http://www.qgd3.com/blog building humility through open source training Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:39:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The off-season/vacation mindset is tough to shake. I have lots of recapping from the season to do here, I know, but it's almost time to start the prep for a new season. To that end, I've gone ahead and put together the preparation and base periods of my training plan ... http://www.qgd3.com/blog/?p=147 We interrupt this sappy post-season reminiscence to bring you this story: Ice Cross will happen this Sunday! 9am in Jackson Park - park where you did for CCC race #1 Totally free racing Revised Jackson Park course Orange barriers Donut/bacon/etc hand ups Several short heats including Mass Start, Handicap Start, and Madison Weather DOES NOT CANCEL http://www.qgd3.com/blog/?p=144 I don't want to write it, and you don't want to read it, but as much as we'd rather otherwise, the cross season came to an end yesterday with the Illinois Cross Championship at Montrose Harbor. Sans snow, the prospects for a decent last race looked grim until my first ... http://www.qgd3.com/blog/?p=139 This weekend I was reminded that doing things well isn't always, or even often, as entertaining as doing them dramatically. I've ridden a couple of genuinely well-paced races this season, and I've ridden the rest in my favorite form that I like to call the "Burning Fireball of Exploding Lactate ... http://www.qgd3.com/blog/?p=133 So the less said about my race last Sunday the better: bad start, broke my front brake cable on the second lap, limped around the remainder of the race and got to be the last rider to finish the lead lap (yeah just me, my rebellious broken brake and the ... http://www.qgd3.com/blog/?p=127 "I'm sorry, do I know you?" http://www.qgd3.com/blog/?p=125 Dear Cyclocross, It's been awhile since I've written, I know. I've been trying to figure out how best to say what needs to be said. You and I both know that things have been kinda awkward since Dan Ryan Woods. I know you were having a bad day, and all the ... http://www.qgd3.com/blog/?p=123 In the center of the US, there are a few days close to the end of October that are, without doubt, my favorite of the year. These usually come after a little cold snap brings out the colors in the trees. Suddenly one day, the sun comes out, it's just ... http://www.qgd3.com/blog/?p=118 I wrote up this really long -- nay, epically long -- account of this week's race. It reads like the freakin' Odyssey, and in it I valiantly battle fearless warrior Mark Feary for 10th place in excruciating lap by lap detail. It's way overwrought. I won't subject you to it. ... http://www.qgd3.com/blog/?p=112 Sunday was perhaps the quintessential fall cyclocross day, and the race put on by Half Acre was second to none: crisp air, gorgeous blue skies and the trees beginning to change. The course in Dekalb was as good as last year , and perhaps better. I managed a mediocre finish ... http://www.qgd3.com/blog/?p=104