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Wow, this has been a crazy week. I’m back in Boulder after spending last week in Visalia, for the NRC they call the Quad Knopf. It was a great race, I was really happy for Sherri Clark, the organizer. She worked so hard, always had a great attitude, and did womens racing right, by offering an equal prize list. I shit you not, the womens racing on the NRC circut these days is as exciting, if not more so, than the mens race. I’m not dissing the men, but it’s about time the bike race community recognizes how awesome the women have been racing. I’ll admit, I used to cringe at the thought of watching the negative racing against Saturn the last few years, but to be honest, Saturn was just too good. You can’t knock them for that, as Tom Schuler is one of the smartest guys in the sport, and he was given the recources to do what he did, which was dominate the sport. I have a ton of respect for Tom, but I bet he would agree the racing is a lot more wide open and fun to watch these days, now that we have so many evenly matched teams.
I’ve been home in Boulder for the last week, and it’s been great. I’m really bummed that I don’t announce at Redlands, but I have to assume that they have better announcers than me, or I’d be there, right? I sure wish I could have been there though, as Andy Bajadali is such a cool guy, and that win was huge for him and his Jelly Belly team. I am really happy to be headed back to Georgia though, as the Tour in that state is for sure the race that I made my name at, and I great week, every year. I actually love that race, and state. The Medalist folks are by far the best people I have ever worked for. Well, AEG are unrateably good, as far as that goes, but they are smart, and hire Medalist to handle the “racing” part of the Amgen Tour of California. I know I’ll never work at the Tour de France, but the Tour of California is my TdF. I’ll always be proud that I had the chance to announce at the first 2 years of that race, and every Georgia. They can’t take that away….
I’m headed to Georgia to be a part of Saul Raisen’s ride on Friday. I am so stoked. I’ve always loved Saul. When he was on oFoto, he struck me as a really smart, funny kid, and I was right. After what he’s been through, making the trip to the East Coast before heading back across the country to do one of my favorite races, the Garrett Lemiere GP, was a no brainer. As I mentioned, I love Georgia, and the ride is in Sauls hometown, Dalton. This will be a tough, but rewarding weekend, for sure. It probably isn’t the smartest thing I’ve done, but I bet the karma rebate I get for it will be off the charts!
March 26th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
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March 27th, 2007 at 7:31 am
Dave,
Great to have you back on the collegiate scene this weekend. It’s awesome that you get to do all these big races around the country, but I know everyone along the front range loves it when you have an off weekend and we get to have you at our local races. Take care, have fun, etc…
-Corey
March 27th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
congrats on getting to go to Georgia– hope we’ll run across each other again shortly!
March 29th, 2007 at 7:48 am
great post dave! — thanks for supporting the ladies! see you soon…
March 29th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Looking forward to having you back at Collegiate Nats again.
I was reminded of this photo I took of you and Abramson:
http://tinyurl.com/3yzpg5
I’m looking forward to more moments of brilliance like this one.
Can’t wait!
Ciao,
Alden
April 1st, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Hey, Dave,
Thanks for the nice things you say about women’s cycling. I totally agree….now, if you would just mumble those primes, I’d sure appreciate the confusion. Let’s keep those things on the DL, eh? Keep up the good work. It’s always a pleasure to see and hear you (nice haircut).
BB
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:38 am
Dave your the best announcer ever. Your irrepaceable.
Keep up the good work.
November 16th, 2007 at 2:19 am
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The University of Florida, Florida State University found that physically attractive people almost instantly attract the attention of the interlocutor, sobesednitsy with them, literally, it is difficult to make eye. This conclusion was reached by a series of psychological experiments, which were determined by the people who believe in sending the first seconds after the acquaintance. Here, a curious feature: single, unmarried experimental preferred to look at the guys, beauty opposite sex, and family, people most often by representatives of their sex.
The authors believe that this feature developed a behavior as a result of the evolution: a man trying to find a decent pair to acquire offspring. If this is resolved, he wondered potential rivals. Detailed information about this magazine will be published Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
In turn, a joint study of the Rockefeller University, Rockefeller University and Duke University, Duke University in North Carolina revealed that women are perceived differently by men smell. During experiments studied the perception of women one of the ingredients of male pheromone-androstenona smell, which is contained in urine or sweat.
The results were startling: women are part of this repugnant odor, and the other part is very attractive, resembling the smell of vanilla, and the third group have not felt any smell. The authors argue that the reason is that the differences in the receptor responsible for the olfactory system, from different people are different.
It has long been proven that mammals (including human) odor is one way of attracting the attention of representatives of the opposite sex. A detailed article about the journal Nature will publish.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
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