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#197: the cranky phase of SIP, the UCI's new racing calendar The Paceline Cycling Podcast
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We seem to have entered a new phase of our collective shelter in place, we might call it the cranky phase, Selene says. She discusses what she's doing to stay sane, how she views the different takes of other folks she encounters and just who she's willing to ride with. This week bike racing's governing body, the UCI, released the revised 2020 racing calendar. We will just go ahead and say it: It's insane. It's so mind-bogglingly jam-packed that Samuel Beckett couldn't have come up with anything so hopeless. The men face 127 days of racing in just over three months, with a great many events double- and triple-booked. The implications of this calendar and its downstream effects will be fascinating to watch, but we wouldn't want to be pro riders right now.
We seem to have entered a new phase of our collective shelter in place, we might call it the cranky phase, Selene says. She discusses what she's doing to stay sane, how she views the different takes of other folks she encounters and just who she's willing to ride with. This week bike racing's governing body, the UCI, released the revised 2020 racing calendar. We will just go ahead and say it: It's insane. It's so mind-bogglingly jam-packed that Samuel Beckett couldn't have come up with anything so hopeless. The men face 127 days of racing in just over three months, with a great many events double- and triple-booked. The implications of this calendar and its downstream effects will be fascinating to watch, but we wouldn't want to be pro riders right now.
1 hr 1 min