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Balderdash for April 9, 2010

Written on 9 Apr, 2010 at 0:57 in Featured, Opinion | 0 Comments
Balderdash for April 9, 2010

AND JUST LIKE THAT it’s time for Week 6 of NYC racing and the Tour of the Battenkill. It’s the kid in me who wants to go do this race, the B-kill. It’s going to be painful and a shock to the system after just 60- and 90-minute city races. There’s lots of climbing and [...]

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Balderdash for April 2, 2010

Written on 2 Apr, 2010 at 11:55 in Featured, Opinion, Race Reports | 0 Comments
Balderdash for April 2, 2010

NYC race weekend No. 5 coming up. So who’s foregoing Easter with the family to race both days? Or can you swing both and hang with the peeps and eat Peeps? Me, no, I can’t, so I will loiter in Prospect Park with my Cat. 3/4 brethren Saturday and skip Sunday, when I’ll venture to [...]

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Balderdash for 3-26-10

Written on 26 Mar, 2010 at 8:23 in Featured, Opinion | 1 Comment
Balderdash for 3-26-10

On tap: Week 4 of NYC racing, just like that. Time’s flying. Me, not so much. I’ve had a mediocre week: took off Sunday and Monday, then had so-so rides Tuesday through today. The last two days I’ve been fighting what I think is a stomach bug and didn’t feel so hot doing my intervals [...]

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Top 10 signs you’re a Cat. 4

Written on 22 Mar, 2010 at 23:42 in Featured, Opinion | 3 Comments
Top 10 signs you’re a Cat. 4

10. Sketchy start, middle, end. 9. Charlie announces that every lap there will be a prime for 25 Weight Watchers points. 8. The guy riding in front of you on the Cervelo with Zipp 303s has hairier legs than your Uncle Lou. 7. Your chances of landing a pro contract are the same as upgrading [...]

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I’m obsessed with: Juan Antonio Flecha

Written on 16 Mar, 2010 at 18:08 in Featured, Opinion | 0 Comments
I’m obsessed with: Juan Antonio Flecha

ON SATURDAY, February 27, I was skiing in the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts. Still, I was dimly aware that some 3,500 miles east of me the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad was getting underway in Gent, Belgium. The race that used to be called Het Volk (Het Volk and Het Nieuwsblad were once competing Flemish newspapers, until [...]

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Proification of the New York City peloton

Written on 22 Feb, 2010 at 18:53 in Opinion | 0 Comments

With the 2010 race season bearing down on us, it’s time to address something that’s been bugging for me the last few years. The creeping proification of the New York City peloton. That’s right. Proification. What do I mean? I will explain. When I think back to my first days racing, in 2003, it was [...]

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Calling cycling reporters, writers, and photographers

Written on 28 Sep, 2009 at 16:11 in Interviews, News, Opinion, Photos, Race Reports, Training | 0 Comments
Photo by Fotoreporter Sirotti

CyclingReporter.com, a new Web site that covers a slice of the bike racing scene in the New York City area and beyond through race reports, photographs, and articles, is looking for reporters, writers, and photographers. Want to share your last race experience with a growing audience of passionate bike racers? Do you take pictures at [...]

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Battle for Brooklyn Bridge continues

Written on 27 Sep, 2009 at 21:20 in Opinion | 0 Comments
Battle for Brooklyn Bridge continues

An opinion piece appeared this weekend in the New York Times about the ongoing (tiresome) beef between cyclists and pedestrians as they (some anyway) try to avoid killing each other on the Brooklyn Bridge (and elsewhere in the city). I don’t have to ride to Manhattan much, but every time I do it’s over the [...]

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