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As Picasso once said

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“We have invented nothing”

I mean, Madonna (here featured Blond Ambition style circa 1990) maybe invented a few things, but probably not as many as I would like to think.

I have no idea if Madonna is herself a cyclist (I think not) but there is something to that image that has stayed with me a bit these days. If everything old is new again, surely it’s not that unthinkable that everything old was once new and everything new will soon be old and really, now is just as good a time as any to take a pause for effect and have a bit of a think.

I’ve been thinking about this image for a while too. I mentioned it before once, here.

And I’m conscious that my focus can sometimes be on the “create” to the detriment of all the other steps which are as beautiful and as important. Like “observe”, or “evaluate”. God, “fail early”, I’m all over that. But some of the other stuff, well, that’s just been a bit left behind.

Tonight I have a reprieve, my physio cancelled.

 

Chances are, it’s going to rain all well, and the partner in crime has dismantled Jana Wendt (you don’t even know how I let that happen, but I did. We think we have secure attachment, but we don’t).  So I’m one bike down and one bike that doesn’t like getting wet and dirty.

Time to go back to first principles. Time for a bit of a think.

First think first might be fixing up this freaking template.

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One day, when I am famous and I have heaps of money and time to devote to such things, I am going to run some sort of photography competition for people do for cycling what The Sartorialist has done for walking down the street in New York. Arguably, Andy and others are already all over this one, but sometimes I wish that my photography would do justice to my subjects.

In the end, I think one of the secrets is getting people to stop since I can neither whip out my iphone nor become a better photographer while actually riding my bike.

Lucky for me, Kendall was already stopped and sure, I was running late for work but I just had to pull on up for a quick chat. She just looked utterly chilled and cruisy, presumably someway to work or someway from something to something, a simple front basket, a basic skate lid and goddamit some super hot shoes.

With blue soles.

You can’t see them, unless of course she’s pedalling away on her bike, which is just the kind of detailing that makes me reach matcher’s heaven.

Apparently she has a road bike too, so you never know, she might be an all star celebrity ride on interview about nothing much at all. One can only hope dear reader, one can only hope.

PS you know, I know and we all know that this change of layout has been a pretty big disaster, but we live and learn, right? I’ll get there in the end. Just really really slowly.

When does the weekend grow old?

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Because I know that it’s Wednesday but I have to say the weekend was pretty lovely up here in lalaland.

Firstly there was the radio time with Domenico, which was super sprucetown excellent. Then there was lady’s bike polo on in Musgrave park, with the lovely Allie waving the mallet about with others of the Brisbane hardcourt crew.

Right beside them at the park was the Brisbane Freestyle Longboarding community having their first birthday which was basically helmet overload. Big time.

Sun was shining. Weather was sweet. Josh was even there. Sans lid this time, but dishing out some sweet cupcakes as a part of their birthday celebrations, recognising one year since their flood relief rollout event.

And that was just Saturday.

On Sunday, there was a long break on the training ride, somewhere around Murrarie but before the Gateway Bridge but it was all good by me. We waved to Jane and her smiling crew as we rolled out at lazy jerks o’clock getting well and truly fritzed by the time the smoothie was hitting the smooth spot.

Did you have a good weekend? How long til the next one? And how long til there’s a women’s CX in Melbourne? I heard some rumours and I will put it on my “training plan” if there’s truth to that there rumour.