• FavoriteRun.com combines a repository of running route maps with a personal activity log. The site appears to be able to take uploaded data from Garmin Forerunners and similar devices. Favorite Run must be popular because I found over a dozen routes within 5 miles of my house already recorded by five different site users.

• Solvang Camp: DC Team Travel on ThePaceline.com: "Getting from Point A to Point B might sound like an easy proposition,a but what if you have almost 30 Point A's to begin with? Is it still as easy as A-B-C? Well, if you take the word of Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team logistics specialist Barbara Van Maeldergem it's literally all in a day's work. Barbara is an enthusiastic twenty-four year old from Brakel, Belgium, and she organizes the travel to and from the races for the riders and staff all year long. She's been working for DC since last April and connected up with the team through the service crews who live in her town. She studied Tourism, speaks perfect English (as well as four other languages), and has always had a love of sports."

  Team Discovery Channel's off-season cycling camp is getting underway in Solvang, CA. This article describes travel arrangements for a pro cycling team. [ Free registration required to read content from The Paceline. ]

January 24 is the first anniversary of my season-ending leg injury that was the end result of a high speed collision between me, working as an ice hockey official, and a player from the Red Bank Catholic boys' varsity ice hockey team during a game against St. Augustine Prep School in Vineland, NJ. Physically and mentally, I'm fully recovered.