Brrrr.. Omloop Het Volk weather sounds like it’s gonna be cold and dangerous on the cobbles. Zero degrees and light snow overnight - foggy, freezing weather over those climbs and cobbles. That pavé is gonna be slick and dangerous. Especially that one narrow climb...

Those guys are all so damn tough - imagine how they suffer in that kind of weather. No matter how hi-tech the material they are wearing, those guys are damn cold. When see these guys after riding in this kind of weather, I often think about some dumb sportswriter saying that cycling is not a sport, or that the riders are not athletes, or how they are not tough. Watch a Spring Classic and then see how stupid that comment is....

I’m heading over to my web guru’s place to tweak the Discovery site a bit. I have really been neglecting the poor little Podium Girl site - It takes so much time to stay on top of all the sites and keep up this blog. Definitely a labor of love...

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