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The Wah Report
Where is Home? Right now St. Louis Park, MN
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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Monday, November 17, 2008
riding the sand
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35+ state cyclocross podium
Mikey P - Bronze, Wah - Silver, Dan Casper - Gold 
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Cyclocross race The Westin La Cantera Resort, San Antonio
   Staying at some fancy golf resort...all I can think about is how sweet it would be to do a cyclocross race here...Golf - what a waste of great land and time
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
San Antonio
The Riverwalk was cool...outdoor restaurants along the river. I even got lost trying to find my car...I finally found it after 20 mins of searching. So far I'm not impressed with much, except for the weather. 65 and sunny when I got here.
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Riverwalk
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Luggage is no longer free - 1 bag=$15
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states
              thanks for the great pics SkinnySki
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
Minnesota State Championship Cyclocross Race
The season officially ended for Minnesota today. The course was awesome and pre-riding it, it suited me. Power course with a tricky sand section. I rode the sand a couple of times and couldn't make it. My aero riding position with being in the drops was putting too much weight on the front tire. I tweaked the position and went into the sand really fast with no weight on my hands and put them on the hoods and rolled through it. I did it 10 more times in warm-ups to dial it in. The A race had 40+ guys in it. Everyone comes out for states. I got a horrible start and had to run the sand the 1st time because it was a cluster and then got into a groove and started chasing down the pack. I went from group to group and hooked up with Mikey P and we worked together and got into a group of 4 of us and we hooked up with Super* a few laps later. So we had 3 crossniacs and then the fun started. I attacked a couple of times to try to break up the group because it seemed like the only guys working were the 3 of us. The attacks cracked the group into 4 again and Mikey and I worked over another 35+ guy in the group...he was strong and a serious threat. With 1 lap to go I attacked the group on the stairs and opened a gap and never looked back....I crossed the line and soon after Mikey P rocked the next place. It is so much fun working as a team in cyclocross. I ended up with the silver medal and Mikey P took the bronze in the 35+. Good work. 12th overall for the day. The coolest part of the race was the stairs - there were a few laps when both sides of the stairs were packed with people and they were yelling and drinking beer and chaos...they only left a little bit of room on each side..it was like alp du huez tour de france style...thanks everyone for the encouragement on the course...it really helpsLabels: crossniacs
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Silver medal state championships 35+
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Friday, November 14, 2008
Where the hell is matt?
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
Use Online Public Relations for Link Marketing
Repost from Search Engine Watch Justilien GaspardUse Online Public Relations for Link MarketingBy Justilien Gaspard, Search Engine Watch, Nov 13, 2008People are more likely and willing to link to companies they're familiar with. There's already a certain level of trust. The familiarity and trust factor is one reason knowledgeable, well-established companies obtain natural links in large numbers.How can your company start to increase its familiarity and trust online? As sales slow and employees have more idle time, utilize that time for online public relations. At the very least, it can help sustain sales over the coming months. Once the economy turns around, you'll have a competitive advantage with better links, better brand image, and more traffic.There are a couple approaches to this -- even a few for those petrified of the concept. First, think of this as relationship building. You're developing positive online public relations with people and communities, not just going after links. People should think of your site when a particular product or service is mentioned.For the "very" traditional salespeople who may be resistant to change, explain it as just another form of networking and building relationships. Equate an industry conference to an industry-specific discussion board or forum. Once they see it's all about relationship building, they'll see more sales opportunities than your Internet-savvy newbie.Here are some online public relations strategies to get you started.Answer QuestionsThe easiest and least stressful way to start building a positive image online is by answering questions. Have staff monitor forums, e-mail lists, Q&A sites, and other social sites for questions relating to what your company does. Have your staff give straightforward answers to people's questions and provide additional resources when appropriate. Make sure it's in a non-promotional language.Over time, your company will build a great reputation within those communities. The other members will reward you with links from their blogs and sites. Plus, they might even start recommending your company on the social site!Guest BloggerContact blogs related to your company about being a guest blogger. This is a great way to get in front of a targeted audience, build traffic, and a solid reputation. These blog postings provide a great link, exposure, and a lot of new organic search traffic. Don't forget your local and community newspapers. Many are looking for topic-specific bloggers.This is also a great way for a new site to get organic traffic from search engines while waiting for their own rankings to increase.Write a Column/ArticlesContact newspapers, journals, magazines, industry sites, or other related sites about contributing articles. This is another great way to build links, branding, and traffic at the same time.Instructional VideosPut together different instructional videos covering different topics. Then give them away for free for others to republish -- with a link back, of course. This technique can be combined with the strategy of answering questions for an even bigger impact. When answering the question post a link to the instruction video. For an example read my B2B case study for restaurant equipment.Have your staff boost your online image and develop links during idle time during these down economics times. This will broaden your staff's marketing aptitude and hopefully provide a moral boost. Plus, your sales staff will discover some effective online sales techniques. This can help to sustain sales now and, in the long run, the payoffs will make your competition cringe.Join us for Search Engine Strategies Chicago December 8-12 at the Chicago Hilton. The only major search marketing conference and expo in the Midwest will be packed with 60-plus sessions, multiple keynotes and Orion Strategy sessions, exhibitors, networking events, and more.
