Today's Keeping Tempo is brought to you by Mullet Ranch Cycling Camps, whose ads you've started seeing on the site lately. They're in Florida and have training camps in January, February and March - perfect tune-ups for Jefferson Cup, right about the time of winter that you're sick of slogging it out in the slush and cold up here. Team and club discounts are available, so click through an ad, have a look, and report back to your squad to see if you can get a quorum.
The "Mullet" by the way, is a kind of fish, not a haircut. I know you're disappointed, but the camps still look like a hoot.
- Winter Training has begun at Kelly Acres, though the baked goods to training miles ratio seems to be a little wack.
- Nate Wilson now has a blog. Only one post, but if you like tales of 82 hilly miles with a busted derailleur, you might find it interesting.
- Ben Pearl is a podiatric surgeon at Arlington Foot and Ankle. But that's not important right now. What's important is that he's got an interesting interview on his blog with his friend Eddy Van Guyse, the "authenticity consultant" in Breaking Away, who also appeared in the film as the underhanded Cinzano rider.
- Le Amateur Domestique is getting his group ride on.
- Congrats to Steven Gordon, formerly of Haymarket Bicycles p/b Function Drinks, and now the proud owner of a pro contract with DLP Racing.
- Track Sean (aka Homey at the Velodromey) has pictures from Rockburn Cross.
- And also from Rockburn, ABRT/Latitude's The Wheelsucker offers up these takeaways for anyone thinking about racing CX themselves:
The wheelsucker's takeaways:
1. Use the faster tires
2. Do NOT try to pedal through the sand trap unless you know how to pedal in sand
3. Work on the dismount and mount technique so one loses less distance at the two "carry bike over" obstacles.
4. Carefully consider if he wants to do cyclocross again
5. Wear as little team kit as possible when you suspect you are not going to do well
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