It’s been quiet here this week, for any number of reasons. \u00c2\u00a0 Work has been busy.\u00c2\u00a0 National politics have gotten so absurd that I’ve needed to take a short break, lest my head explode.\u00c2\u00a0 And there is nothing I want to say about what happened at Virginia Tech (other than that I wish 95% of the people on TV talking about it would follow my lead).<\/p>\n
I have<\/em> been tracking the Tour de Georgia over at Podium Cafe<\/a>, though, and having a good time doing it (Stage 1<\/a>, Stage 2<\/a>, Stage 3<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 For those of you who don’t know, the Tour de Georgia<\/a> is a professional cycling stage race that takes place over 7 days.\u00c2\u00a0 Steephill.tv<\/a> has an excellent one-stop site for information about the race, and you can actually watch the race live on the web here<\/a> (it runs from 11a to 2p on Thursday, check Steephill for times Fri-Sun).<\/p>\n Cycling isn’t exactly the most popular sport in the US (it regularly gets shafted by TV in favor of bullriding or fishing coverage . . .), but the Tour de Georgia is a big deal for American pro cycling.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m heading down to Georgia on Thursday so I can watch the final three stages in person.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Friday brings a pretty exciting finish on top of Brasstown Bald, Saturday involves a fast run from Lake Lanier down to Stone Mountain, and Sunday finishes the Tour with a circuit race through much of downtown Atlanta.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll be posting about that here and at Podium Cafe, so if you’re interested, check back nightly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been quiet here this week, for any number of reasons. \u00c2\u00a0 Work has been busy.\u00c2\u00a0 National politics have gotten so absurd that I’ve needed to take a short break, lest my head explode.\u00c2\u00a0 And there is nothing I want to say about what happened at Virginia Tech (other than that I wish 95% of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}