Keeping Tempo: 2-28-08

Here's today's helping of Internet:

• The Long Ride found a list of 8 ways to improve your time trialing. Curiously, losing 5 lbs of body weight nets 3x the improvement of losing 5 lbs of bike weight. But the greatest time improvement on his list comes from the strategic deployment of caffeine.
• Unless of course you're a high school MTB racer in Northern California. The league that governs MTB racing (which is a sanctioned High School sport!) has banned the consumption of caffeine by racers at events. This isn't local news or even particularly relevant, but I'm impressed whenever cycling takes a leadership position among sport in general, and this is a great example.
• The Granfalloon has a couple other guest bloggers - 2 first-time racers from the new Haymarket Bicycles women's team found out not only that they could survive pack racing at Trade Zone - they're going into next week tasting podium. Way to go, ladies. This cycling lark is piss easy, ain't it?
• TerribleCyclist launches another attack - this time at runners. And cyclists. (Which Le Amateur Domestique responds to.)
• And finally, what happens in Vegas may very well stay in Vegas. But what happens to a bunch of NCVC lads in Arizona invariably ends up on Il Nessie's blog.