Grrrrfluuuuhhhh bluuuuh blaaaaah mmmmrrruuuuh. If I had to write articles during my race weeks, that is how they would read. Brain not well work racing when. When it comes to writing, I always favor quality over quantity. And now that it's race season, the good folks at the Examiner are getting a little annoyed with me.
"You need to write more frequently," they say.
"Fruuuullluuhhh gnuuuuh" I say.
The idea that I'm supposed to come up with poignant topics and smart interviews while racing back-to-back multi-day stage races like San Dimas and Redlands, living between homestay couches and my station wagon, subsisting on energy bars and gels (a bizarre athlete "food" designed to bypass the act of chewing), and spending every non-cycling minute immersed in job hunting in this ever-so-friendly economy is becoming slightly problematic. Also problematic is my penchant for run-on sentences.
So I'm wondering if you can help me. When I have the time and ability to string together coherent ideas and regular interviews, I will do so. In the meantime, perhaps you can provide the topics of cycling relevance and the stuff of athletic wonder!
Here's what we'll do: I will take your questions and comments on cycling and give you advice from my disheveled brain. You think up the topic, I'll provide the "answer." I'll be just like Dear Abby, with intermittent bouts of road rash. You can call me Dear Scabby. Or not. Dear Cycling Goddess. Ooh, that's better! Hey Kathryn works, too.
For questions I can't answer, I will ask other nearly depleted pro cyclists for their two cents, thus ensuring you will get at least four cents worth of stellar cycling advice.
Got a cycling/life question? Write to me at espnolympian@aol.com.
Thuuuuunk uhhhh.