You are only as good as your last showing.

I am not talking about the Cowboys going from “hottest team in the NFL” to “WTF was that?”

Woke up yesterday and the cyclism in me felt horrible. Totally beat. Felt like a zombie. I had already raised TSS/day by nearly 10% this month, so maybe I was a bit overworked. I decided an easy 50 minute spin was the order of the day.

Got up early this morning ready for the intervals. Was looking forward to them and felt ready. I was not ready. I was horrible and shut it down 20 minutes into the first interval.

Anxious to ride tomorrow, put out good power, and feel good about this stuff again.

NFL Rant

• Braylon Edwards’ hands rival those of Darius Heyward-Bey, Roy Williams, and Santonio Holmes.

• I just watched Jamarcus Russell quarterback the Bengals to a loss and ruin a beautiful rushing game by Cedric Benson and his offensive line.

• Whether it is the rule itself or how the refs call it (I suspect the latter), this “a receiver must maintain possession when he goes to the ground” rule has gotten out of hand. I just watched Laverneous Coles catch the ball, take three steps with it indisputably in his possession, and then fall to the ground where the ball popped loose. It was called an incomplete pass. Dumb.

• A median yard per rush might be a useful statistic. A guy can struggle all day, break a single long one, and have a very misleading yard/carry.

• Hate the late hits after a player scores in the end zone. A receiver can catch the ball, take four steps in the end zone, get crushed, and this is OK. If a player takes a single step out of bounds and gets hit, the personal foul is quickly called. Why the inconsistency?

“I race for the fun of it,” says Dropped Racer.

Please.  Dropped Racer, are the faster guys not having fun? Is there an inverse relationship between speed and fun? Would it not be fun to cross the line with your arms raised? How lucky you are, Dropped Racer, to have figured out the perfect balance between fitness and fun that fits everyone! Those slower than you don’t train hard enough and those faster obviously don’t know how to have fun like you do.

Another one I hate… “Cycling really is not that important.” Cycling is no less/no more important than lots of more typical human endeavors (money, house, career, fast cars, kids, sex…) If in the scheme of things, cycling does not matter (and it may not), really, does anything?

Dedicated or obsessed?

“Willpower and dedication are good words. There’s a bad one, though, that means the same thing. That one is obsession.” -- Stephen King in “Wizard and Glass”

Certainly applicable to amateur cycling.

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