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Why I love Twitter
I am going to San Antonio next week and sent out a Tweet asking for "must dos" and "must sees" I got responses from my buddy at Mud and Cowbells and I also got a response from the Executive Producer at KSAT 12 News. Very cool. Both recommended Margaritas down at the River Walk. Bernice recommended going to Boudros to eat and having a prickly pear 'rita.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Favorite Cross Racer = Barry Wicks
He speaks cross from the heartThey say the best way to perfect a skill is to go to where that skill is practiced perfectly. For cyclocross, Belgium is that place......Cyclocross affords a level of intimacy with the athletes that I think is unparalleled in any other sport.I will get there...trust me. I have not forgotten
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Crossniacs
 Wah, Mikey P, Eric....The infamous Hollywood in the backgroundLabels: crossniacs, hollywood cycles
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Mud and Blood Ball on Cycling News
Coverage of the big event on Cycling NewsUS 'cross nationals: new course, survey, film premiereFinally, the four days of racing begins with a decidedly un-black tie event, aptly named the Mud & Blood Ball. A documentary filmed at last year's event will be premiered. The log-line of the film says it, "immerses the viewer in the real feel of hard-core cyclo-cross racing in extreme weather conditions, including driving snow, mud, ice and frozen mud."Labels: mud and blood ball
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Cyclocross Nationals Course Preview
If it stays dry...it will suit meLabels: cyclocross, cyclocross nationals
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Monday, November 10, 2008
Bronze in cyclocross rider of the year 35+ Crossniacs top team
Even better is getting 5 crossniacs in the top 101. Dewey Dickey MBRC/Flanders 2. Daniel Casper GrandStay Hotels 3. Jared Roy Crossniacs 4. John Struchynski Great Plains Cycling 5. CJ Faulkner Crossniacs 6. Guy Alvarez Crossniacs 7. Oliver Vrambout The Bikery 8. Peter Maxwell Crossniacs 9. Jay Henderson Hollywood Cycles 10. Mike Phillips CrossniacsEven better then that is winning the top team for 35+1. Crossniacs 2. MBRC/Flanders 3. GrandStay Hotels 4. Great Plains Cycling 5. The Bikery 6. Hollywood Cycles 7. Bianchi/Grand Performance 8. Specialized 9. FCCC 10. Hup UnitedLabels: crossniacs, cyclocross
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The 10 Trends Shaping the Future of B2B Marketing
Jennifer HowardHead of B2B MarketsGoogle21-October-2008
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Crossniacs Team
 Having teammates in a cross race is a rare treat.
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Sunday, November 09, 2008
$40 Grand Performace gift certificate
1st interesting trade gets it.
