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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 05-24-13, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Leesburg.
Are you shopping for a horse farm?
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i also have a very exciting update.

i discovered that the very fragrant weed that has taken up most of the back yard is catmint. (not catnip, but in the same family) not a native species, but now for some reason i'm not so annoyed by it, and will probably leave it where it has grown up around some rocks that outline the back garden. err.. brush pile. it should have purple flowers in a few weeks. we've never seen them before because the mowed part never gets big enough.
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Take my time... then say what?
Reply with:

"How many guesses do I get? "
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Originally Posted by RollCNY
Reply with:

"How many guesses do I get? "
haha. that's good too.
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haha. that's good too.
Ah crap, I went with "Hi! Good trip?". This was much better. Ah well, that can't be a big issue.
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Old 05-24-13, 01:26 PM
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Wow, I hope I never need social advice from a cycling forum. Fail, fail, and fail.

Sage advice:

Quote Originally Posted by CPU Girl

Hey guess who is back in town?
Jenny?*
*Assuming her name isn't Jenny.
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Ah crap, I went with "Hi! Good trip?". This was much better. Ah well, that can't be a big issue.
That will work.
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That will work.
No answer yet, of course.

On the other hand, going to hang out with my new friend tomorrow, which will be good.
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Good luck with that Humbug.

Sheesh, I am way glad to be out of the dating pool.
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I am a family man, thankfully....let's see if I can show a recent pic...

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Oh?
The hostess @ lunch said "nice socks, Lester!"

You KNOW she wants some of this.
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I am a family man, thankfully....let's see if I can show a recent pic...
Adorable kid. Eighth grade graduation? And how tall are you?
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Originally Posted by halfspeed
One of the reasons I like going to the Mayo Clinic for health care is that the doctors aren't paid piece work so they have time to actually talk to patients.
Before I knew what the Mayo Clinic was, that gag in Airplane! was funnier.
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And I get to take some time out from real life crap to drop in and say hello.

Remember when I said I wasn't prone to crushes? Well, it's finally happened, and there goes my sanity.
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Remember when I said I wasn't prone to crushes? Well, it's finally happened, and there goes my sanity.
Join the club. I'm waiting for mine to get back to me...
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Adorable kid. Eighth grade graduation? And how tall are you?
Yeah that's Hannah....13, 7th grade sunday school "graduation." My other daughter is also adorable and 11.

I am 6 feet, maybe 6 feet 1/2 inch if I stand up really straight. 138 pounds as of today. The tee-shirt is the giveaway from last weekend's tri.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Yeah that's Hannah....13, 7th grade sunday school "graduation." My other daughter is also adorable and 11.

I am 6 feet, maybe 6 feet 1/2 inch if I stand up really straight. 138 pounds as of today. The tee-shirt is the giveaway from last weekend's tri.
Ok, YOU are not too fat for this sport. Geezus, I'd have to lose 65 lbs to get where you are (6'1")!
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Originally Posted by datlas
Yeah that's Hannah....13, 7th grade sunday school "graduation." My other daughter is also adorable and 11.

I am 6 feet, maybe 6 feet 1/2 inch if I stand up really straight. 138 pounds as of today. The tee-shirt is the giveaway from last weekend's tri.
That's why you look so tall; you're skin and bones! Wow that's light. You should be blasting me off the course...
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Join the club. I'm waiting for mine to get back to me...
Yes, but I'm 35 and far too old for this crap.
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Yes, but I'm 35 and far too old for this crap.
I'm only five years younger than you.
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I'm only five years younger than you.
I am 48 now.

Get off my lawn!

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I am 48 now.

Get off my lawn!

I am also 48, but how on EARTH do you stay at 140? Do you restrict calories?
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
The hostess @ lunch said "nice socks, Lester!"

You KNOW she wants some of this.
Were you wearing these socks?

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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Join the club. I'm waiting for mine to get back to me...

She must be unpacking.
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I was looking at last week's tri times....the fastest runner did the 5K in 15 minutes flat. That's a 4:50 mile pace.

Wow.

OTOH the dude was terrible in the swim and the bike and finished in the bottom half overall.
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