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Blogging Was a Thing

It has been nearly eight years since I posted regularly on this blog. I put up a few posts back in 2012, otherwise, nothing for a long time. Going back to read the posts from 2006 - 09 have been a trip down memory lane for me. Back then it felt like everyone in the bike racing community had a blog and would update it after every training ride or race. We all ate that crap up because we wanted to see everyone else's first hand account of participating in the sport.

Times are different now. No more bike racing (for me anyway) and no more making my daily rounds to check out everyone's blog. I get pretty nostalgic over things like that because bike racing was such a big part of my life and only a few years of it were captured on a blog.

Some day I want to show my daughter all the nonsense junk I wrote on this blog in hopes that it will give her a small glimpse into that part of my life.


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