Urgent - Buy Your Lance Armstrong Movie Tickets
Before They Sell Out Again
We intended to go as a group to the premiere of Lance's documentary about his victory in the Leadville 100.  Whoops, did I spoil the ending for anyone?  However, it sold out right away.  There is an encore showing next Thursday (info below), and tickets go on sale today.  It is expected to sell out quickly again.  You can buy tickets (with a $2 convenience charge at Fandango -  http://www.ncm.com/Fathom/Upcoming/Locations/80305/11/12/2009/Sports/RaceAcrossTheSkyENC.aspx
 
Or, to avoid the charge, tickets can be purchased for $12.50 at the theater. You can see a trailer for the movie at http://www.raceacrossthesky.com/
 
Race Across the Sky Encore
·  Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
·  Time: 7:00pm
Century Boulder
1700 29th Street
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303-444-0583

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This is What Can Happen When You Flip Off a Motorist
A doctor in LA was recently convicted of assault with a deadly weapon, mayhem and other serious criminal charges.  According to the Los Anegles Times:

"Prosecutors alleged that on July 4, 2008, Thompson stopped his car after passing the two cyclists and shouting at them to ride single-file. One cyclist ran face-first into the rear windshield of the doctor's red Infiniti, breaking his front teeth and nose, and leaving his face scarred. The other was sent hurtling to the sidewalk and suffered a separated shoulder.  A police officer testified that Thompson told him soon after the accident that the cyclists had cursed at him and flipped him off, so he slammed on his brakes "to teach them a lesson."

These riders may have been well within their rights and justifiably angry at a motorist who was tailgating and honking at them.  Is it really worth risking this sort of thing just to assert your rights?  The BCC advocates using courtesy and empathy with residents and motorists as the guage of appropriate behavior as opposed to unnecessarily exercising cyclist rights to the full extent of the law.  Here's an easy way to empathize:  how did you feel the last time you were stuck for ten minutes driving 25 mph behind a big RV that refused to pull over?  Is it any different when cyclists impdede traffic?  And don't forget that cyclists, even those riding single file in the car lane, can be cited for impeding traffic just like any other vehicle.
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Famous Ironman Champion Advocates Hill Repeats - In Low Gear!
Lance Armstrong is famously known for not only winning the Tour de France, but by doing it by "dancing" up the big climbs in a small gear.  In other words, unlike his long time rival Jan Ulrich, Armstrong prefers to push a small gear at a higher cadence vs. a big gear in a lower cadence.  Now you would think that what's good enough for Armstrong is good enough for 3X Ironman World Champion Chrissie Wellington, but in a recent interview with Bicycling.com,
Wellington says all that small gear stuff is just a bunch of nonsense.

"I love to push a big gear. It's a misconception that you need to spin a smaller gear at a higher cadence on the bike. You don't," Wellington said. "Doing that actually raises your heart rate and makes you more tired, which doesn't serve you very well in long distance racing. Cranking it down and pushing a bigger gear lets me lower my heart rate. It's what feels natural to me and enables me to go the fastest I can go," she added."

Wellington also revealed why she never goes on very long training rides:

"My longest rides are four and a half, maybe five hours. But more often I do double rides. So you still get the volume, but not at the exclusion of quality. For example, in the morning, I'll do hill repeats where I'll warm up and then do a climb anything from 1.5 to 4 kilometers and stick it in the 53/11, get on my aerobars and just grind it up and down for an hour to an hour and a quarter. Then I'll swim and rest. And later in the day-after my legs are loaded up with lactic acid-I'll do another two-hour ride with a time trial of 30 to 60 minutes thrown in," she said.

This makes an NCAR six-pack look like a piece of cake!
Thanks to Roman Mica for this article in the Endurance Sports Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/x-2490-Endurance-Sports-Examiner