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That's pretty obscene when you think about it. "Let's let them kill themselves, if need be, for our increased entertainment. The fireball on that last crash wasn't exciting at all."
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#7202
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Oh it makes sense. We haven't progressed very far from the days of the gladiators where blood and gore is entertainment.
/soapbox
/soapbox
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Did my good deed for the week. A group of us from my tramping (hiking) club went and helped some farmers clean up flood debris from their farms. A day of picking tangled grass, roots, branches out from fences, often in calf deep mud is hard work. I'll be stiff and sore tomorrow.
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Bees are loving this cactus
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I picked a great two days to go car camping. Hope to take a ride tomorrow out to the bay to look for birds and horseshoe crabs mating. Don’t think I’ll be building any campfires.
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Premise for a Sci-fi horror flick.
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Club ride turnout continues to increase but there is a group which is starting around the corner from the usual start site. I went to the main start where many were doing the 94 mile route and I decided to start with them and then maybe join the shorter route riders at the first stop as both routes had the same scheduled stop. The pace was too high for me after the first several hills even though they kept waiting for the stragglers and encouraged me to do the 94. At the first rest stop the B group didn't show up. Never spoke to them as they started away from us.
I decided to ride with the A group a little longer to see how I felt, and after some more climbing/chasing I started thinking about just riding back alone at my own pace. At the bottom of a long descent there was a guy who had been with the B group and he got separated and told me they were back up the hill somewhere and had not made a stop. He roared off to look for them and I told the A group I was going to go, too, which earned booing, name calling, and goodbyes from them. I caught the other group after a couple miles but never saw the other chaser again.
Then, of course, the faster riders there wanted to hammer and blew the group apart. This required waiting and phone calls to the lost but eventually everyone made it to their food stop. Naturally, I ate again despite having snacked at the stop with the other group. The slower members wanted to let the hammerheads go so I stayed back to cruise the last 25 miles with them. When the headwind started I went to the front to try and pull them but it seemed they didn't know what I was doing. Finally one of the women got on my wheel. When the last 3 mile climb came, one of them stopped. I went back to see if she was ok. She said she was recovering from back surgery and taking medication for other issues. Also, she is 65 and hasn't been riding a lot since her back problems started. A very tough woman! She was cheerful and after some stretching we made the slow crawl up the hill. The others were waiting at the summit and we cruised to the finish together, except for the time an e-scooter passed us and I just couldn't take it and had to chase him down and drop his ass.
I decided to ride with the A group a little longer to see how I felt, and after some more climbing/chasing I started thinking about just riding back alone at my own pace. At the bottom of a long descent there was a guy who had been with the B group and he got separated and told me they were back up the hill somewhere and had not made a stop. He roared off to look for them and I told the A group I was going to go, too, which earned booing, name calling, and goodbyes from them. I caught the other group after a couple miles but never saw the other chaser again.
Then, of course, the faster riders there wanted to hammer and blew the group apart. This required waiting and phone calls to the lost but eventually everyone made it to their food stop. Naturally, I ate again despite having snacked at the stop with the other group. The slower members wanted to let the hammerheads go so I stayed back to cruise the last 25 miles with them. When the headwind started I went to the front to try and pull them but it seemed they didn't know what I was doing. Finally one of the women got on my wheel. When the last 3 mile climb came, one of them stopped. I went back to see if she was ok. She said she was recovering from back surgery and taking medication for other issues. Also, she is 65 and hasn't been riding a lot since her back problems started. A very tough woman! She was cheerful and after some stretching we made the slow crawl up the hill. The others were waiting at the summit and we cruised to the finish together, except for the time an e-scooter passed us and I just couldn't take it and had to chase him down and drop his ass.
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Oops - guess I shoulda checked the StreetView on today's hastily made road cyclin' route. I had about 5 miles of this, which was fun and shady, but not exactly in the R3's wheelhouse.
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Does not compute.
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#7217
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Berks Country is where my ancestors landed, after disembarking in Philadelphia between 1734-43.
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Speaking of cicadas, we don't have any here in the northwest metro Atlanta area. I also don't remember any in 2004, 1987 or 1970. I wasn't around in 1953.
I guess I'm lucky/unlucky depending on your point of view.
I guess I'm lucky/unlucky depending on your point of view.
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Ooh, those logos are a lot bigger than they are on mlb.tv
Beautiful!
Beautiful!
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