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Lake Rebecca A race podium top step
        Buy them from Frank RoweThis race is usually a full-on roadie course with a ton of double track and dirt roads...today changed the race completely. It was full-on muddy and dicey..in spots were you could usually rail it, you had to hold on tight or get thrown into a tree from loosing control in the mud. I got a good start and hit the first climb and the tires totally sucked today..the Challenge Grifos are not a good mud tire. I spun out on the climb and had to run it 1/2 way every lap...I was rolling solo for a couple laps, which totally sucks and then I caught John from Great Plains and the race was on. He would gap me on the hill because he could ride it and I would chase like mad through the muddy corners and catch back on...with 1 lap to go I attacked before the climb and he caught me on the climb and I chased again and attacked him on the next climb and was gone...I caught Little Guy by surprise and then caught his teammate Jake by surprise..Jake road smart and came off my wheel for the sprint.. I ended up 8th overall and 1st in 35+. Huge thanks to JimmerC for giving me his sunglasses after lap 2. The mud was flying everywhere and riding wheels with mud kickin in your eyes is painful. I asked Jimmer for some glasses and on the next lap...there they were, right off his head. Thanks again. What do you recommend for a good tubular in mud?Labels: crossniacs, cyclocross
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VeloCX Pics - Frank Rowe killed it with his photography
        Buy them from Frank RoweLabels: crossniacs, cyclocross
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Lake rebecca cyclocross, 1st place 35+
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Crossy.........brrrrrrr
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VeloCX - Cross season is here
32 cold and wet....it was fun racing up at the velodrome...the course was twisty, turny, off-camber crossy...the field was bigger because it was "in town". I got a great start, sitting in 4th, but the fast guys went by soon after and I waited for my legs to open up...it took awhile. I finally got into a group with 3 crossniacs: CJ, Guy and myself. It was cool riding together and taking turns on the front. We were then caught by Paul (45+ superstar)....We sent CJ off the front, but Paul quickly chased it down and threw down some crazy speed breaking up our group. Guy was cracked and I chased...CJ, Paul and I were now in a group and in the off-camber section CJ and Paul "rubbed" and CJ went down..I hopped on Paul's wheel and held on - he was flying. We caught Jake from Specialized and the laps counted down. 1/2 lap to go and I was ready for a sprint finish...but I made a mistake and clipped a barrier with my front wheel and the gap opened and I couldn't close it. I ended up 5th in 35+, 15th overall. 2 more races left in MN. Cool pics of the race at BikeThrow from Frye
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Friday, November 07, 2008
just finished 14th place in World Series of Poker seat event on www.zosoz.com
ZOSOZLabels: online poker, zosoz
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Shock and Ow made some turns today
@copperMissing Colorado today...can't do anything in the nonsense snow we get in MN
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The medium rewards authenticity
what do you believe more? A TV ad or an influencer on the web? Think about it and put your marketing dollars to the medium that has more authenticity.
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Thursday, November 06, 2008
Web 2.0 Summit 08: Mary Meeker (Morgan Stanley), High Order Bit
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Please pre-register for the Mud and Blood Ball
In order for us to provide enough beer and food, we are encouraging people to pre-register for the event.Those that pre-register will be given a raffle ticket for great swag (cross frames, t-shirts, posters, etc...)And a sweet musette bag with SWAG. Pre-RegisterLabels: crossniacs, cyclocross nationals, mud and blood ball
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
what's your wordle
Wordle
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chip timing for cyclocross
Red BarnMy times494 - Jared Roy - Masters 35+Time of Day Lap LeadLap Lap Tm Speed13:11:45.5 1 1 6:31.899 16.53513:18:16.9 2 2 6:31.376 16.55713:24:50.8 3 3 6:33.926 16.45013:31:26.4 4 4 6:35.543 16.38313:38:00.4 5 5 6:34.087 16.44313:44:36.0 6 6 6:35.570 16.38113:51:11.9 7 7 6:35.861 16.36913:57:47.4 8 8 6:35.525 16.38314:04:23.5 9 9 6:36.129 16.35814:11:06.3 10 10 6:42.816 16.087Winner482 - Duane Dickey - Men CX 1&2Time of Day Lap LeadLap Lap Tm Speed13:11:52.1 1 1 6:37.488 16.30213:18:17.4 2 2 6:25.258 16.82013:24:35.3 3 3 6:17.902 17.14713:31:00.6 4 4 6:25.294 16.81813:37:17.0 5 5 6:16.453 17.21313:43:38.8 6 6 6:21.783 16.97313:49:52.6 7 7 6:13.850 17.33313:56:08.7 8 8 6:16.039 17.23214:02:21.7 9 9 6:12.997 17.37314:08:52.6 10 10 6:30.900 16.577
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Bloggers More Influential Than Friends for Purchase Decisions
re-blogging Social Times« The Future of Twitter: The Public Conversation BackboneSNAP Summit 3 Streaming Live »Bloggers More Influential Than Friends for Purchase DecisionsPosted by Nick O'Neill on October 28th, 2008 10:46 AMAccording to a new study published by BuzzLogic, “consumer purchases are more likely to be influenced by bloggers’ recommendations than what friends or other members of their social networks tout.” Does that mean game over for social shopping? Not really but it does suggest that including blogger recommendations into social shopping sites may not be such a bad idea.Another interesting finding of the reports was that “blogs are becoming trusted guides, steering users who are seeking very specific information to places of interest online”, according to Rob Crumpler, CEO of BuzzLogic. Unfortunately the study didn’t provide much insight as to what sort of influence peers have on social networks as BuzzLogic doesn’t appear to have much data on that issue.Honestly, aside from the article title there was little data to backup the claim that blogs are more influential. There was a ton of data suggesting that blogs have substantial influence though. Technology blogs are the most influential for purchase decisions, followed by media and entertainment, games/toys/sporting goods, travel, and automotive.Apparently ads on blogs were also on par with sponsored search results. If you want to advertise then, feel free to contact us! Seriously though, there is very little data supporting the argument that blogs are more influential than friends for purchase decisions. The one thing that the study suggested was that avid blog readers are more influence by blogs then by friends. I’m not sure that is really all that surprising.It would be interesting to see data on purchase decisions based on the recommendations of friends within social networks. Do you find blogs or your friends to be more influential? Have you made any purchase decisions based on the recommendations of either?
