REACT check
I am feeling very proud of myself at this moment. Normally, as a textbook procrastinator, it takes a deadline to make me actually get started on something. For these blogs, that deadline has been before departing for my next trip as it would be kind of confusing to publish a story from a trip that is separated from the present by a few other trips. So, for the last couple, I have been writing them a day or two before departing for the upcoming trip to make this self-imposed deadline. Today, however, I am getting started on this blog the day after arriving back home from this round of racing. Whether I publish this or not today is another question, but this is one of those small victories in life. The trip I am returning from is my second of the year. The team took me up to race a few of the French one-days. The term "one-days" means that each race only consists of an individual day of racing. This contrasts with the stage race format where a race is held over several stages a...