Temps du flahute...

Bikes packed... before the snow. How often does it snow for a race in late April? Not that much, right? Sure, there's that old Liege-Bastogne-Liege in 1980 that Hinault won in a blizzard... but this year that seems ancient history. In fact, watching the spring classics over the last few weeks take place under almost summer-like weather has been a tease for us stuck in a wet, raw New England April. Yesterday I saw the recon pics from Liege-Bastogne-Liege: Pros mostly riding in shorts and short sleeves while training - it must have been pretty darn warm, usually they're well wrapped up in training. The last days around here were 40's and 50's F, with flags straight out in a cold wind. Shoe covers, long gloves, thermal cap, the whole nine-yards. Windtunnel. Cold. But today, well it topped them all. The Quabbin Reservoir road race... 104km of up and down. Quabbin reservoir is one of the largest man-made public water supplies in the...