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Thanks Nick
 Sweet trade
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Rum River CX Pics
         Stolen from SkinnySki and Frank
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ZOSOZ college campaign
   Sign up www.zosoz.comLabels: zosoz
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Mid Cross Season Massage
Wow! legs totally needed it...this should hopefully "refresh" me for the final push.
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An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
1. Allow events to change you.You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them. 2. Forget about good.Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you'll never have real growth. 3. Process is more important than outcome.When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there. 4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child).Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day. 5. Go deep.The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value. 6. Capture accidents.The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions. 7. Study.A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit. 8. Drift.Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism. 9. Begin anywhere.John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere. 10. Everyone is a leader.Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead. 11. Harvest ideas.Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications. 12. Keep moving.The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice. 13. Slow down.Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves. 14. Don’t be cool.Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort. 15. Ask stupid questions.Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant. 16. Collaborate.The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential. 17. ____________________.Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others. 18. Stay up late.Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world. 19. Work the metaphor.Every object has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent. Work on what it stands for. 20. Be careful to take risks.Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future. 21. Repeat yourself.If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again. 22. Make your own tools.Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference. 23. Stand on someone’s shoulders.You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better. 24. Avoid software.The problem with software is that everyone has it. 25. Don’t clean your desk.You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight. 26. Don’t enter awards competitions.Just don’t. It’s not good for you. 27. Read only left-hand pages.Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of information, we leave room for what he called our "noodle." 28. Make new words.Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions. 29. Think with your mind.Forget technology. Creativity is not device-dependent. 30. Organization = Liberty.Real innovation in design, or any other field, happens in context. That context is usually some form of cooperatively managed enterprise. Frank Gehry, for instance, is only able to realize Bilbao because his studio can deliver it on budget. The myth of a split between "creatives" and "suits" is what Leonard Cohen calls a 'charming artifact of the past.' 31. Don’t borrow money.Once again, Frank Gehry’s advice. By maintaining financial control, we maintain creative control. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s surprising how hard it is to maintain this discipline, and how many have failed. 32. Listen carefully.Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details and the subtlety of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own. Neither party will ever be the same. 33. Take field trips.The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment. 34. Make mistakes faster.This isn’t my idea -- I borrowed it. I think it belongs to Andy Grove. 35. Imitate.Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. We have only to look to Richard Hamilton and his version of Marcel Duchamp’s large glass to see how rich, discredited, and underused imitation is as a technique. 36. Scat.When you forget the words, do what Ella did: make up something else ... but not words. 37. Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it. 38. Explore the other edge.Great liberty exists when we avoid trying to run with the technological pack. We can’t find the leading edge because it’s trampled underfoot. Try using old-tech equipment made obsolete by an economic cycle but still rich with potential. 39. Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms.Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces -- what Dr. Seuss calls "the waiting place." Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference -- the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals — but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations. 40. Avoid fields.Jump fences. Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields. 41. Laugh.People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I've become aware of this, I use it as a barometer of how comfortably we are expressing ourselves. 42. Remember.Growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and, as such, a potential for growth itself. 43. Power to the people.Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can't be free agents if we’re not free.
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Stephane, Peggy's dance partner from back in the day, was in town taking a seminar on Z-Health. He put me through a series of nervous system exercises last night. They were really easy to do, focusing on the nervous system. When he was done, I felt about 2 inches taller and was standing up straight, not the cyclist hunch back. When I went to bed last night, something felt strange. I finally figured it out. My lower back didn't hurt. Every night I go to bed I struggle to find a way to lay so that my lower back doesn't hurt. The exercises released something in me and the back pain went away for the night.I'm going to be trying some new "smarter" training methods next season. Stephane is convinced that I will be faster, but all I care about is riding without pain.
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