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The start of another beautiful day.
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Paris-Roubaix 2012
A 50k plus solo breakway to victory? Tom Boonen did just that!
Boonen collected his fourth Paris-Roubaix win equalling Roger De Vlaeminck’s record.
Stuff of legends…
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2 more days until…
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We hadn’t spoken to each other in hours.
It had been pouring rain all day, turning the dirt roads of Battenkill into mud and putting us all into a dark and quiet place. There are times when it’s not fun, the times when you can’t feel your hands, your legs are screaming and you are not anywhere near done. There are moments when saliva mixes with vomit and you try, try not to lose that wheel in front of you, the one that is inching forward, forward, forward away from you.
But what can you do? You shake your hands out to get the blood back in them, you get in the drops and back onto that fucking wheel and you let the suffering of the day knock against you like waves. You do this and most importantly tell yourself, “this is worth it”.
Sometimes people ask me what I think about when I am on the bike for that long and the truth is I don’t know. I guess it depends. On a day like this you think about the pain, you think about your heros and imagine themselves tempering themselves in the rain and the mud. You think about love in the form of your riding partners not making fun of you when you can’t lift your head. Shit, you think about cheeseburgers and girls, anything to take you out of the horror that you are currently living, but then even on the darkest days sometimes you think about how beautiful it is.
You lick your lips, crunching the dirt that was on your face, look down at your quivering legs and laugh because it really is beautiful. You keep your head down and attack one more time because when you think about this ride in 10 years (and you will) you want to remember that you didn’t let the darkness win, if only for a moment you didn’t let it win.
(via iaminlikewithmybike)
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How the world of 1950 looked in 1925: infographic
Airships above you, cars below ground; clean pedestrianised streets, beautiful elegant high-rise living… how exotic the far-off year of 1950 must have seemed to readers of Popular Science Monthly in 1925, when the infographic below was published. Rediscovered by the wonderful Retronaut (Slogan: “the past is a foreign country. This is your passport”) it probably says more about 1925 than it does about 1950.
via guardian
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This image sums up my race day better than any words could. The only thing missing is the snow storm that hit us a little later in the race.
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march 4, Banana Belt 1. We raced like cat 4 amateurs. Oh wait, that is because we are. Spent too much time chasing escape group. No one else seems motivated to bring them back into the group. Ended up racing for 3rd, finished 7th. Nothing left at finish line.
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feb 19, 1st road race of the season. photo taken on top of palestine ave hill approaching the finish line. finished first. dying for oxygen. nice to start the season with a win.
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