Busy, busy, busy. Having three stage races going on simultaneously blows the meat whistle. Not as much as Rep. Joe Wilson (R-Dipshit), but it’s right up there. No lie.
Happily, the Vuelta a España was on a rest day, so it was fairly light duty today, with only the Tour de l’Avenir and the Tour of Missouri to follow. I even got out for a nice hike and saw that we’re getting a little color in the foliage around here. Leaves in the gutters. Still warm enough for shorts and a wife-beater, but not for much longer.
I lived in Springfield briefly during the summer of ’72, but I had forgotten how hilly those Missouri roads can be. This may be because I spent more time walking or hitchhiking than cycling. Finally I hitchhiked right the hell out of there, taking the scenic route east to St. Louis, west to Kansas City and north to Iowa Falls, Iowa, before catching one last lift back to Colorado with a friend of a friend.
Tomorrow it’s back in the trenches with VeloNews.com for all three races. Plus there’s a cartoon needs drawing for VeloNews (Dead Tree Edition). I’d hitchhike right the hell out of here and dodge the whole deal, but I had enough trouble getting rides when I was young and pretty, and I’m too old to be that broke.
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Ah, fall. The time of year when you are glad that it isn’t 105 degrees in the shade AND 30 degrees in the sun. And cross season is just round the bend. But that will change soon enough. NorCal has the second race of the ‘season’ this Saturday. Ah, fall.
“Shorts and a wife beater”???
Whew…where did you pick up that slang for a Dago Tee?
What, no chapeau for Dave Z?