Oh Yeah! A Blog! Part 2!

So I have this thing, where I like to play with blogs. Different blog thingies, like posterous, or tumblr, or wordpress, or whathaveyou. But I guess I'm always kind of partial to Blogger. Maybe because I started blogging on Blogger back in 2004, and I've always kind of liked the way the classic blogger template felt. It kinda reminds me of a time when social networking was linking to your friends' blogs in the sidebars of your blogger blogs. That was quaint. Anyway, since playing around with other blog ideas on other sites, I've come back to this one. Really, I have nothing important to say, so what's the point. I'll just stick to this old blogger page. So, this year is shaping up to be pretty decent so far as far as biking goes. Despite the warm-ass weather, I haven't been able to get outside to ride much, for two obvious reasons. But I have been hitting the Y and the trainer pretty consistently. I'm not too fat heading into spring, and since I'm not planning on any road racing this year, I feel like I'm in good position to start really training for cross. I want to have a big cross season this year. I got hooked last year. Hooked bad. So what does big mean for me? It means I want to upgrade from four to three, and do it quickly. I've got my sights set on a new cross frame. I'm obsessing over the Cielo Cross Racer by Chris King. It's down-right reasonably priced for a hand-made high-end steel frame and it's f-ing beautiful. Behold:

Not sure I'd go with that color. Maybe the green on black. But I love it. I just don't understand why more companies don't make steel cross bikes. I guess it's all carbon all the time. But steel for cross makes more sense that steel for any other discipline. It's vibration damping qualities, I would suspect, would more than make up for the added weight. Maybe stiffness is a problem. I don't know. But damn. I want that bike. But for now, I'll just keep plugging away on the trainer and at the gym. Gotta maintain some sort of shape until the snow melts and the temps rise a bit. We're supposed to get 8-10" here tomorrow, so I don't want to get my hopes to high for riding outside. But that's the beauty of planning to only race cross - I don't have to get all hyped about training indoors when I just wait a month or two for nicer weather. I would like to hit some mountain bike races, but I suppose that another story.