Originally Posted by
kwrides
From the news at the link, I saw Bill White on my MS150 training ride last week. He's a pretty nice guy. He parked with the rest of us, stood in line to use the port-a's like the rest of us, and just chatted with people.
Bill White is the mayor of Houston, not the freaking President. Plus, I don't care who you are...your not cutting in the restroom line.
Originally Posted by froggmann
The Chronicle used to run a "cycling notebook" column on Thursdays year around. It was very informative. Around MS150 time they would have a training schedule for novice, intermediate, and experienced riders similar to what they do for the marathon with a list of training rides, routes and races. They also ran stories about local clubs and competitive riders. They did away with it last year when they changed "formats" and needed more space for girls middle school soccer player of the week and texas hold'em results. Thats about the time I canceled my subscription. I'm glad they decided to bring it back.
I remember when I ran cross country and track; we got a slim results column and that was it. They never did a feature on anyone until someone was headed for state. Football did, but not any of the other sports. I also remember that they didn't really have much for information other than results on the news when I was in high school. Fast forward 5 years later and now they have entire websites dedicated to high school sports, the news spends more time talking about high school then the pros, and they get to play in big name stadiums during playoffs. All we ever got was some podunk stadium at some community college.
-Nate