Homebrew01

Speaking of sad news, the very attractive woman at work is leaving for another job.

MDcatV

skiing at copper mountain next week! I've never gone this late, but should be a fun time!

gsteinb

huh. so ill advised to send my SS#, scan of my signature, and 2 credit card numbers?

Homebrew01

Send them to me. I am currently travelling in Europe and had my passport and wallet stolen. Can you please wire $2500 to me so I can get new documents, and then I will repay you when I am back home ....

topflightpro

I'm in too.

Time Out is known for its Chicken Biscuits, but that's more of a late night, post drinking kind of place. Otherwise, it's pretty standard bar food.

If you want Carolina BBQ - vinegar based sauce that took me a long time to get used to - we could hit The Pig or head up to The Pit in Durham and then pop in to Fullsteam Brewery for a beer or two.

If you want a good beer selection closer to Chapel Hill, there's Tylers or Milltown, both of which have decent food.

And if you want really good, kind of fancy food - the kind of stuff that gets written about in fancy publications, well, then we need to go up to Durham.

Wanders probably knows some of those places.

globecanvas

I submitted my cat 3 upgrade, but it turns out that one race last summer reported incorrect results to USAC. Way too long ago to get fixed now. Leaving me exactly one point short of the upgrade.


I'm sure I'll pick up that point (I have scored points in every race this year so far), but I kind of wanted this to be done already. Oh well.

botto 

Schelderprijs, formerly known as Schoten, at least to me.My Shaved Legs...: Frites met pain

gsteinb

I'm easy. I don't drink, so that's not much of a concern for me personally. I like food, so good food, is well, err good.

echappist

lemme guess, your buddy rides for UHC?

also, speaking of UHC, the corporate group apparently also owns Optum (yes, as in the Optum p/b Kelly Benefits, or whatever they are currently called)

Creatre

They were that picky about it? They let me upgrade with 29.

edit: actually looked it up, and they rejected me with 29 and I ended up getting 4 more points the next race. /shrug. I kind of believe that after a point, the pattern is made and they should realize that and allow since it's being dragged out. But I guess rules are rules.

globecanvas

Yeah, the rules are the rules, that's fine. If they let people slide with N-1 points, they might as well make the rule N-1, and so on.


What's annoying is the situation with this one race: I finished 2nd in a crit I did last summer, which was shortened by a thunderstorm, so the finish was hectic. The promoter put the correct results on their web site the next day, but never reported results to USAC that I could find, despite my nagging. Now it turns out they did report results to USAC at the end of the season, but they are incorrect, and the online results don't exist any more, I can't dredge them up using any sort of wayback caching, and it doesn't matter anyway because the promoter didn't respond to my emails a year ago so there's no reason to expect them to make the effort to correct year-old results now. So, three points vanished.


What's extra annoying is I thought I needed one more point before Battenkill, and I got 3 points there. And now I need one more point again!


But like I said, it's fine. I'll get one more point eventually. It was just a goal of mine, silly as it might be, to have Battenkill be my last 4 race, just as it was my last 5 race last year.

gsteinb

NYC seems to be moving away from masters racing. No masters' fields at Orchard Beach, Bear Mt, or Harlem.

Creatre

80 degrees and sunny forecasted today. Guess I should hop on the steed and enjoy it.

But the bed feels so nice. *yawwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnn*

gsteinb

41

why not pull an arrow from you quiver and put your ass over it?

shovelhd

Hard to understand why. It's not like we don't show up to race.

ovoleg

i really have to clean the house before my girlfriend flies in this evening. She will flip a lid from what the dogs have done to our little abode lol.

but naptime and chilling seems pretty high on the list.

decisions, decisions...

jsutkeepspining

Had to get blood drawn and give a urine sample today for a health insurance thing. I was fine with the blood part, but my body said no to the urine sample part. I eventually peed, btu it turns out now i have to wait another week to give it

rideaz

If it was me, I'd nap & chill then frantically clean for about 20 minutes before she gets home!

ovoleg

This is what I'm about to do hahah

ovoleg

watching the Novant Health Invitational Crit Charlotte, live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE0L5O9Gy3Y#t=1591

ips0803

Pretty sure we had a crash in our race today because some kid's go pro came off his mount and he reacted to try and grab it (it had a backup string so it has hanging).

Awesome.

valygrl

I pre-rode it today - along with dozens of other people, the parking lot at the school looked like it was race day!

The second half of the gravel, after you crest the hill and start down, is really loose and squrimy on the right. Left lane is better, but of course, not allowed. Who knows what it will be like next weekend after tomorrow's snowstorm.

ovoleg

wow $500 primes

tetonrider

nice job at battenkill, gc!

the rules are the rules but the reps have discretion. in fact, they can refuse an upgrade to people who just have the minimum.

in your case, you truly did earn it; what surprises me is that you were denied the upgrade -- assuming you explained the situation to the rep. if i put myself in your shoes, i think i might send a polite email to your rep (separate email addy should be listed on the USAC site) and explain the situation; perhaps also ask him/her if there is anything you can do. it can't hurt and is minimal trouble.

it's not like you are asking for something you didn't earn.

mattm

There should be a clinic about GoPros falling off.