Monthly Archives: January 2011

Weather Reprieve/Kansas’ Birthday

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Kansas got a reprieve of the winter weather the last couple days. It was over 50 yesterday and is supposed to be nearly 45 today. Then back into the 20’s and less. It’s supposed to snow 8 inches again on Tuesday. We going out for a long ride today at our house at noon. I assume I’m going to be on the front most, if not all the day. That’s okay.

Anyone watch the junior or U23 Cyclo-X Worlds this morning? The last lap of the U23 race was pretty great. This early morning curse from jet lag finally paid off this morning. Tomorrow the racing starts at the wee hours tomorrow morning. I’ll post links later.

Today is Kansas Day. It’s an important one. Kansas has been a state 150 years today. It is weird to think that I’ve been alive nearly 1/3 the time that the State of Kansas has been a state. It is kind of disconcerting.

On top of all that, KU plays K-State tonight at KU in basketball. It’s only fitting that the big instate rivalry in NCAA basketball takes place tonight on Kansas’ birthday.

World Cyclo-X Championships St. Wendel, Germany Live Tomorrow Morning – Links

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The World Championships are in St. Wendel tomorrow morning. There are lots of choices for viewing the races live. The only problem is that it is really early. Like 4 am (CST) early for the women’s race, which KFC (Katie Fuckin’ Compton) should finally win. The men’s race doesn’t start until 7 am midwest time. Great. From watching the races this morning, the women’s race is probably going to be pretty slick and then it might get a bit muddier for the men’s race later in the afternoon.

Trudi just finished the BMC camp in Valencia and is driving a team car back up to Belgium before heading off to Qatar. She decided to take a small deviation out of the way and go watch the race live. I think she is driving until 2 am this morning to make it up to Germany tonight. I maybe should have just stayed the extra week in Europe, but all I wanted to do was leave, so that is what I did. Maybe that wasn’t the best decision, but you know how that goes.

So, here are the links in case I don’t get up for the early races. You can watch it on Belgium TV at this website. Or Cyclingfans.com has links to watch it too. I don’t think there is commentary in English. You’ll probably have to listen to Dutch or Flemish, but that is cool.

It should be a good race. It would be great to see Tim Johnson and/or Jeromy Powers (here’s a link to an good interview with him before the race) anywhere in the top 15. I’m hoping Nys wins, but thinking Albert. I’d be mildly shocked if it wasn’t a Belgian standing on the top of the podium when all is said and done. But, it is a race.