Rides and Races - boston - halloween race

costumes.. anyone wearing one? I can't decide

costumes.. anyone wearing one? I can't decide

thought about it... haven't decided yet either..

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**** guys, it is supposed to be ghosting out on tuesday night.

Better wear your, whatever the **** you where when it ghosts out.

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**** guys, it is supposed to be ghosting out on tuesday night.

Better wear your, whatever the **** you where when it ghosts out.


garlic

garlic

It's not vampiring out, that would just be silly.

gotta get a ghost proof shell

gotta get a ghost proof shell

Would that be made out of ghos-tex.... haha I make myself laugh with bad jokes

Rob or Chris, I need some direction here. Let me know what I need to do.

cant wait.

Good news everybody: Free cover at Zuzu with your spokecard. Hooray!

I apologize in advance for the checkpoint tasks y'all will be doing.

Also, like Chris said, we won't be announcing the checkpoints. But I'll warn you that the course hits many major neighborhoods. Plan your transitions. Also, this will be an ordered race. Do the checkpoints in order. See you tomorrow!!

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I was going to be all triplets of belleville, but that would be like, actual effort, and I have a hard enough time waking up in the morning, nevermind actually hunting down costume materials.

anyone riding from Allston tonight?

i am literally getting sugar-rush type pulses of excitment for this **** throughout the day.

my first alleycat: got almost to the 3rd checkpoint, then realized i had lost both my manifest and my spokecard. then i came home and drank. ha ha ha. it was fun while it lasted though, i'd definitely do it again.

good times... gooood times!

thanks for a great race guys! everyone knows that DFL is the best place. happy halloween!

thanks for a great race guys! everyone knows that DFL is the best place. happy halloween!

hahaha, didn't you come in the top 3 at the last one though?

my second alleycat: better than halfway to the fourth checkpoint, flipped myself over the bars (yeah i use my brake) like an idiot, and take the fall entirely on my right hand, nicely jamming my wrist. took myself home and sat on the couch. it was fun while it lasted, and someday i'll finish one of these races :-)

How do you all destroy your manifests? Every one that I signed was moist and in 8 pieces.

hahaha, didn't you come in the top 3 at the last one though?

Yup. The god damn flat tires that get ya and it was my friend DAn's first alleycat (we wanted to do it together... aawwwwwwwww [ewwwwwww?])

How do you all destroy your manifests? Every one that I signed was moist and in 8 pieces.


last time (evac. bos.) I lost all but one tiny piece of mine... this time I keeped it dry and in tact the whole night...

my second alleycat: better than halfway to the fourth checkpoint, flipped myself over the bars (yeah i use my brake) like an idiot, and take the fall entirely on my right hand, nicely jamming my wrist. took myself home and sat on the couch. it was fun while it lasted, and someday i'll finish one of these races :-)

sorry to hear that man... hope you're ok, you coming out thursday?

couldn't have had a better night for it.

One of these days I'm going to bring a map so I can crack the top 10.

Also screw vegimite. URGH.

Who's got video/pictures of lastnight?? if they are any good post that ****..

great race.
i finished just under 2 hours. didn't place or anything, but i still finished god damn it.
i got so lost in north charlestown, somerville and cambridge the three neighborhoods i dont know well.

all in all a great time. ZuZu's was fun too. I got so **** faced off 2 beers. (3 if you count the Narragansett i pounded outside of zuzu's)

so who's down for the boston-providence race?

Also screw vegimite. URGH.

That vegimite is now sitting in my bag, as i claimed that it was tasty while eating it.
Granted, pretty much anything with salt in it would have been tasty at that point.

I'm interested in the boston-providence ride. i heard nov 19'th as a date?

I'm in... and I'm starting a boston/providence thread so it can by dicussed sperately

Also screw vegimite. URGH.

haha I was spitting that **** out half way down comm ave.

I also found the full lyrics to i'm a little teacup. I think maybe 1 person got the whole thing:
I'm a little teacup short and stout, here is my handle, here is my spout. When I get all steamed up, here me shout, tip me over and pour me out.

I am so proud of my little vegemite check point.

Great times last night. Thanks to all for coming out. A special mention to Jacobs for ripping his derailleur off on the opening stretch; hopefully your frame isn't toast. There were 52 racers total, and 39 of them finished all the checkpoints. The lead group finished the 18 mile course in 1:10, and DFL came in over an hour later at 2:12. Cash prizes went to top three finishers, plus first lady, and there was a special prize for first "Clydesdale" (or racer of "impressive stature"). Here are partial results:

1. Tyler Sage (on a fixed gear!)
2. Lucas Brunelle
3. Peter Bradshaw
4. Craig Roth
5. Pete Rubiano
6. Josh
7. Skizza
8. Rhoulin
9. Howell (aka Fatbat)
10. Tony

First lady: Lodri!
First Fat Kid / Clydesdale: Andrew, who won 5 pounds of candy
DFL: Luke and Dan, who won my broken crank arm, lovingly fashioned into a necklace by yours truly. They also got their money back.

