Ryan's Favorite Russian Wins

Le Roi de Donuts has been talking up the big Russian (Karpets) for weeks and he came through big in the Tour de Swiss. Those poor Swiss podium girls look bummed to have to kiss his grizzled, 72-hr shadow cheeks. They would have prefered a clean shaven Chris Horner or perhaps Cadel Evans. Karpets will play second fiddle to Valverde in Le Grande Boucle however.

The Quote That Will Get Me Through Another Season of CX Suffering

"It is not the critic that counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles. Or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement. And at worst, If he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
— President Theodore Roosevelt, "The Man in the Arena", Paris, 1910