March 11, 2010
Follow Me
To borrow one from my pal Stevil, "Here's one for the weekend."
Follow Me - the Teaser from Anthill Films on Vimeo.
Share this PageMarch 1, 2010
Check Check Check Check
Is this on?
I've been gone for a while, but I have a good excuse. A little more than a month ago, I was offered the position of Editor-in-Chief at Bike Magazine. I accepted the offer, packed a few things and headed south. Bike's Editor, Lou Mazzante, decided it was time to fly the coop, but stuck around until the 19th of February, in order to put his final issue of the magazine to bed. On February 22, I took over the reigns.
My head has been spinning since I walked into the office for the very first time. Bike is a very strong magazine, so I have my work cut out for me. But it's gonna be cool.
It was an assignment for my school newspaper that first got me interested in cycling. Once I'd gotten a bike and started riding a bit, it was a magazine first began to fuel my daydreams about becoming a bike racer. I guess you could say that my life in cycling has come full circle.
If you're a hardcore road racer or cross-country mountain bike racer, you might not have given Bike a look. Racing has never been a focus of the magazine, but that is fine by me—I've already used up all of my angry pedal-strokes. But if you like beautiful photography, and stories about some of the other things that can be done on a bike, check it out.
As I come up to speed, I might be a little slow here on this weblog, but I will still be here.
Cheers.
I've been gone for a while, but I have a good excuse. A little more than a month ago, I was offered the position of Editor-in-Chief at Bike Magazine. I accepted the offer, packed a few things and headed south. Bike's Editor, Lou Mazzante, decided it was time to fly the coop, but stuck around until the 19th of February, in order to put his final issue of the magazine to bed. On February 22, I took over the reigns.
My head has been spinning since I walked into the office for the very first time. Bike is a very strong magazine, so I have my work cut out for me. But it's gonna be cool.
It was an assignment for my school newspaper that first got me interested in cycling. Once I'd gotten a bike and started riding a bit, it was a magazine first began to fuel my daydreams about becoming a bike racer. I guess you could say that my life in cycling has come full circle.
If you're a hardcore road racer or cross-country mountain bike racer, you might not have given Bike a look. Racing has never been a focus of the magazine, but that is fine by me—I've already used up all of my angry pedal-strokes. But if you like beautiful photography, and stories about some of the other things that can be done on a bike, check it out.
As I come up to speed, I might be a little slow here on this weblog, but I will still be here.
Cheers.
February 14, 2010
Hey Joe – I just finished reading A Dog In A Hat – what a great read, finished it as soon as I got it. One thing that I’m curious about is your training – it seems sort of spotty by how you describe it and you mention that you get much better form by racing. However, I’m also sure you didn’t just show up and start racing without some fitness. I’m also wondering how you think you might have trained differently given what’s known about training (or that it seems less traditional, more individualized) today.
Dave King - Fresno, California
Dave,
I'm sure you've heard people say, "I was born a few years too early." Well, I was definitely a part of the era that didn't really know much about training, but I would never have been able to train like they do today, so I am perfectly happy with when I was born.
Dave,
I'm sure you've heard people say, "I was born a few years too early." Well, I was definitely a part of the era that didn't really know much about training, but I would never have been able to train like they do today, so I am perfectly happy with when I was born.
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February 2, 2010
Bob Roll
I'm sure that many of you know by now that Bob Roll was seriously injured in a skiing accident. In the crash Bobke managed to break three ribs and his femur. I've been friends with Bob for twenty-five years now, and have always known him to be a tough dude. I've broken my own fair share of ribs, and would wish that incredibly inconvenient pain on no one but, according to the Blob, breaking a femur takes pain to a whole new level.When I was racing in Belgium, I would always know when my competitors were, shall we say, chemically altered with any number of drugs in the amphetamine category because they could
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January 25, 2010
Cobblestone school
Since this year’s Tour de France will be contested on the narrow, wind-swept, and cobblestone streets of Belgium during its first week, many of the top GC contenders have started making some noise about spending some time in that country to brush up on their cobblestone riding skills. Lance Armstrong, for one, is set to ride the race most consider the most difficult of the “flat” classics, the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Alberto Contador, has also indicated that he’ll be spending some time on the Belgian stones, in order to acclimate to the feel, so to speak. Other GC men will surely follow suit, since a rookie mistake on the cobbles during the fast first week of the Tour could take a rider out of contention in a heartbeat.Continue Reading »
January 19, 2010
Father of the Alp – Rest in peace
Yesterday, a Flemish priest by the name of Joost de Waele died. Father de Waele was in charge of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges on Alpe d’Huez. Normally, I would afford a priest, or any other member of the clergy, only about as much attention as I would anyone else, meaning that unless I knew the person, I probably wouldn't take time to stop and think about his life or death. I’ll go ahead and proceed in this case, though, since Father de Waele was a Flemish person presiding over one of the most famous bike race climbs in the entire world. I also would like to bring this up simply to point out the meaning of bicycle racing in Europe. Continue Reading »
