The commitment that we make to cycling is as auspicious as it is self-fulfilling.  I am fortunate on both accounts and more.  As for miracles, well, they are where you look for them.  Today there was no epic challenges, no battle royales, no halfwheeling hell.  Just a strong, steady effort on a holiday weekend with some superb athletes either at the peak of their fitness, ramping up for the season, or leveling off. 

Well, the world didn’t end.  So we went for a ride today despite brutally cold temperatures.  The wind was slight but many roads were treacherous on an originally planned route to the north.  I drove to the downtown Bakehouse because I couldn’t get out of my neighborhood safely on the bike.

“There are roadways not to be traveled, armies not to be attacked.”  Sun-Tzu in The Art of Warfare, 403, BC- (Before Chris K.)

Great rides are like great battles.  I have a library of them. I used to think it was useful to study warfare as a marketing manager and Sun-Tzu wrote the seminal text.  But there’s also, Nelson, Grant, Patton, on and on.  However, these battles that we wage on the streets of Blooomington are more like bayonet and hand to hand combat. in the trenches