It is getting into the most crucial weeks of training for most autumn races (don't I know it) – what are your plans?
IF ELECTIONS are sport in Louisiana, then late spring is half-time: a chance to reflect on the March campaigns and to breathe deeply before the autumn races start.
There are Classic races in the spring and the autumn raced over the flat (Paris Tours: the Sprinters' Classic), small to medium climbs (Amstel Gold, Flèche Wallonne, Liège Bastogne Liège) and, most famously, the cobbles of the Tour of Flanders and Paris Roubaix.
The studios had already discovered the summer blockbuster with "Jaws" in 1975 and "Star Wars" in 1977, and the late 1980s and early 1990s produced the coming of indie-film hardball players like Harvey Weinstein and Merchant-Ivory, guarantors of Oscar quality whose films staked out the available corners of the autumn awards race.
He speculated that the pileup has resulted because ambitious stars and filmmakers have given up on the rest of the year, preferring to cram their films into an autumn awards race on the assumption that it is the real path to an audience.
The chapters alternate as these trajectories converge; there are subtle parallels between characters as they race through autumn, winter and spring, past occasional narrative cul-de-sacs, towards the glimmering possibility of redemption.
The average attendance for its big-race laden autumn meet last year was a little over 3,000.
The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is now European racing's autumn highlight and Stoute will be very keen to add that prize to his illustrious CV.
Ray Fair, an economist at Yale University who for years has forecast elections based on economic models, currently sees Democrats winning about 50.5 percent of the popular vote in House races this autumn, down from 53.4 percent in 2008.
But Dalarna is not just for summer journeys: every March, the region hosts the Vasaloppet, one of the world's biggest cross-country ski races, and autumn brings incredible foliage and rich game dishes at restaurants of surprising sophistication like the Dala-Husby Hotell.
