Scott Robinson Des Moines, IATumblr (3.0; @lonelydimple)http://lonelydimple.com/“As I watch my two year old son, Ashlin, learn to pedal and ride a two wheeler without training wheels I can see something in him that is common in most professional cyclists: the fear of falling is overwhelmed by the thrill and the love of riding. He falls and bounces back up, brushing off his scrapes because he wants to get back on the bike to try again and do better. The pain dissipates, as he keeps moving towards his goal. And, like most of us, he doesn’t relent until he is completely tired out. But unlike us, who have slowly accepted the risks, he has yet to see the damage.”<br/><br/> - <em><p>Michael Barry</p> <p><a href="http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/05/news/cutting-the-grass-in-the-flowing-peloton_114449#ixzz0nAmzfZHz">http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/05/news/cutting-the-grass-in-the-flowing-peloton_114449#ixzz0nAmzfZHz</a></p></em>http://lonelydimple.com/post/576619600http://lonelydimple.com/post/576619600Thu, 06 May 2010 12:54:00 -0500“<p>‘‘During race, I am going crazy, definitely,’’ he says, smiling in bemused despair. ‘‘I cannot explain why is that, but it is true.’’</p> <p>The craziness is methodical, however, and Robic and his crew know its pattern by heart. Around Day 2 of a typical weeklong race, his speech goes staccato. By Day 3, he is belligerent and sometimes paranoid. His short-term memory vanishes, and he weeps uncontrollably. The last days are marked by hallucinations: bears, wolves and aliens prowl the roadside; asphalt cracks rearrange themselves into coded messages. Occasionally, Robic leaps from his bike to square off with shadowy figures that turn out to be mailboxes. In a 2004 race, he turned to see himself pursued by a howling band of black-bearded men on horseback.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/sports/playmagazine/05robicpm.html?pagewanted=all">full story - NYT</a></p> <p>via <a href="http://kottke.org/">kottke</a></p></em>http://lonelydimple.com/post/538758006http://lonelydimple.com/post/538758006Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:39:00 -0500<img src="http://26.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/">steephill</a></p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/494719428http://lonelydimple.com/post/494719428Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:17:00 -0500“<p>“People with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things. If they choose to commit adultery, they do not then go running, in an excess of bad conscience, to receive absolution from the wronged parties; nor do they complain unduly of the unfairness, the undeserved embarrassment, of being named co-respondent. In brief, people with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of mortal nerve; they display what was once called character, a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to other, more instantly negotiable virtues.</p> <p>The measure of its slipping prestige is that one tends to think of it only in connection with homely children and United States senators who have been defeated, preferably in the primary, for reelection. Nonetheless, character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self-respect springs.</p> <p>Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about. They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline, the sense that one lives by doing things one does not particularly want to do, by putting fears and doubts to one side, by weighing immediate comforts against the possibility of larger, even intangible, comforts. It seemed to the nineteenth century admirable, but not remarkable, that Chinese Gordon put on a clean white suit and held Khartoum against the Mahdi; it did not seem unjust that the way to free land in California involved death and difficulty and dirt.</p> <p>In a diary kept during the winter of 1846, an emigrating twelve-yaer-old named Narcissa Cornwall noted coolly: “Father was busy reading and did not notice that the house was being filled with strange Indians until Mother spoke out about it.” Even lacking any clue as to what Mother said, one can scarcely fail to be impressed by the entire incident: the father reading, the Indians filing in, the mother choosing the words that would not alarm, the child duly recording the event and noting further that those particular Indians were not, “fortunately for us,” hostile. Indians were simply part of the donnee.</p> <p>In one guise or another, Indians always are. Again, it is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has its price. People who respect themselves are willing to accept the risk that the Indians will be hostile, that the venture will go bankrupt, that the liaison may not turn out to be one in which every day is a holiday because you’re married to me. They are willing to invest something of themselves; they may not play at all, but when they do play, they know the odds,” - <a href="http://mallaryjeantenore.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/an-essay-worth-sharing-joan-didions-on-self-respect/">Joan Didion</a>.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em>via (<a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/04/quote-for-the-day-2.html">Daily Dish</a>)</em>http://lonelydimple.com/post/494670273http://lonelydimple.com/post/494670273Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:52:00 -0500<img src="http://29.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">ass-holery</a></p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/491510247http://lonelydimple.com/post/491510247Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:54:52 -0500<img src="http://27.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://28.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">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">pezcyclingnews</a></p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/275395947http://lonelydimple.com/post/275395947Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:41:49 -0600<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku5serPmAD1qz5rnoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>via <a href="http://www.pezcyclingnews.com">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’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">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 “mechanicals” in this past weekend’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’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>Yep, just checked my Old Testament. “Thou shall not impede traffic” is not on the list.</p>http://lonelydimple.com/post/96549107http://lonelydimple.com/post/96549107Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:08:28 -0500