El Diablo Rojo

Next to HTFU in the dictionary now carries your picture.

wens

Haha about her friends. She's going to grad school next year, so maybe I can hit those up. Stay at home dad who trains all day sounds alright

ETA About my sig, my best buddy at school is a civil. Great opportunity to practice getting a rise out of them.

gsteinb

trigger

2nd "big" race tomorrow. I'm mostly worried about catching back on after having to stop and puke 2 or 3 laps in. RR.

big john

Puking is over rated.

trigger

I'll try to keep that in mind.

big john

How long is the race? Climbing?

trigger

It's not long ... I'm a chick. But yeah, some climbing and mostly just me being all freaked out ... I'll settle down once the race starts. I got dropped on my first real race (though finished better than DFL) and my goal is to try to stay with the pack as long as I can on this one. That's going to involve more suffering than I've experienced before. Is it sick that other than the butterflies I'm looking forward to that?

hammy56

Got run into a ditch today on a 35+mph descent by some stupid pos m effer who was afraid to lean his bike over more than a few degrees. He swung all the way across the road into me (long downhill right-hander). Managed by the grace of God not to crash. I really dont know how i didnt. Got back on the road and tried to chase, failed. Still finished strong about mid field of 80.

Then one of aero bars came apart on my borrowed tt bike 2 miles into a 4.5 mi tt.

I hope tomorrow is better.

Best thing about today was meeting mollusk and kensuf. Good folks.

mzeffex 

Just registered for my first road race, a crit in MA, July 10. Oh god.

botto 

greg, you know many things about many things, but clearly footy is not one of them.

Flatballer

that was a helluva game. had our chances to actually win.

johnybutts

:thumbsup:

Kai Winters

Ugh! a mommy duck and 8 chicks got in the mill today. Mommy got scared and ran under the paper machine...feathers and parts everywhere...shut everything down and an hour clean up...ick...several babies are still wandering the mill but most were caught and will be raised by one of the guys.

big john

Maybe you'll stay on until the end! My friend got dropped in her first race and she organized the other dropees and they worked their way back toward the lead group.

echappist

goddamn it, a teammate (also races for dave jordan/zephyr) crashed this morning in brooklyn and took it on the face pretty seriously. it seems he's outta the hospital already, so that's good.

El Diablo Rojo

dude I meant that you are the definition of what it means to HTFU. I meant that as a compliment.

gsteinb

aww shucks, thanks. I still DNFed though. That'll leave a mark. I'm gonna try like hell to win that crit tomorrow, should it be dry.

mollusk

It will be a MUCH harder course. I hope that your racing luck is better.


So, who were the "good folks" that you met?

See you tomorrow AM. Maybe tomorrow I will remember to take the thermos full of freshly brewed espresso instead of leaving it on the counter like I did this morning.

Also there are a bunch of Velobrew BFer's there parked just a couple of places away from where you parked.

Grumpy McTrumpy

I caught back on and held until the last turn onto whiteface. second wheel going in, last in the remaining pack at the line. total bonk. nearly passed out.

12th in 35+

substructure

got in the break in the masters nc crit championship but cracked at the end. had my nose out in the wind too much.
top 10 somewhere.

more racing tomorrow.

my legs hurt.

Greg180

I'm trying man. Got to believe that that the 6.2 billion people that are into soccer know something i don't. We are finally getting into cycling so there has to be hope...

Flatballer

got the blinds installed, got the new deadbolt installed (I now have two deadbolts). The hole saw I had sucked, and the pilot bit broke towards the end. Stupid metal doors, they were owning my bi-metal hole saws.

hammy56

Grumpy McTrumpy

I was on this recording session. Frankie's last I think.