Another fine reader email: From: Brice Subject: Emailing: F…FB.jpg Jonny, I realize that this is the same stale old story that has been around since the first 24 hr. race was conceived. The loudest, and in this case fattest, most enthusiastic friend who said he would “train hard all year,” bails on the team days [...]
Team Fat Bastard Bailed
You own a car, not the road.
The lunch post – Pad Thai #3 w/ deep fried tofu. Bangin’. All that and a pic. Good times. Well said, sister.
Back in the saddle, missing the floor.
Been down so long, it looks like up to me. I just pulled down 351 new emails. I guess Daddy’s been a bit absent of late. And he has his work cut out for him. I may never dig my way up out of this hole. Link dump: [skids hurt children] youtube.com [blogness] snakehawk.blogspot.com [blogness] [...]
I’m about to go pro.
I’m back in the bike shop. Maybe I never really left. Maybe it’s better this way. I woman came in today, one of the rudest short stack Phoenix Princess’s I’ve ever had the bad luck to run across. And I’m the middle of quite a spell of bad luck. I showed her our cheapest mountain [...]
Dan McGehee takes the UMCA 100 mile World Record
This just in: From: Marty Subject: DAMAGE! Newsflash – RideClean Team member Dan McGehee RE-broke the UMCA 100 mile World Record October 6, 2007 in Kaneville, Illinois, by beating the existing mark of 4:01 set by Marko Baloh. Dan cranked out a 3:56:03 !!!!!! Details will follow, and the UMCA has yet to certify the [...]
Compare your lives to mine…
…then kill yourselves. I recently came across a deal that was too good to be true. The On-One Superlight Carbon 29′er fork was on sale. I had been considering this fork for a while, but the exchange rate from Pounds Sterling to U.S. Dollars is something like waking up next to the fat ugly wingman [...]
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Track goddess Marion Jones — surprise surprise — has copped to using performance-enhancing drugs, according to a story in The Washington Post. She won five medals in the 2000 Olympics, three of them gold, and according to the AP “was one of track’s first female millionaires, typically earning between $70,000 and $80,000 a race, plus [...]
The Cougar Habitat
It is, after all, the Year of the Cougar. Let’s be careful out there, boys. This shit is serious.
Where there’s sport, there’s drugs.
Latest Drug Crackdown Could Expose Some Athletes A complete list of buyers who received steroids, human growth hormone or other performance-enhancing drugs from a drug-trafficking network uncovered by federal investigators this week could take months to compile, federal agents involved in the crackdown said yesterday. At this point, it is too early to rule out [...]