Thanks again, y'all. Let's do it again sometime.

Rob

I also found the full lyrics to i'm a little teacup. I think maybe 1 person got the whole thing:
I'm a little teacup short and stout, here is my handle, here is my spout. When I get all steamed up, here me shout, tip me over and pour me out.

I am so proud of my little vegemite check point.
I saw that stuff, and I'm like, "Oh chocolate sauce on crackers, I'll see if I can get the smallest one I can get, because that's a gross combo!" Needless to say, I would've sang the song to its full extent had my entire mouth not been engulfed with so much salt.

I went through half a bottle of gatorade to get the taste of that out of my mouth. Actually pretty much all the checkpoints were absolute pain, what with that maple syrup, pizza sauce, the pumkin shot, the tabasco/vodka shot (which I had to do both pushups, and another shot because I have "The Slapshot" gloves).... All I wanted was water.... Just good fluid....

My frame is very toast, broke both the seatstay and chainstay. I never should have owned such a fragile piece of plastic anyways.

Good times, glad I got to do the second half of the race.

1. Tyler Sage (on a fixed gear!)
2. Lucas Brunelle
3. Peter Bradshaw
4. Craig Roth
5. Pete Rubiano
6. Josh
7. Skizza
8. Rhoulin
9. Howell (aka Fatbat)
10. Tony


Why did you note tyler was on a fixie? does that mean the rest of the top ten wasn't? just wonder'n

I think both Peter and Lucas were on road bikes. Not sure about the rest but I can vouch for the difficulty of beating Lucas and Peter with a fixed gear.

I see

sounds like a lot of fun!

I've never done an alleycat but definitely will in the near future. would anybody not mind posting where the start/checkpoints/finish were, by any chance? I'd really like to ride through it sometime and see what i'm in for. :D

sounds like a lot of fun!

I've never done an alleycat but definitely will in the near future. would anybody not mind posting where the start/checkpoints/finish were, by any chance? I'd really like to ride through it sometime and see what i'm in for. :D


do the boston providence race.


PS.. ZuZu

i found a pocket full of candy that i think i stole from you. so **** faced.

checkpoints:

boylston & tremont, boston
7 sherman st., charlestown
11 prospect hill ave., somerville
mt. auburn & coolidge ave., cambridge
594 cambridge st., allston
263 shawmut ave., boston
tremont & bromfield, boston
210 sidney st., cambridge
474 mass ave, cambridge

checkpoints:

boylston & tremont, boston
7 sherman st., charlestown
11 prospect hill ave., somerville
mt. auburn & coolidge ave., cambridge
594 cambridge st., allston
263 shawmut ave., boston
tremont & bromfield, boston
210 sidney st., cambridge
474 mass ave, cambridge

awesome

Here's a pedometer of the course, roughly: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=522988

I added the South End checkpoint (Shawmut Ave) a few hours before the race and subtracted a Jamaica Plain checkpoint. The old course looked something like this: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=514494

It's only a couple miles longer, but I took out a second hill climb that would've been annoying for people who'd worked all day, probably.

Jacob, sorry to hear about the frame. I just bought a replacement fork for that one that got smashed when I got hit. Maybe the bent one can be a DFL prize for a future race.

sorry to hear that man... hope you're ok, you coming out thursday?

probably not, i've been doing my commute and working in spite of it, which had it's painful points, but i'm not going to put the wrist through anything i can avoid. I kinda want to know how much air i got, it felt like i was effing flying when it happened, i was seriously expecting to get run over.

probably not, i've been doing my commute and working in spite of it, which had it's painful points, but i'm not going to put the wrist through anything i can avoid. I kinda want to know how much air i got, it felt like i was effing flying when it happened, i was seriously expecting to get run over.


Damn, that really sucks man... when/where did this happen, it seems like I remember seeing you toward the last 2 Chk pts and you where all smiles? but I can't remember exactly when I saw you....

Damn, that really sucks man... when/where did this happen, it seems like I remember seeing you toward the last 2 Chk pts and you where all smiles? but I can't remember exactly when I saw you....

this was on the way to the 4th checkpoint, i was coming down the cambridge street bridge over the highway towards allston, i thought the car was going left, it decided to go straight, i slammed on the breaks and flipped over the bars. good times.