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The SLB early bull speical ends April 1. Its 200 off anyone who signs up by then. That’s 925 bucks for 9 days in spain. That’s a sick deal as it includes lodging, food, all transportation within Spain and 4 pros/coaches.

The number of people who signed up has been surprisingly awesome. We got top pro ELF, outstanding bad ass Christian her husband. USA Track and Field 50k past camp the Annachrist as well as CREW peeps like PJ, David, Mike Hartnet aka Miguel del Norte and Niel from 2008 slb and CREW fame. Plus the ELF is rolling deeps with midwestern talent that includes 5 pre-reg folks and that’s even counting the CCB dudes. So hit me with an email, or else pay more later hyctn (at) aol (dot) com .

Remember the early bull stomps the worm.

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This weekend starts the coxsackie weeks of bike racing. I will be doing this each saturday for the next 3 weeks in prep for Austin then St. Croix. 54-62 miles, all brutally hard efforts, sick sick sick.

Please feel free to use the comments section to enjoy all the cox-sack [ie] jokes you can muster.

After winning more Tours of France then anyone in history, Lance Armstrong once again broke new ground by being the first cyclist to not bitch and moan and cry like a little baby over a crash. He said “That’s cycling. It’s nobody’s fault. Crashes happen all the time. It is part of the job.”

In the 100+ years of cycling which has seen countless crashes each one has been followed up with any number of roadies crying, whinning, complaining and pointing fingers. Interestingly to date, this is the first times any roadie has, in the long storied history of cycling, not done that following a crash. That said, 17 different member of the peloton that day blamed over 28 different people, animals, and objects for the crash citing everything from bad riders, poor course layout, the mananics and tv crews and cameras. Several attemps to blame tri athletes were also made after-all, everyone knows that anything involving any problem whatsoever in a group ride is the tri persons fault.

Thankfully all that post crash anger has yet to cause any problems as 115 lb athletes with no upper bodies wearing lycra and cycling shoes can’t fight.

Still left for new ground breaking in cycling: some owning up to causing a crash and taking responsibilty and even saying sorry. Ok ok, that will never happen. But this is a big step forward. Congradulation road cycling this is huge for you.

The BI Sport Shop kits are sweeeet. Get yours at www.blockislandsport.com and will someone please note the happy smile mug I am drinking out of!

50 Meter Long Course Pool at Riverside State Park, NY, NY.
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For Immediate Release: ELF IS EVIL 
Co-director of Strong Like Bull John Hirsch survived a near death experience this morning at the pool at Riverside State Park when he tried to do Elizabeth L. Ferdofsky’s swim workout. Elizabeth who’s aka is E.L.F or The Elf was recently praised in an SLB press release for being “positive”. John Hirsch was however witnessed calling the ELF “evil.” He added “this workout is insane, she must be out of her mind.”
Forensic swim scientist Ken Schultz reviewed the workout. He concluded that: “I noticed the 5k workout was very very hard. But then I saw she struck out the 400s pulls and replaced them with 400 individual medley. That’s just cruel.”
Persnipits Pickelman who is the President of the Elf Anti-Defamation Leauge said, “elves are goodly woodland folk. Let us remember that we saved humans in not only all 3 Lord of The Ring movies but in Hellboy II as well. Moreover who doesn’t love the Keblier Elves and those yummy cookies?”
This isn’t the first time Hirsch has had a run in with elf-folk. In 2006 he claimed they ganged up on him at the Green Mountain Stage Race and attacked him on every climb.
Co-director Sean Langford expressed concern, “I got a call from John, he said he was wondering the city at 8 am topless because he couldn’t get his arms over his head to put a shirt on after doing the ELF’s workout.” He added: “if she rides like that we are all in trouble in Spain next year.”
The ELF declined formal comment but reports have surfaced that she was in a cafe near Chicago stroking her dog “Boss” and muttering: “mmmmwwwhhhaaaa, I. will get the humans.”

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