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It's Sunday afternoon already? What happened to the weekend? There's nothing like a bike race to make a day go by in a hurry. Yesterday I did the first two races in the 2008 Tour of St. Louis - the Carondelete Park criterium and the Columbia Bottoms Conservation Area timetrial.

The Tour of St. Louis is actually a 2-day event. There is a criterium on Sunday morning in Forest Park. I skipped that one, opting to make the weekend into something better resembling a stage race. A couple of emails and a phone call later I'd landed myself into a couple of hours of hard (for me, at least) riding.

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I won't have time to watch it (see the previous post), but today's also the Tour of Flanders. I'm resolved to catching up on it afterward though. Unlike here today, race conditions are forecast to be epic - rain, snow, hail. All that nasty stuff that you and I won't ride in because we're not paid to.

It's days like this I'm content to be blessed with ordinary genes.

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If I had any doubts that it takes a little luck to win a bicycling road race before today, I have none now.

I really felt like I had good legs; and I just plain felt good on my bike today. For the first 6 miles of the 2008 Hillsboro-Roubaix I really felt like I was doing a decent job of managing my position in the bunch. Too bad all that good was more than balanced by the little bit of bad luck at mile 6.

I hope the sun comes out today. I think a nice ride in the countryside would be better if done in the sun. I'm headed off to Hillsboro in a few minutes for the 2008 Hillsboro-Roubaix Road Race.

It's been a weird week for me, training-wise. Three days of business travel and meetings sort of took the heart out of any bicycle riding. That could be good, as far as freshness goes. My experience is usually that a day or three off the bike leaves me with a lowered sense of feel for what I can accomplish.

So much for that bright idea. I woke up this morning to heavy snow. It's Easter already, Shouldn't this snow stuff be about over for the year?

Plans had been to get out for a few hours with Casey Ryback of Team Seagal. I wanted to get in another good ride before next week's Hillsboro-Roubaix road race, and Casey's training up for an assault on the Ouachita Challenge.

I guess, neither of us had enough Belgian in him to scoff at this weather and go ride anyway, not on Easter morning at least. I, however, have a firm plan in place to get more Belgian in me for the next time this happens:

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I swear I'm missing that one gene that makes someone not do dumb crap. I do it all the time. In fact as hard as I try, I still connot mannage to not get myself invovled with a bad decision.

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