Coasting the Draft...

Regular readers of my blog will notice I've been jumping around a little -- from reports on my training, to information on the two big rides I'm taking on this year, (having just announced the EOD Ride along with my 11th Pan Mass Challenge), to our adventures in paleo/primal eating. Yes, I know it's a little spastic... but it's all related! Training, fundraising, healthy diet... It all comes together in the end. Just you wait and see.

Vacation Week

Heh, heh... I'm getting a chuckle from you folks asking me why I didn't rename the blog "THERE'S A CAMEL UP THAT HILL (dot com)". Too funny.

I'm riding indoors this week and hitting a mountain or two with the boys. (It's school vacation week!) I'm sure they're going to be impressed with my mad snowboarding skills. :)

Renaming the Blog, Part 2

Will was quite serious about renaming the blog and tossed out some names to me today. Our conversation went like this:

Will: "'Being a winner dot com'."
Me: "No. That's ridiculous."
Will: "O.K... How about, 'Super Cool Ninja Cyclers dot com'."
Me: "Are you being serious?"
Will: "'I'm a better rider than you dot com'? 'Cereal is my religion dot com'? Or how about, 'My son is sexy dot com'. No, wait. Scratch that one."
Me: "Already forgotten."
Will: I've got it!! How about 'Don't get a Concussion dot com'."

(Grrrrr....)

Ultimately, we did come up with several (cycling related) suggestions together and it was actually hard to choose between them. Welcome to Coasting the Draft -- (That perfect moment of riding in the slipstream of the paceline).

But, let me go back to one more classic Will suggestion...

Will: "There is a camel up that hill dot com".
Me: "Huh?! What does THAT mean, exactly?
Will: "It's when you're riding really hard and you're totally beat, and you come to a hill and you look at your friends and say, "Hey, look. There's a camel up that hill." And then you get to the top of the hill and there's no camel. Odd when that happens."

Yes, Will. Very odd.

Renaming the Blog

Will has strongly suggested renaming the blog, (and after 8 years of writing under the same title, I agreed it would be nice to change things up a bit.) I told him to come up with a new name, and I'd be happy to change it. (So far, the names he's given me are so incredibly crazy, I'm not taking him too seriously.) I can understand his teenage angsty-self-conciousness... (Team Cronin is too personal)... but he has to come up with an alternative. I'll keep you posted.