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		<title>2012 &#8211; The Year We Make Contact Controversy (again)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t ever make New Year&#8217;s resolutions because in my world, January 1 is not the start of a new year &#8211; it&#8217;s a random date in the middle of my year that starts on or around August 25th and ends around June 20th. Being a teacher after 18 years of being a student has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Vaughters: Fashion Plate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching the Tour of Flanders last night and I was perturbed by the Jonathan Vaughters&#8217; latest look&#8230;or rather, his latest statement eyewear. Normally I can deal with his rimless squared off tinted glasses and his circa 1997 mountain biker side burns, but his latest choice for spectacles had me scratching my head. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And now for your daily dose of WTF?!?</title>
		<link>http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/2011/03/24/and-now-for-your-daily-dose-of-wtf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I teach high school. I&#8217;ve been doing this since 2001, and I was thoroughly convinced that kids today are a lot dumber than when I was in school. I don&#8217;t mean that we are failing them in terms of their education, it just seems that my students make a lot of spelling and grammar errors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Facebook and the like&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/2011/03/22/on-facebook-and-the-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/?p=1534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s been a while. Since I started this blog in 2004, I had gone at most maybe 4 weeks between posts. This time I let the blog lie dormant for over 5 months. I know that at this point no one is checking back for updates, which means that I will probably have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See look! Not all promoters are bad&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/2010/08/20/see-look-not-all-promoters-are-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/?p=1493</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let this be a lesson to you all: FROM: Blunt Park Cyclocross Race, Race #1 of the Tobacco Valley Cyclocross Series &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Hi All, I want to say thank you for pre-registering for Blunt Park. 20 pre-registered woman is great. In response to your support of our race I will double the woman&#8217;s purse. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attention Endurance Coaches: Capital letters, punctuation marks, and verbs are free. Please use them.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed that quite a few endurance coaching businesses are emerging with new flashy websites, detailed pricing plans for a variety of different levels of personal coaching services, and a veritable plethora of spelling and grammar errors. One might argue that if someone is advertising his services as a coach, it should not matter if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bike Handling 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know you were anxiously awaiting the final installment of the Fitchburg Blog, but there was not much to say about the crit other than it was hot (like, 100º F) and I finished 15s down because I suck at sprinting. The end. I have, however, competed in several other races over the last 5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fitchburg 2010: Stage 3 &#8211; The Time Trial</title>
		<link>http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/2010/07/13/fitchburg-2010-stage-3-the-time-trial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/?p=1449</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;a scene in which our heroine faces a challenge put forth from The Man*. *The Man, who in this case, is the USA Cycling Official responsible for Time Trial Bike checks The time trial &#8211; what was in the past Stage 1 of the venerable classic has now become Stage 3 &#8211; because it cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fitchburg Stage Race 2010: Stage 2 &#8211; Same Song, Second Verse</title>
		<link>http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/2010/07/07/fitchburg-stage-race-2010-stage-2-same-song-second-verse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/?p=1444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the road race. It used to be my favorite stage, the penultimate stage of the Longsjo, the stage that separated the men from the boys, or the real racers from the posers. I refuse to use terms like women and girls, or even worse, ladies, because in general, terms that describe women seldom differentiate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fitchburg Stage Race 2010: Stage 1, or a Comedy of Errors</title>
		<link>http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/2010/07/02/fitchburg-stage-race-2010-stage-1-or-a-comedy-of-errors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/?p=1436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished stage 1 of the venerable Fitchburg Longsjo Classic Stage Race, and all I can think was &#8220;what the hell was that all about?!?&#8221; Seriously&#8230;it was by far the most bizarre FSR stage in all of my 12 years of racing (to be precise, I have only raced Fitchburg a total of 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting an end to the 650c Wheelsize Myth once and for all</title>
		<link>http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/2010/05/01/putting-an-end-to-the-650c-wheelsize-myth-once-and-for-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 23:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still get emails from women asking advice on bike size and bike fit, and the number one question (other than &#8216;what bike do you recommend?&#8217;) is &#8216;will I go slower on 650c wheels?&#8217; The answer is&#8230;NO. I&#8217;ve discussed this on here plenty of times, and I have always used my own race results as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diva</title>
		<link>http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/2010/03/12/diva/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/?p=1361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently commented about the appropriate name of my new bike &#8211; insinuating that I am a bit of a Diva. Well, maybe I am. Take, for instance, my list of demands concerning my new bike. When I decided to spring for a new ride, I was painfully aware that the only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If the UCI ran other sports&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/2010/02/22/if-the-uci-ran-other-sports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you hadn&#8217;t seen it yet, the latest news in cycling is that the UCI has decided to ban the Specialized Shiv time trial bike two days before the final time trial of a race that started three days ago. Apparently, the bike, which debuted in the spring of 2009, is not within the legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A voice from the peloton&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/2010/02/18/a-voice-from-the-peloton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following comment is from a woman who I raced with locally here in New England many years ago (I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been that long). Her points address the issues at the local, grassroots level &#8211; the problems and the solutions. In my opinion, it&#8217;s the most coherent thing that&#8217;s been posted on here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sticker Shock</title>
		<link>http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/2010/02/09/sticker-shock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kerry-litka.com/main/wordpress/?p=1239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had the great fortune of receiving bikes for free since 2006. Ah, the joys of sponsorship. Prior to that, my last road bike purchase was 2003, when I bought my Moser scandium frame with 9 speed Ultegra for $2000. I am quite certain that I got a pretty good deal on that bike. [...]]]></description>
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