Pictures of you suffering in a race (please credit photographer)
02-25-08, 02:56 PM
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It's meant in good humor, I hope it's taken that way
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02-25-08, 02:58 PM
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02-25-08, 04:31 PM
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Looks like I am late to this thread. This was taken Last season at the Marx and Bensdorf Stage race in Memphis last year. I am on the front being stupid for the camera ....Yes I have learned stay back a few spots till the end.
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02-25-08, 04:39 PM
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Waterrockets, you're a sick ******* if you're suffering in that picture.
02-25-08, 04:54 PM
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If a guy makes his way to the sharp end late in the day, hasn't done a bit of work all day and starts to try to tear your legs off then start yelling at him and call him a f*ck head. Tell him I said so.
02-25-08, 05:11 PM
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Making a kilometer blurry
02-25-08, 05:14 PM
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02-25-08, 05:35 PM
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You especially want to break guys like Waterrockets. Otherwise they will roll over you in the last 200m. Like I said take him out hard all day and just keep hitting him. Eventually you will suck the life out of his sprint legs and blow his farken doors right off.
02-25-08, 06:29 PM
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When you are in a small group you need to know who is there with you. Sometimes it is best to go to the front and suffer knowing that you are making everyone else suffer a whole lot more. Other times it is best to fall to the back and eat off everyone else's plate.
02-25-08, 06:56 PM
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Making a kilometer blurry
I'm working on it though. It's already going much better than last year...
But the point stands, you do not want me in your break at the finish if you've been friendly to me.
02-25-08, 08:09 PM
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Why? You look reasonably fit and the guys behind look reasonably fat. Race to your limit all day. If that means going to the front on several occasions to maintain a frenetic pace then so be it. Break as many as you can as early as you can.
If a guy makes his way to the sharp end late in the day, hasn't done a bit of work all day and starts to try to tear your legs off then start yelling at him and call him a f*ck head. Tell him I said so.
If a guy makes his way to the sharp end late in the day, hasn't done a bit of work all day and starts to try to tear your legs off then start yelling at him and call him a f*ck head. Tell him I said so.
02-25-08, 08:25 PM
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You takin' a shot at me Daytonian?
02-25-08, 08:33 PM
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02-25-08, 08:38 PM
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I have kids of my own, I can relate.
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02-25-08, 08:43 PM
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02-25-08, 09:20 PM
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Hi,
I smile when I suffer:
I only frown when I get dropped.
I smile a little less when I'm off the front:
I smile when I suffer:
I only frown when I get dropped.
I smile a little less when I'm off the front:
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02-25-08, 09:45 PM
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Holey "I was playing around in photoshop without really knowing what I was doing" Batman!!!!!!!!!! 
Hang on a second. Is that really off the front? Arent you like 3 metres ahead? Still at least you aren't hiding from anyone.
Originally Posted by Cleave
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02-25-08, 09:51 PM
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That is when the excuses start. Oh I just couldnt get a run, Oh I just missed this gear or that gear.....and on and on. There arent too many blokes prepared to just say '**** I just got my pants pulled down.
If you cant sprint - stop pretending you can and race as hard as you can from the gun. The sport is boring enough as it is without having to deal with imaginary sprinters who never actually launch a sprint!!