{"id":573894643,"date":"2022-08-01T21:46:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T01:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573894643"},"modified":"2022-08-01T16:54:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:54:15","slug":"welcome-to-august-somehow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2022\/08\/01\/welcome-to-august-somehow\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to August? Somehow?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wiped out a little spider web with my pedal just before my morning ride on Saturday. I looked down and saw two small webs close together, oriented horizontally, on top of the wet grass. I was wondering what sort of insects the spiders would get in webs arranged that way, when my left pedal went right through one of the webs. The little spider will have to build again for his supper and I felt bad about that.<\/p>\n

I also picked up this blade of grass on my bike shoe in the yard. <\/p>\n

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It stuck there because of the morning dew. It stayed until I hit 24 miles per hour. Either the dew dried, or the breeze got under the blade, or it just gave up, or even got to where it needed to be. It hung on for about a mile, though, and I felt good about that.<\/p>\n

At one point I thought I’d caught up to my lovely bride, but it was another rider. I blame hypoxia. And the fact that this other person also had long hair, and was wearing something similar to one of The Yankee’s kits. But, after thousands and thousands of miles on bikes, most of it chasing her around, I figured out my error … because it wasn’t her pedaling style. <\/p>\n

Which meant she was still somewhere ahead of me, which meant I was still behind, which meant I had to pedal even harder.<\/p>\n

Caught her just at the end of the ride.<\/p>\n

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Wrapped up the Tour de France Femmes this weekend. Anthony McCrossan, a British commentator who was the world feed voice for both the men’s and women’s Tours, had a perfectly characteristic go home line. <\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026 For too long, these women and women\u2019s cycling have been producing the performances you\u2019ve been witnessing over the last eight days with no one watching \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

gif: @valcar_ts<\/a>\u2019s @silvia_persico<\/a><\/p>\n

2\/4 of @LeTourFemmes<\/a> with @antmccrossan<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/1fkiJmyRvs<\/a><\/p>\n

— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) August 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n