Random Thought Thread, aka The RTT (**possible spoilers**)
03-18-13, 07:00 AM
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Son's 9th birthday this past weekend. No racing for me at the 'home' race. Oh well. Still fat and overworked. Rain in the forecast today.
03-18-13, 07:29 AM
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03-18-13, 10:12 AM
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Race this weekend was interesting. Fayetteville SR, Cat-4/5. Stage 1 had a guy who in the closing kilometer (center line still in effect), attacked from the rear of the field, up the left lane while shouting, "Outside, outside!" At the protest of everyone else who was spinning up for the finish line, he came to the front, and headbutted his way into and across the pack leaders. Full force, headbutt all the way across the lane. He then proceeded to turn around an curse, shout and gesticulate to the rest of the racers. I don't know how this guy can get on a bike with balls that big.
After crossing the finish line, there's a down hill portion where everyone cools from the race. With an other wise open road, I took a drink of water (or turned off my Garmin, not sure) to find that someone directly in front of me had suddenly locked his brakes. I plowed into him at around 25 mph, flipped the bike and landed on my face. As I lay in the road, I looked up to see the guy who'd stopped in front of me, just staring. Never said a word to me, just watched.
Thankfully, the injuries turned out to be much less severe than they could have been. After a trip to the ER, I was found to have a broken nose, a wide cut across the bridge of my nose, nearly to the bone, and various other bang ups. Got back from the ER in time to put on some aerobars, change and ride to the TT. Had an OK TT, and wrapped up the race the next day, though I looked like **** doing it.
Worked my ass off for the team in the final stage, crossing OTB, but still mid field, as things were pretty blown apart. Unfortunately, I dropped 10 places in the GC on stage 3, but two team mates came in 4 and 5 for the day.
I'm proud of the my team, and myself. We rode strong and well this weekend, even if things didn't pan out quite how we'd have liked.
After crossing the finish line, there's a down hill portion where everyone cools from the race. With an other wise open road, I took a drink of water (or turned off my Garmin, not sure) to find that someone directly in front of me had suddenly locked his brakes. I plowed into him at around 25 mph, flipped the bike and landed on my face. As I lay in the road, I looked up to see the guy who'd stopped in front of me, just staring. Never said a word to me, just watched.
Thankfully, the injuries turned out to be much less severe than they could have been. After a trip to the ER, I was found to have a broken nose, a wide cut across the bridge of my nose, nearly to the bone, and various other bang ups. Got back from the ER in time to put on some aerobars, change and ride to the TT. Had an OK TT, and wrapped up the race the next day, though I looked like **** doing it.
Worked my ass off for the team in the final stage, crossing OTB, but still mid field, as things were pretty blown apart. Unfortunately, I dropped 10 places in the GC on stage 3, but two team mates came in 4 and 5 for the day.
I'm proud of the my team, and myself. We rode strong and well this weekend, even if things didn't pan out quite how we'd have liked.
03-18-13, 10:57 AM
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03-18-13, 12:58 PM
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After the racing this weekend hooked up with EDR, house guest for a couple of days in from Texas. After dinner my old dog who has been limping the last few days starts bleeding from somewhere around her undercarriage. Emergency vet run at 9PM. She had an abscess from either an insect bite or some other thing of that nature. Got out of there at 11:30 $500 lighter. She's super uncomfortable and pacing a lot today.
I'm tired.
At least I didn't Dolomite (we need to bring this into 33 lexicon). Glad you're OK.
I'm tired.
At least I didn't Dolomite (we need to bring this into 33 lexicon). Glad you're OK.
03-18-13, 01:26 PM
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Making a kilometer blurry
Good luck to the pooch. Glad EDR got out there for the hookup.
We had some blood yesterday too. My youngest (7) was tearing around a corner on his bike and hit a 6" deep pile of leaves. Went down and gouged the hell out of his knee with the rough chipseal below the leaves. Didn't cost me $500 though, and he gets to walk around in cool white fishnet.
I like it that my kids ride around at their traction limit though. No encouragement from me -- they just like it. Nobody has asked to do a Jr race yet though...
We had some blood yesterday too. My youngest (7) was tearing around a corner on his bike and hit a 6" deep pile of leaves. Went down and gouged the hell out of his knee with the rough chipseal below the leaves. Didn't cost me $500 though, and he gets to walk around in cool white fishnet.
I like it that my kids ride around at their traction limit though. No encouragement from me -- they just like it. Nobody has asked to do a Jr race yet though...
03-18-13, 01:27 PM
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Dolomite or WR+Squirrel, yeesh.
03-18-13, 01:29 PM
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Making a kilometer blurry
I still wish I knew wth I hit. That was one expensive crash. In other news, I actually made it all the way through Spring Break without a hospital visit before it this year.
03-18-13, 01:53 PM
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Good luck to the pooch. Glad EDR got out there for the hookup.
