Giro d’Italia 2012 | Stage 7
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On cycling. (via somethingchanged)
While I appreciate the sentiment of this piece, I don’t actually agree with it. I only find one frequent state at which I am completely focused on cycling, and that is in a race. At that point, I am focussing on where everyone else is, who looks strong, when the next move is going to go.
Before a race, after a race, on training rides, commuting, all of those times I am thinking. It’s not usually deep. It’ll often be the last song I heard that I liked (Tigers and Sharks by You Me At Six) or something I hated (Call me maybe), thinking about how I should have trained harder, about mistakes I made in the last race, about who is beating me on what Strava segments, what bike bits I want to buy next (hello Rapha) and more.
The only other time I really clean out my mind is at the very opposite point from this quote. It’s hill climbing. I suck at doing hills on a bike, but it takes all of my concentration to make sure my heart rate isn’t going too high, I’ve got my breathing reasonably under control, I’m not burning myself out too early, remembering what the gradient is around the next bend and preparing myself for it. This really only comes in for climbs that are longer than 3km or steeper than about 8%, too. And even then, as soon as things start to go a bit astray the world creeps back in.
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From his morning-time perch above the southbound lanes of Highway 85 in Monterrey, Mexico, photographer Alejandro Cartagena catches images of people on their way to work.
this is beautiful.
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Volta ao Algarve 2012
Overall win for Richie Porte, stage win for Bradley Wiggins, and a stage win and the points jersey for Edvald Boasson Hagen. The Team Sky tour team is shaping up nicely.
Photo: © José António Fernandes (via Volta Ao Algarve 2012: Wiggins, Porte And Boasson Hagen On The Podium, Photos | Cyclingnews.com)
A good reminder of just how freaking tiny Richie Porte is, I mean he makes Wiggo look big and that dude’s ankles are the size of my wrists!
Speed Shop promo clip, courtesy of Simon and Paddy.
Shot by Paddy
Edited by me
And that’s me doing the riding IN THE BIG RING!
That means I was making him ride in the big ring, while I hid under a car sun protector to keep my camera out of the rain.
Help me out here guys! Go to this link (which is to my photo above), hit the facebook “like” button and you’re done. If you want to spread it around that’d be super awesome, because I want to win stuff :D
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Christophe Dessaigne photographs surreal scenes of lone figures wafering a post-apocalyptic landscape.
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CCC Crits - 30/11/11
Shot some Vikings Supercrits racing the other week in Canberra.
Everyone’s favourite @mome_raths Paddy pulled out second, then moved up to B grade this week and got second again. I’m stoked for him, but it’s making me think about giving up and growing my leg hair back. Getting dominated!
Simon’s a champ. For those (three of you) who don’t know what I look like, second photo, second wheel with the FML face.