A few off-season milestones this week: 1) The calendar turned from Jan. to Feb., meaning race season could be thought of in terms of being weeks away rather than months away. 2) Signed up for a pair of races in S. Beliot, Ill., on March 27 (first...

Julie and I lost a friend and co-worker Thursday when Andy Nelesen passed away after suffering a burst blood vessel in his brain while at work Monday night. I hung in various capacities with Andy for the 10 years we‘ve lived here. Like any...

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While the TV weather guessers got the general forecast right (sunny), there is now way it was 38 today, much less 30. (NWS reported the high at Oshkosh as 25 on Saturday). That’s pretty minor as Mike Buelter and I hopped out for a 32-mile road...

The next six weeks are the hardest weeks of the year. No holidays to look forward (and no vacation this year either) and the first real chance for getting back out on the road on a road bike is late Feb. or early March. So it's hunker down on the...