Kansas was just named the state with the best roads of all states in the United States (by Reader’s Digest). If that is truly the case, then we’re all in trouble. Our roads suck.
It’s a fine line between being too busy and bored.
Spring is a state of mind more than a temperature.
Note to [...]

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Eddy Mercx has won the Milano-San Remo 7 times.

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The first day of Spring is Sunday. It is supposed to snow 8″ tonight and tomorrow here in Topeka. Yesterday was pretty nice. I got in 4 hours, meeting up with the guys from Lawrence. Bill and I got out pretty early today. It was in the mid 50’s. [...]

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KU is ranked #1 going into the NCAA tournament. They were ranked #1 preseason and ended the season in the same position. They play tonight at 8:40. Don’t even think of bugging me from 8:40 to whenever. Below is Obama’s bracket. He picked North Carolina last year to [...]

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I’ve noticed that the officiating is done more and more by officials that have never raced bicycles. “In the old days”, most of the officials were bike racers themselves or had raced bicycles. Or, better yet, we had Event Services, where Brian Drebber and Gypsy (Fred Patton) pretty much ran the whole show. [...]

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Yesterday, Cyclingnews wrote a article about one of the Polish brothers, that I posted about a couple days ago, tried to commit suicide. I felt pretty shitty. I was thinking, “is there even a remote chance he saw my posting and that affected his decision?” Almost impossible, but that was my [...]

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Well, that is over. I wasn’t really looking forward to racing 80+ miles in moderately cold weather. But, I needed to.
Hell’s Kitchen Road Race is 4 laps of a 20.3 mile course down in Hogeye, Arkansas (suburb of Fayetteville). It is adjacent to the Hogeye Circuit Race at the [...]

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Hell’s Kitchen is over. We’re half way back to Topeka already. Things went pretty good. 1st, 2nd & 5th. The hill was harder and easier than I remember. Update more later.
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Driving down to Fayetteville Arkansas for the Hell’s Kitchen Road Race. It’s got a pretty big hill. Something close to 2 miles long and pretty steep (20%) in places. The weather isn’t great anywhere in the Midwest. Like Paris-Nice and Tirreno it’s going to be really cold when the race starts [...]

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