We had some blood yesterday too. My youngest (7) was tearing around a corner on his bike and hit a 6" deep pile of leaves. Went down and gouged the hell out of his knee with the rough chipseal below the leaves. Didn't cost me $500 though, and he gets to walk around in cool white fishnet.
I like it that my kids ride around at their traction limit though. No encouragement from me -- they just like it. Nobody has asked to do a Jr race yet though...
We had some blood yesterday too. My youngest (7) was tearing around a corner on his bike and hit a 6" deep pile of leaves. Went down and gouged the hell out of his knee with the rough chipseal below the leaves. Didn't cost me $500 though, and he gets to walk around in cool white fishnet.
I like it that my kids ride around at their traction limit though. No encouragement from me -- they just like it. Nobody has asked to do a Jr race yet though...
I found the perfect pic but can't post it here
03-18-13, 01:55 PM
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I'm still trying to figure out what Kwaki was doing gesticulating in Fayetville.
03-18-13, 02:06 PM
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03-18-13, 02:08 PM
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03-18-13, 02:56 PM
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There was a guy who's new in town and linked up with a new team. There was a lot of buzz that he's an ex-pro and raced with this guy and so and so. Based on his riding, and a bit of poking on the interweb it seems it's all a game of catfish. Why a guy would pretend to be a low level pro who no one has ever heard of is a bit confusing. Maybe he's been head butted a bit too many times.
03-18-13, 05:45 PM
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bad driving
This happened sat at the NCC crit in Tampa...watch just before 10:00. The Mtn Khakis guy was pissed needless to say.
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03-18-13, 06:04 PM
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Race this weekend was interesting. Fayetteville SR, Cat-4/5. Stage 1 had a guy who in the closing kilometer (center line still in effect), attacked from the rear of the field, up the left lane while shouting, "Outside, outside!" At the protest of everyone else who was spinning up for the finish line, he came to the front, and headbutted his way into and across the pack leaders. Full force, headbutt all the way across the lane. He then proceeded to turn around an curse, shout and gesticulate to the rest of the racers. I don't know how this guy can get on a bike with balls that big.
After crossing the finish line, there's a down hill portion where everyone cools from the race. With an other wise open road, I took a drink of water (or turned off my Garmin, not sure) to find that someone directly in front of me had suddenly locked his brakes. I plowed into him at around 25 mph, flipped the bike and landed on my face. As I lay in the road, I looked up to see the guy who'd stopped in front of me, just staring. Never said a word to me, just watched.
Thankfully, the injuries turned out to be much less severe than they could have been. After a trip to the ER, I was found to have a broken nose, a wide cut across the bridge of my nose, nearly to the bone, and various other bang ups. Got back from the ER in time to put on some aerobars, change and ride to the TT. Had an OK TT, and wrapped up the race the next day, though I looked like **** doing it.
Worked my ass off for the team in the final stage, crossing OTB, but still mid field, as things were pretty blown apart. Unfortunately, I dropped 10 places in the GC on stage 3, but two team mates came in 4 and 5 for the day.
I'm proud of the my team, and myself. We rode strong and well this weekend, even if things didn't pan out quite how we'd have liked.
After crossing the finish line, there's a down hill portion where everyone cools from the race. With an other wise open road, I took a drink of water (or turned off my Garmin, not sure) to find that someone directly in front of me had suddenly locked his brakes. I plowed into him at around 25 mph, flipped the bike and landed on my face. As I lay in the road, I looked up to see the guy who'd stopped in front of me, just staring. Never said a word to me, just watched.
Thankfully, the injuries turned out to be much less severe than they could have been. After a trip to the ER, I was found to have a broken nose, a wide cut across the bridge of my nose, nearly to the bone, and various other bang ups. Got back from the ER in time to put on some aerobars, change and ride to the TT. Had an OK TT, and wrapped up the race the next day, though I looked like **** doing it.
Worked my ass off for the team in the final stage, crossing OTB, but still mid field, as things were pretty blown apart. Unfortunately, I dropped 10 places in the GC on stage 3, but two team mates came in 4 and 5 for the day.
I'm proud of the my team, and myself. We rode strong and well this weekend, even if things didn't pan out quite how we'd have liked.
heal up soon.
and i hope the dirt-bag who headbutted his way up got dq'ed.
03-18-13, 08:19 PM
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Dude who won the crash race is a 2 who works at Google and a WPH regular in LA. We're technically coworkers. This is not relevant to anything but a fun coincidence.
03-18-13, 08:58 PM
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03-18-13, 09:49 PM
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Unfortunately, he didn't; he was assessed a :30 penalty for the center line violation. No mention of the headbutting what so ever. I was pretty shocked about that. At least he didn't show up on stage 3. There were a lot of folks that thought the guy took enough crap from the other racers that he took himself out, but I was pretty upset that he wasn't DQ'd.