#30DaysOfContent Day 5

#30DaysOfContent
Day 5
No introspection tonight.  No dep thoughts.
Just this.
Tomorrow is State Criterium Championships.
I intend to race.  I do not intend to win.  I intend to stay in the field, pack surf well and then if it comes down to a sprint, be there for it.
In my humble opinion, a State Criterium Championship should in some way reward technical skll in bicycling.  It should require both left and right turns.  Preferrably with both linked together, even more so if the linking of these turns is such that pedalling in between is impractical at best.
A rectangle around a city park is more of a very short circuit race in this one racer’s opinion.
One of my favorite single issues of a bike magazine was the June 1988 issue of Bicycle Guide.  The “Special Issue” on “The Essence of Cycling”.
30 Pages of CONTENT.
Pages and pages of writing.  Individual articles on:
On the inside. (the sport that is)
On the outside.
The road not taken.
From road to mud.
Hillclimbs.
Descents.
Paceline.
Time trial.
In that 30 pages of ads, there were a sum total of 5 ads.  There were no articles on how to descent faster.  No pacing tips for time trials.  No coaching plans for how to do well at your next hillclimb.
Just fabulous writing on the JOYS of each of these aspects of the sport of cycling.  Perhaps I will have to post these soon in the future.  The writing is excellent.  It makes you want the sun to come out and go ride.
But for today, I leave you with Ted Costantino’s opening sentence from “Descents”
“
I have passed through some small percentage of the world’s great scenery in full  tuck.
“
Brilliant.
-g

#30DaysOfContent

Day 5

No introspection tonight.  No deep thoughts.

Just this.

Tomorrow is State Criterium Championships.

I intend to race.  I do not intend to win.  I intend to stay in the field, pack surf well and then if it comes down to a sprint, be there for it.

In my humble opinion, a State Criterium Championship should in some way reward technical skill in bicycling.  It should require both left and right turns.  Preferably with both linked together, even more so if the linking of these turns is such that pedalling in between is impractical at best.

A rectangle around a city park is more of a very short circuit race in this one racer’s opinion.

One of my favorite single issues of a bike magazine was the June 1988 issue of Bicycle Guide.  The “Special Issue” on “The Essence of Cycling”.

30 Pages of CONTENT.

Pages and pages of writing.  Individual articles on:

On the inside. (the sport that is)

On the outside.

The road not taken.

From road to mud.

Hillclimbs.

Descents.

Paceline.

Time trial.

In that 30 pages of writing and fabulous photography, there were a sum total of 5 ads.  There were no articles on how to descent faster.  No pacing tips for time trials.  No coaching plans for how to do well at your next hillclimb.

Just fabulous writing on the JOYS of each of these aspects of the sport of cycling.  Perhaps I will have to post these soon in the future.  The writing is excellent.  It makes you want the sun to come out and go ride.

But for today, I leave you with Ted Costantino’s opening sentence from “Descents”

”

I have passed through some small percentage of the world’s great scenery in full  tuck.

”

Brilliant.

-g

| May 7th, 2010 | Posted in 30DaysOfContent |

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