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		<title>And So It Begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Depending on what part of the country you live in the early season races are starting to pop up. If you live in a place that has winter this usually means driving 12-14 hours to blind people with your ghostly white legs that have not seen the sun since October. All those hours on your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechurchofthebigring.com/sermons/and-so-it-begins-2</link>
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		<title>Bike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thought I would lighten up a bit today. This made me smile. bike ♥ from Rick Darge on Vimeo.]]></description>
		<link>http://thechurchofthebigring.com/sermons/bike</link>
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		<title>UTCX Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Team Big Ring is an amazing group of people. I feel fortunate to be associated with such a diverse and talented group. Team rider Tommy Chandler not only won the last race of the UTCX he then put his considerable skills with a lens to work and shot this gorgeous clip of the Mens A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechurchofthebigring.com/sermons/utcx-video</link>
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		<title>Balance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To paraphrase the late great Hunter S. Thompson &#8220;Bike racing is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits &#8212; a false doorway to the backside of life&#8221;. At the upper levels a Pro Tour rider will log 30,000 miles in a season. At the local fred level [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechurchofthebigring.com/sermons/balance</link>
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		<title>There Can Be Only One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found this gem on the interwebs today. Beautifully shot and edited. Reminds me why I love cyclocross so much. I really missed racing this season&#8230; To me cross is the purest form of racing. The races are short enough that tactics are basically &#8220;go hard and turn!&#8221;. There are really no excuses, no faking, no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechurchofthebigring.com/scripture/there-can-be-only-one</link>
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		<title>Group Ride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only through the group, I realized — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body reach that height of existence that the individual alone could never attain. And for the body to reach that level at which the divine might be glimpsed, a dissolution of individuality was necessary. The tragic quality of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechurchofthebigring.com/sermons/group-ride</link>
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		<title>Reset</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it stops being fun it is time to move on. That is what I have always said about racing. I am now wrestling with what makes racing fun for me. Is it winning? Is it testing oneself? I don&#8217;t think it is winning, yes I have won a few races but if it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechurchofthebigring.com/sermons/reset</link>
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		<title>The Lost Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2011, shit what a season. Not what I planned that is for sure. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and hell is for sure where I have traveled. The result for me is I never pinned a number on. Two huge loses and the ensuing depression are what did me in. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechurchofthebigring.com/sermons/the-lost-season</link>
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		<title>Road Season Summary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since if have been MIA since the start of A Tour of France I thought I would blurt out a few sentence fragments about my thoughts on the pro road season since then. Here goes: -Schlecks need to learn to win -Cadel has the heart of a lion -Gilbert is a honey badger -Contador actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechurchofthebigring.com/scripture/road-season-summary</link>
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		<title>Ask The Hard Questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings Big Ringers. I guess the big question is where have I been? Let me just say this summer did not go according to plan. Huge shifts and challenges that will be with me forever. The bike was not a priority. A mistake? Not sure really but that is the way is played out for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thechurchofthebigring.com/sermons/ask-the-hard-questions</link>
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