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<title>Recreation Through Endurance</title>
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<description>What if you could start every day with a ride? How would it feel to see more dirt than concrete? Is it possible to wear a camelbak more than slacks? Pipe dreams, I know... But what is life without dreams? ...and sometimes those dreams come true where a couple times a week, lanes aren't determined by yellow and white lines, but by bench cuts and mossy singletrack. Sometimes, we wind down our day with a helmet hair and dirty skins. Even occasionally, just before the sun goes down, flying down the side of a mountain is the reward for struggling to the top, and those things help put everything else in perspective.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:46:36 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Tour day France</title>
<link>http://homepage.mac.com/jastangl/blog/July_07_Blog.html#aex207453682</link>
<description><![CDATA[I vowed not to watch the tour this year, but as circumstances worked out, I ended up watching even though I didn't really want to.  As expected, I got excited watching Contidor and Rasmussen fight it out on a couple of mountain stages.  Then, Rasmussen gets pulled and I felt betrayed that my rooting and cheering was all for nothing.

I'm glad pro cycling is cleaning itself up, but it's hard to watch a race when you don't know if a certain stage's outcomes are going to matter.  I'm hoping next year is better than this year and I think it will be.  Maybe I'll even watch it because I want to.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:01:21 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Kevin A. Stangl</title>
<link>http://homepage.mac.com/jastangl/blog/July_07_Blog.html#abx207023129</link>
<description><![CDATA[To the man who taught me to put my heart into everything I do and always show others respect, you will be missed.<br />
<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/jastangl/blog/user_files/dad&jared.jpg"><img src="http://homepage.mac.com/jastangl/blog/user_files/dad&jared_thumb.jpg" width="375" alt="Dad & Jared.jpg" title="Dad & Jared.jpg" /></a><br />
<CENTER>1953 - 2007</CENTER><br />]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:25:28 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Rag And Bone</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As a young adult, I listened to a lot of music, mostly CDs, but used to radio as a way of finding new music.  One day, I was listening to a FM station experimenting with a call-in show and they were discussing "the greatest bands of all time".  Some listener called in and nominated Pink Floyd to the list, which the DJ respectfully declined.  Her justification was that "a great band should release better music with each album".  I don't know enough about Pink Floyd to agree or disagree, but I do have every album by The White Stripes (including Broken Boy Soldiers by Jack White's side band, The Raconteurs).  <br />
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I'm not arguing that The White Stripes are one of the greats, but I will say I felt confident I could buy their new album without hearing any of it first, a big no-no for me.<br />
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:08:53 -0400</pubDate>
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