Category: Thoughts

Essays, philosophizing, reflecting, theorizing, wondering, wandering, ruminating, percolating, etc.

Gift Yourself The Birthday Ride

JPPartland

It’s what you love to do. Give it to yourself. You’re the only one who can. I got in my birthday ride last week. And it was glorious. Sadly, it was the first mid-week slot […]

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Getting hit by a self-driving car hurts more

JPPartland

  You’ll surely be blamed for getting hit. Worse than the opprobrium that will come if you ever get hit by a car and you’re not wearing a helmet. That’s what happened when Uber’s self-driving […]

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The NAHBS Experience

JPPartland

As I was chatting at one end of the NAHBS floor, a show veteran walked by and struck up a conversation. As we got into it, he urged me to check out the booth on […]

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Can’t Stop Disc Brakes

JP Partland

Is it performance or fatalism? Road bikes are going to get disc brakes. This much has been clear for the past few years.    But there’s much to suggest the reason is fatalism, not better […]

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Problems With This Testosterone TUE

JP Partland

Let’s stipulate there’s a racer out there who feels tired.  He blames it on his work.  But when he changes his job, he’s still tired. He goes to a doctor.  The doctor comes up with […]

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Malcolm Gladwell Isn’t Really Trying

JP Partland

Malcolm Gladwell’s writing doesn’t break a sweat. His game is taking complicated-seeming ideas and, over the course of a breezy tour, reducing them to fairly simple explanations. It’s a great skill and an act that […]

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Read Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat

JP Partland

  Doping is not going away. It’s everywhere in sport and has been around for longer than most realize. I find the dismissive wave of “everyone’s doing it,” both overly simplistic and entirely missing the […]

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The Glucose Anti-Solution

JP Partland

Why the common elements in doping narratives Doom any Truth and Reconciliation Commission   In his book Breaking The Chain, Drugs and Cycling – The True Story, Willy Voet tells of a moment in the […]

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What we should have been talking about When we talked about UCI Rule 1.2.019

JP Partland

The ruckus over UCI Rule 1.2.019 earlier this year left me unmoved. The rule seems kind of dumb in that it seems too broad, the UCI hasn’t explained the value of the rule, and USA […]

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Lance Armstrong and the Jedi Mind Trick

JP Partland

One of the fascinating things about the Armstrong saga is what we can learn about the world from how information about him, when brought to light, is received. I’m amazed when people, sometimes unknowingly, cite […]

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