got the 2010 usa cycling license the other day,
one hour on the trainer yesterday while watching the 2004 l'alpe duez time trial
aiming for two hours today to "hell on wheels"

tdfebruary

My friend Dave alerted me that one can get past Tour de France dvds from netflix. I find this to be pretty awesome. It's hard to convince people that watching a bike race can be fun and captivating. Each race has it own intense story arc which folds into the greater story of the tour. Which of course works its way into the soap opera season.
This argument can translate to most any sport which likens following professional cycling to following NASCAR or professional wrestling. What makes it so easy to get wrapped up in the back and forth teenage soap opera acts of attrition and verbal disputes between sprinters or the one man against the elements soliloquies of the the lone climbers ? the search for individual perfection through vicarious sources? Does the need for a reason matter? No, but its good to know I can watch tdf all year long if I wanted to...
Dave for example watches the old races while riding his indoor trainer. Off season training for cyclists is probably one of the most masturbatory activities one can partake. Faced with my first season of actually having a UCI license I am yet to start training for any road season. Though I should be.. While those like dave and many of my other cylcing compadres have been logging long hours on the trainer to tdf videos or movies or whatever scheme they can come up with to pass the inanity of stationary bike riding, I have been eating pizza and chicken fingers and making lists of what I should do to get ready for cycling and then usually falling asleep.
its cold and dreary
i know that once I start riding I'll be glad that I did.. its just getting over that first bump

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