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		<title>Future World Champion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With cyclocross still about five weeks away, we&#8217;ve got to fill the time between work and training somehow.  Mindi sent me this cute little video of a kid who definitely might be headed somewhere in a few years.

Actually, having just listened to this great episode of Radiolab all about what it takes to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Pro Cycling, Mistakes, and Karma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I started covering professional cycling a couple of years ago, I&#8217;ve learned that the American notion of what goes into making a professional cyclist &#8212; a notion I shared, by the way &#8212; is just totally wrong. A lot of Americans seem to think that cyclists work their way through the ranks until they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=268</link>
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		<title>Midsummer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been pretty badly behind in updating my blog, although it&#8217;s not totally without reason.  I&#8217;ve been on the road almost nonstop since April, first hitting the US (see the last post), then La Roche-en-Ardenne here in Belgium, then Denmark and Sweden, Switzerland, and a few other spots.  And when I wasn&#8217;t traveling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=265</link>
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		<title>In Boulder (The Season Starts Here)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So sitting here in a cafe in Boulder, drinking chai with Mindi and using the free wifi for a little bit, I finally got around to uploading the last photo I took from the 2009-10 season.  Though I took the week off for a meeting, it&#8217;s hard not to think about racing and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=262</link>
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		<title>The New Season, The New Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a regular visitor to this site, you&#8217;ll notice that a number of things have changed here recently. First, there&#8217;s a new look. The theme I was using was old and out of date, and not totally compatible with some of the cool features of recent versions of WordPress, the software that runs this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=258</link>
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		<title>Lichtervelde, Balegem, &amp; Waregem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For anybody who might be thinking it&#8217;s been too long since my last update, blame Cyclocross Magazine.  In the past two (and a bit more) weeks I&#8217;ve covered nine pro races and raced three times myself in the Vlaamse Cyclocross Cup.  Of the days off from &#8216;cross, I spent a couple either sick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=247</link>
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		<title>Varsenare &#8216;Cross 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I had one of my best races of the season—in fact, one of the best of my career—in Varsenare. The course, flat with a series of technical turns between long, straight sections, barriers, and a long finishing stretch on the road, was a good match for my strengths. It was really cold, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=240</link>
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		<title>A Massive Mid-Season Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since I posted an update here, largely because the demand of my work on the newly-launched PROBA2, writing for Cyclocross Magazine, and still trying to race once in a while have all but maxed out my waking schedule.  But, fear not, here&#8217;s the update you&#8217;ve been waiting for!
Zwijndrecht
I capped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=229</link>
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		<title>All Systems Go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the last few weeks have been incredibly busy, and an update on both Koppenberg and my own race in Zwijndrecht are on their way.
But the reason the last few weeks have been so busy is that we have been working very hard to prepare for the launch of PROBA2, the satellite I&#8217;ve been working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=227</link>
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		<title>Zingem Cyclocross, 2009 Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zingem was the first race I&#8217;ve done this season that I also did last season, and I was kind of excited to finally race on a course that I knew.  These Flemish courses are full of really nasty little technical climbs and whoop-de-doos (that&#8217;s a scientific way of referring to a class of super-steep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=221</link>
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		<title>Bevere &amp; Ruddervoorde</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The way I see it there are things you can do when you organize a race that make it really great and there are things you can to that make it pretty much awful.  The race in Bevere on Saturday featured both.  One of the best things you can do is build a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=217</link>
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		<title>Back to the Bike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I haven&#8217;t written anything here for a while.  That&#8217;s because I&#8217;m busy at work and busy breaking more bikes and not racing.  The not racing thing was intentional, since we&#8217;re going to be spending pretty much every weekend between now and the end of January at bike races, it seemed like a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=215</link>
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		<title>Knesselare &amp; Eernegem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been a little slow to update the blog lately because I&#8217;ve been busy gluing tires, cleaning layers of dust and grime from my bike, and driving all over Flanders so I can race.  So it&#8217;s catch-up day today.
We&#8217;re now two races into the season, which kicked off (for me, anyway) last weekend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=210</link>
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		<title>The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a solar physicist, They Might Be Giants&#8217; hit Why Does The Sun Shine? has always been near to my heart.  But many people have pointed out that it does contain some important inaccuracies, most notably that the Sun isn&#8217;t a &#8220;mass of incandescent gas&#8221;; it&#8217;s plasma.
Well, it turns out, TMBG have corrected themselves.

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		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=207</link>
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		<title>A Brief Comment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There will be news on the cycling front very soon, I promise.  There are tires waiting for glue and frames waiting (patiently, in some undisclosed warehouses) to be built up.  And races to be raced, although maybe not quite as soon as I had hoped.  Stay tuned.
Today, I want to share this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=204</link>
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		<title>Dog Days of August</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing terribly interesting to say about us at the moment &#8212; especially with half of Brussels shut down while the city takes its summer holidays &#8212; but there are a few interesting things happening elsewhere.
First, over at the excellent blog In the Crosshairs there&#8217;s an interview with my part-time pseudo-employer, Andrew Yee from Cyclocross Magazine. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=202</link>
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		<title>A Decade Ago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was ten years ago today, August 11, 1999, that I saw my first total solar eclipse.  Because the eclipse path passed over a densely populated swath of India, the Middle East, and Europe, it&#8217;s likely that it was the most viewed total solar eclipse in the history of the world.  For me, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=194</link>
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		<title>They all think he&#8217;s a righteous dude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So John Hughes died yesterday.  No doubt 10,000 eulogies will memorialize his work bringing Ferris Bueller to life and making Molly Ringwald a star.  Maybe a few will even remember that Hughes brought us the ever enthusiastic Clark Griswold.
But I&#8217;ll always think of a different movie when think about John Hughes, one that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=192</link>
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		<title>32 Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From now on, whenever someone asks what I do on the bike, I&#8217;m just going to show them this video and say, &#8220;This is what I do.&#8221;  (Do yourself a favor and watch in full-screen mode.)

US Grand Prix of Cyclocross &#8211; Portland, Oregon from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

Counting down the days now.
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		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=189</link>
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		<title>Fat Cyclist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I wrote about my own little piddling troubles with my bike.  VIsiting Fat Cyclist today for the first time in a while (prompted by a shout out from the ever excellent Bike Snob NYC) put things in perspective.
Fatty&#8217;s blog is a must-read these days, and that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m going to say about that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gearratios.org/?p=187</link>
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