Place this one in your WTF file. After all of my hard-charging sprints in the TNWC criteriums, I had more or less convinced myself that I was a sprinter and hilly road races are not my thing. So today, when I raced the Union Vale Road Race, with its absolutely wicked final climb (a steady [...]
Archive for June, 2008
I’m a … Climber?
Posted in Books on June 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I Did It Again
Posted in cycling on June 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Tuesday Night World Championships. After forcing another rider off the wheel I wanted to follow, I found a great spot in Pawling’s leadout train. At the final sprint, I seriously detonated. As I approached the finish line, I was still accelerating and still pulling away from everyone else. It was the fastest sprint I’ve done [...]
New Book Alert
Posted in Books on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Because I couldn’t deal with London any more, and because I had to go out anyway to buy notebooks, dividers, and other stupid things for my tenure packet, I decided to stop by the local Borders to see what might tempt me.
I had read the New York Times review of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, [...]
London Defeat
Posted in Books on June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have had Edward Rutherfurd’s London sitting on my shelves since I picked it up last summer at one of the many library used book sales I attended. It looked like an interesting read, a good sweeping historical novel with a lot of fascinating information about this most fascinating of cities. I finally decided to [...]
Housatonic Pain
Posted in cycling on June 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday was the Housatonic Hills Road Race, the one race a year that I absolutely have to do, and the one race a year that I absolutely dread. It is a very hard, very popular race, and usually very hot race that promises to turn even the most dedicated cyclist into a whimpering, wobbling pile [...]
Nancy Drew by Joseph Conrad
Posted in Books on June 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just finished Beat not the Bones by Charlotte Jay for my mystery book club, and I am not entirely sure how to write about it. It was an interesting story and Jay’s prose is beautifully clear. My confusion arises from a strange sense of opacity the novel left me with: much of the narrative [...]
First First
Posted in cycling on June 10, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I have been waiting to use this post title for years. I took my first first place in a bike race tonight at the Tuesday Night World Championships.
Tonight’s race was a straight race–no points, so there was only one sprint at the end. Usually, I’m not as good at this kind of race, [...]
Catch Up
Posted in Books, cycling on June 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have been quite busy lately, and my blogging has suffered as a result, so I’m going to take the easy way out and provide a quick update list to clear out the in-box. Not that I am anywhere near to being organized enough to have a real in-box.
I finished my article on Rachel Carson [...]
Two Race Reports for the Cost of One!
Posted in cycling on June 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today the Connecticut Coast Cycling team held its second annual criterium right here in my home town. The race was at the same location of the big spring series and the all-important Tuesday Night World Championships. (Please imagine that last all in bold, with flashing neon lights and dramatic music.) We have been quite lucky [...]
