Tumblr (3.0; @lonelydimple)http://lonelydimple.com/“I opened myself to absorb the suffering of the pack, rising up and over the hill into blurriness, then blankness. My wheels sang that strange knifing music of speed, and I became aware of other bikes beside me, then falling back, and at the line I was third, gaining fast on first and second: Two points. I eased off the pedals. The pack washed around me. Recovery was the hardest part of racing. In contrast to immolating your body in a sprint or a chase, simply trying to hang on after one of those efforts was a slow undertaking that demanded not the glorious scaling of a peak but the grim tenacity to stay out of the valley, to summon the focus ninety times in a single minute to not ease off on one pedal stroke. My entire ambition had to be marshaled and spent on each revolution of each foot, with no grand treasure such a point awaiting me, no reward except the gift of being able to keep doing this to myself. And though it felt like life or death, of course it was not: To stop, all you had to do was stop. The same mind that generated that thought implored me to ignore it. Things ripped loose inside of me that I had spent a year building for the sole purpose of being able to rip them loose. I spit my breaths out. I drifted back, in love with the sport of cycling.”<br/><br/> - <em>Bill Strickland</em>http://lonelydimple.com/post/7589449662http://lonelydimple.com/post/7589449662Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:41:10 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0c14dzi7E1qz5rnoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>koppenberg</p> <p>via <a href="http://www.steephill.tv/2010/tour-of-flanders/photos/page-01/" target="_blank">steephill</a></p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/494719428http://lonelydimple.com/post/494719428Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:17:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l09gfh3usP1qz5rnoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-mount-dora-doctor-tells-patients-go-aw20100401,0,6040296,full.story" target="_blank">ass-holery</a></p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/491510247http://lonelydimple.com/post/491510247Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:54:52 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuvuogamnO1qz5rnoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://lonelydimple.com/post/289839687http://lonelydimple.com/post/289839687Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:48:16 -0600<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuod9vxkSi1qz5rnoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Failed donut hand-up …</p> <p>via <a href="http://cxmagazine.com/ice-weasels-cometh-a-favorite-of-racers-and-spectators" target="_blank">cxmagazine.com</a></p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/284118886http://lonelydimple.com/post/284118886Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:49:07 -0600<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kud3dqxeKn1qz5rnoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>via <a href="http://www.pezcyclingnews.com" target="_blank">pezcyclingnews</a></p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/275395947http://lonelydimple.com/post/275395947Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:41:49 -0600<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku5serPmAD1qz5rnoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>via <a href="http://www.pezcyclingnews.com" target="_blank">pezcyclingnews</a></p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/269781228http://lonelydimple.com/post/269781228Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:01:39 -0600<p>Cheese!</p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/106357582http://lonelydimple.com/post/106357582Mon, 11 May 2009 13:35:21 -0500<p>All play and no work makes Jack unemployed.</p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/105079284http://lonelydimple.com/post/105079284Fri, 08 May 2009 11:22:44 -0500<p>My hips aren&#8217;t as wide as you think. My leg is bent.</p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/104300284http://lonelydimple.com/post/104300284Wed, 06 May 2009 16:17:46 -0500<p>On your left. [metaphorically]</p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/104300281http://lonelydimple.com/post/104300281Wed, 06 May 2009 16:17:45 -0500<p>Racing your road bike *just* to train for cyclocross? Kinda like boxing to become a better rope-jumper.</p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/103457540http://lonelydimple.com/post/103457540Mon, 04 May 2009 16:17:44 -0500<p>Tour of Kansas City gets too big for one weekend in 2009. <a href="http://www.tourofkc.com" target="_blank">http://www.tourofkc.com</a></p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/102154494http://lonelydimple.com/post/102154494Fri, 01 May 2009 00:17:20 -0500<p>Glen Beck has officially killed political philosophy. Time of death; too soon.</p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/101083316http://lonelydimple.com/post/101083316Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:16:29 -0500<p>Two &#8220;mechanicals&#8221; in this past weekend&#8217;s races. One case of a bad spoke. And one case of bad legs.</p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/100681886http://lonelydimple.com/post/100681886Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:16:26 -0500<p>First rule of Facebook is you don&#8217;t talk about Facebook.</p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/100014983http://lonelydimple.com/post/100014983Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:16:24 -0500<p>Varying the water contribution to my instant oatmeal by 0.5 oz. in either direction just ruins everything.</p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/99307004http://lonelydimple.com/post/99307004Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:16:14 -0500<p>Mostly unrelated to my last update &#8230;. cyclists are cannibals.</p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/96549105http://lonelydimple.com/post/96549105Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:08:28 -0500<p>Yep, just checked my Old Testament. &#8220;Thou shall not impede traffic&#8221; is not on the list.</p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/96549107http://lonelydimple.com/post/96549107Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:08:28 -0500<p>Taking it up a notch for the 2009 racing season &#8230; shaving my ass too.</p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/95021546http://lonelydimple.com/post/95021546Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:02:15 -0500