gsteinb

I've taken off booties in a race.

ridethecliche

I've dropped a bottle in a race and then almost crashed when I ran over my own bottle.

(Then I came 2nd in the race lol.)

ZeCanon

'Cause it sucked balls. Though I was in the 1/2 race, maybe a bit different.

Except for the last day, which I was about to pull a top 5 in before being taken out on the straightaway with 1 to go.

redal

I don't know if I could do that now. I'm a 1. I never was a 5, they didn't have 5s when I started racing. I've ridden rollers twice. I have always had a trainer so I never got into them. The other great thing, which I think is kind of stupid, is that with automatic upgrades, I am a 2 on the track. I've ridden the track as many times as I've ridden rollers.

When we were juniors, Fred Rodriquez used to show off and ride the rollers with no hands and only one foot clipped in.

waterrockets 

Like UMD's teammate?

My mentor back in the day would ride rollers outside in the Colorado winter, and he'd go out with a couple jerseys on. As he warmed up, he would go no-handed and pull jerseys off over his head.

Yeah, so I didn't mess with that trick. I'd be on the floor with a broken spoke and my nose bleeding with a jersey covering my face and my arms stuck over my head.

redal

Yeah, Mark is pretty studly. You should see him climb up hills. He used to post on here. A couple of years ago there was a youtube very similar to that. It reminded me that Fred used to do that back when we were juniors. He broke his collarbone about six weeks before junior worlds in 1991. He was spending hours on the trainer and then the rollers once it had healed some. He finished 6th and helped Evanshine win.

big john

Gotta love 'Hocus Pocus' by Focus.

Racer Ex 

I did like 45 minutes in the P/1 then decided to pack it in because I was "saving" for the master's stuff the next two days. I should have just hung in and shot for a top 20 or something, I HOOVERED massively the following two days thanks to the heat and extending the first half of my season a few races too long. DNF DNF DNF for the weekend.

That crit was a blast though. Great bike handling, no crashes, and stupidly fast from the gun. I watched Z's race before us and guys were chewing tar going solo OTF, not surprised he got taken out, same thing happened to my carpool on Saturday in the 1/2.

There's more than a few 2's with cat5 bike handling skills floating around; it's why I don't do many 1/2 crits and just look for P/1 stuff.

wanders

He's (Mark) been immortalized on Sufferfest3 or 4 before they pulled them. Amazing.

ridethecliche

I wonder what happened to umd. Did he finally get completely sick of this place?

big john

He's been around the 41 lately. I invited him on a ride in November and he didn't respond. I thought he was mad at me.

txvintage

Damn it's cold and windy.

gsteinb

Snow day. P90X plyo. Bring it.

patentcad

Off day. I did shovel heavy snow for nearly an hour however, which was a bit of a workout. Now it's pouring rain on top of all that wet snow.

substructure

500 hours in the books

gsteinb

say what?

substructure

Me or Pcad?

If me: I've put in over 500 hours in my training log.
(speaking of log ...)

gsteinb

pcad is blocked, so you. since when?

substructure

January 1st. Does this seem odd or something? I figure most of you monsters are getting more than that with all the training, racing, and base mileage at the end of the season.

gsteinb

ah. I have 270 since mid sept.

botto 

two hours tempo w/teammate for today taken care of.

substructure

See? That's why I called y'all, Monsters. I have about 150.

gsteinb

My brain was fried. Somehow I forgot what month it was.

botto 

..

big john

Now this surprises me. Don't they have a ton of races in before they can get to the 2s? Or are they just idiots?
Seems like all of the 3s and 2s I have known are good bike handlers. Sometimes an ex-runner of some other highly trained dufus will come along and be able to climb well and stay around the faster guys but crash on descents and put everyone in danger in groups. Some of the kids are like this, too.