Hump day links

• » MetCycling is hosting a nifty "cadence symposium" on Saturday, Sept. 15. Looks to be a cheap way to get your VO2 max measured or have an expert check out your form. (Patrick McNally tells me neither he nor his team are making any money off this. They're just organizing and extending it to the greater cycling community.)

• » Lately I've been enjoying the collaborative cycling blog Triple Crankset, run in part by former Chicagoan Leonard Basobas. As someone who admittedly doesn't follow the NRC much except for when it's racing nearby, this fans' point of view is useful for staying abreast of the various personalities and storylines.

• » The Road Magazine blog has been fun this week, too, as Neil Browne tagged along with Jelly Belly at the USPRO road race.

• » A brief rant: The conventional cycling media are fine for providing results and the latest doping news, but for our sport to get more popular, the media -- blogs included -- need to draw out more of the riders' personalities. If NBC can make us give a damn about curling once every four years, surely someone can pull the same miracle with cycling. David Zabriskie (CSC) is always good for a soundbite and storylines don't get much better than that of Saul Raisin (Credit Agricole), but that's only a start. We need to know stuff like what Andrew Bajadali (Jelly Belly) has for breakfast at Waffle House. As it is, pro cycling has an obvious problem when people like me are only able to get excited for the races that happen to coincide with the local amateur races.

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