Chess players dope? Apparently. Last year this guy lost a match and then was asked to piss in a cup by the officials, he runs out of the room and refuses to provide the beta blocker aphetamined laced urine. The German chess federation is joining the anti-doping fight, because they don’t want the young chess players growing up [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Doper
Posted in bikes, germany on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
World Commute
Posted in bikes on March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Cool little green social networking site for commuters launched by Cateye out of Japan. Allows you to log your miles and track carbon offsets, network socially, and its on a global scale. Go and sign up, what else do you have to do? www.worldcommute.com
A minor crisis was narrowly averted yesterday at the home-front. I came [...]
Springtime
Posted in bikes, germany on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Full day of sunshine, spring may be here. Great weekend with good riding, no precipitation, even though Sunday turned a little windy and chilly.
The trails are mostly dry now, so Sunday it was off into the woods to hide from the wind. This was the first ride on the Paragon since September’s crash that claimed the life [...]
I’m not Irish
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Gavin is taking Korean sword fighting (Haidong Gumdo) and is instructed by Meister Bae, someone I wouldn’t want to piss off, especially if she was carrying the bushido blade.
Maybe one day Gavin can sell Ginsu knives on the shopping channel.
Some stats from Eurobarometer from a few years back on EU countries and average per person [...]
This is getting old
Posted in Uncategorized on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rain and sleet. The weekend is looking good as is next week, I am ready for this wintery crap to be gone. Looks like my plans have changed and I will now be able to kick off the season with the Munich citybike marathon.
In “Nation” news, good for Pap, Manny was a cancer and good riddance. [...]
Weekend Wrapup
Posted in germany on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The weather has been pretty wicked the last couple, sleet, snow, rain, wind, sunshine, repeat. The key was get out early and get it done. Saturday night was Cinci chili night at a friends, good food and good beer. The conversations at these gatherings always gravitate towards country comparisons, and this one was no different. [...]
Crazy?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Do you ever have conversations with your legs, and actually feel differently about each one, as if you were a football coach and each leg was a different player, and you like to punish one with extra sprints after yelling at it for dogging the last interval? Of course not, cause that would make you [...]
The best month begins
Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just over a week ago this hill had enough snow to ski across to reach the woods. Temps are routinely in the 40s. There is something in the air. I am officially calling the end to winter on my birthday, 3 hours and 29 minutes after leap day. It was a good day, early morning [...]
