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• It’s Always a Good Day to Ride: Just Another Beginning

  23 January 12 • 0 comment

  

  by Paul Warloski The end felt like just another beginning. Cyclocross Nationals has already fired me up for next season.

• It’s Always a Good Day to Ride: Sponsors, Challenges and Settling into the Season Routine

  25 October 11 • 0 comment

  

  Sponsors, Challenges, and Settling into the Season Routine by Paul Warloski On Mondays especially, it’s often challenging to stay positive. I’m tired, a little cranky and sore after a weekend of travel and racing. Dealing with seventh graders who still have the same daily amount of energy is a chance to truly practice “choosing a [...]

• It’s Always a Good Day to Ride: And Now The Real Fun Begins

  24 September 11 • 0 comment

  

  Paul is ready to ride – stop by and see him at the USGP today! Photo courtesy of Paul Warloski

  By the time you read this today, the mwi cross circus will have gathered under the black and green tent near the start line in Sun Prairie, WI for the first weekend of the USGP.

  It’s the start of the racing, the travel, the camaraderie, and off-camber downhill turns. The heckling, suffering, mud, and crashes.

• It’s Always A Good Day To Ride: Preparation, Waiting, And Finding Some Patience

  3 September 11 • 0 comment

  

  In less than two weeks, I’ll be traveling to the first cross race of the season. Like you, I’ve been preparing for these races all year, training hard, eating and drinking right (most of the time … )

• It’s Always A Good Day To Ride: Progress; And Why ’Cross Is So Much More Fun Than Crits

  20 August 11 • 0 comment

  

  It’s summer in Wisconsin, and that means a lot of criterium racing. We’re fortunate to have two race series here, and as a teacher I have a bit of time in the summer to race.

  The result of all the racing is that I’m definitely making progress in my recovery. I’ve felt progressively stronger as the summer has gone on. I don’t think I’ll ever be the rider I was before the crash, but I have become a different rider.

• It’s Always a Good Day to Ride: Feeling the Flow – Or Learning Not to Think

  23 July 11 • 1 comment

  

  Cyclocross Magazine columnist Paul Warloski profiles his return to cyclocross after a near-devastating injury. Follow Paul as he takes us along for a ride of trials and tribulations of a cyclocrosser with a refreshed perspective. If you missed it, check out Paul’s last column, Finding Perspective. Flow – Or Learning Not to Think by Paul Warloski [...]

• It’s Always A Good Day To Ride: Finding Perspective

  9 July 11 • 1 comment

  

  Although I’m no longer going to win any prizes for prettiest legs, the crash that nearly took my life has offered a surprising gift.

  The day I was brought in by ambulance, the doctors took me into surgery immediately, the first of four, and I spent eight days in the hospital.