It’s Memorial Day Weekend So That Means…Vermont!
The Killington Stage Race is where it all began for me 12 years ago. At least as it relates to my ongoing habit of cycling. This is the third year of the rebirth of KSR which went bankrupt after the 2000 edition. Gary Kessler who created the Green Mountain Stage Race-also in Vermont-that took the calendar spot of labor Day weekend previously held by KSR, brought Killington back to life in 2010 moving it to Memorial Day Weekend.
This year I’m playing soigneur for a couple friends from the Foundation Cycling Team in NYC.
We get to the condo late afternoon Friday. The boys did recon on the Stage 2 time trial course while I made dinner. A little roast chicken, potatoes, and kale salad.
Stage 1 post race coca-cola photo. Why is Alex smiling?
This might explain it. Second place on the stage to Dylan M. One race, one podium. Not bad for only two teammates. The Mount Borah guy took third and seems quite happy about it in light of his large grin.
But one must always be careful of your hand placement when on lower podium steps come picture time.
The next frame clearly shows the pro side of podium behavior. Hand clearly a little higher on the back. Dylan M. isn’t phased at all. Alex remains stoic.
No Title Seemed Worthy
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…oh, and haha.
I’m probably being too hard on the CIA dupe / billionaire poster boy since none of this is his doing but I couldn’t think of any sort of image to symbolize the BIGGEST WASTE OF TIME otherwise known as Facebook. Fascinating to watch the presumed smartest guys in the room lose their asses in these early days of the grand puba of all IPO’s. Were these guys and gals not around during the late 90’s? Haven’t we done this all before? A supposed boy wonder flops out a website and starts up a company that produces nothing and really has no answer to the question of what the hell they do or who wants to buy whatever that is and for what price. The Banksters come around, the thing goes public and boy wonder is a billionaire while various parties win or lose in the stock scrum. How many little Zuckerbergs did just that in the internet frenzy then cashed out and just walked away with a mountain of cash for nothing?
Mark, get out while you can. Data mining cannot be that much fun.
The only thing that could make this better is if Goldman had underwritten the thing instead of MorganStanley.
Criminal. Episode 3
I haven’t written much in a while but file this one under a big “see, I told you so”.
For those of you who don’t immediately recognize this virus with legs, it is none other than Jamie Dimon, CEO of the criminal institution that calls itself JP Morgan, or as ZeroHedge says “the world’s largest prop trading desk”.
Funny thing happened today. They lost their ass to the tune of around $2 billion with the chance that it becomes $20 billion in short time. Funny thing is I think I remember this douchebag taking around $25 billion from taxpayers in unconstitutional, illegal bailouts a few years back.
There was no mention of JP’s silver market trouble. It would be amusing if that unfolded at the same time.
Here is the full conference call during which Dimon does the mea culpa. Sort of.
The link takes you to ZeroHedge. They predicted this.
There will be more to come. Citi anyone? Bank of America? Just a matter of time.
More Evie from Fleche Wallone
Anyone who doesn’t think her story is amazing is an idiot. You can’t write fiction like this. Having been there in Massachusetts (Tour of The Hilltowns) and Vermont (Green Mountain Stage Race) and watched it unfold in person, I can attest to the Bicycling Mag story linked above as being accurate. It really was that fucking incredible.
Art Imitates Life Or Something Like That
This Saturday I’ll race my bike for the first time this season. It will be the latest start to a season I’ve had since I began racing twelve years ago. I am horribly unprepared. Under trained. Over weight. Still searching for motivation. But my bike is still pretty and she wants to go out on the town. So I will set the alarm for 4am Saturday-or something ridiculous like that-in order to make the even more absurd 6:15 start time and roll over to lovely Prospect Park in Brooklyn to ride around in circles for about two hours. Hopefully I will not embarrass myself or my team.
I will attempt to be as cool or at least look as cool as this guy.
There are not too many humans. There are too many stupid humans.
Never Doubt Me, Part 2
Okay so I said she’d win a World Cup race in 2010 but you had to know this was coming.
Local here Evelyn Stevens conquers the Mur and wins Fleche for her first World Cup.
And in the other race Joachim Rodriguez moves up a podium step to claim his first Fleche Wallone. The “other guy” from Belgium Phillipe Gilbert was 3rd. I wouldn’t write him off just yet.
“Reblog” from Bonedeth
This is a screen shot of my friend’s blog. The same kid that raced his way from a cat 5 bike messenger to cat 1. See that here.
Most important is to note the words used. The word stop is used rather that quit. Because as we all know nobody likes a quitter
To Further Cement The Point
I took a bit off from this thing but could not resist posting a little video I came across recently. It is a perfect follow to Higg’s essay in my last post.
Yes, I know, it’s nine whole minutes. Watch it anyway. Are you the alien or the human?
