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Old 01-28-14, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Creakyknees
Just got a call from my gym... turns out I have 9, NINE unused personal training sessions left over from previous years that I had completely forgotten about.

How should I use them?
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Originally Posted by Ygduf
Judging by how close I lose c3 races with a decidedly wimpier sprint, I wouldn't worry about power. Focus on practice and you'll have results.
this.

I tell everyone I have a **** sprint, but truth it I'm just as strong in a sprint as 99% of my race fields. I just suck at timing, jump, and being in the right place going in to it, so it makes my mediocre/average sprint look extremely sub par.

A little experience and practice will go a long way.
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I was thinking about what secession would look like. Well, aside from me relocating. It's interesting because of assets like Ft. Hood and Ft. Bliss. Those are some serious installations.
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kind of reads like a Beck song.

Cocaine claymore and a terrorist threat teflon bullets with the supersonic white noise
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Originally Posted by Ygduf
kind of reads like a Beck song.

Cocaine claymore and a terrorist threat teflon bullets with the supersonic white noise
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Old 01-28-14, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by waterrockets
I was thinking about what secession would look like. Well, aside from me relocating. It's interesting because of assets like Ft. Hood and Ft. Bliss. Those are some serious installations.
so is Gitmo.
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Originally Posted by bmcphx
this.

I tell everyone I have a **** sprint, but truth it I'm just as strong in a sprint as 99% of my race fields. I just suck at timing, jump, and being in the right place going in to it, so it makes my mediocre/average sprint look extremely sub par.

A little experience and practice will go a long way.
The guys with truly outstanding jumps, they stand out, because they're not all that common. For most of the rest, they're not really separated by the watts they're putting out.
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Old 01-28-14, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by botto
so is Gitmo.
My guess is the over-representation of Texans in the US military would probably prevent such an arrangement.
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send them to gitmo.
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This is pretty entertaining:

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so anyone on here live somewhere warm with good riding in the southeast (greenville, athens, asheville, etc) who wants to let me and a buddy crash on their couch for a few days in march?
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Atlanta is currently gridlocked and inaccessible to the outside world. We have about an inch of snow. LOL.

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it was -30 w/ the windchill this morning. we got a day off from school.
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Originally Posted by botto
send them to gitmo.
Ok, but you tell them.
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Originally Posted by waterrockets
I was thinking about what secession would look like. Well, aside from me relocating. It's interesting because of assets like Ft. Hood and Ft. Bliss. Those are some serious installations.

(1) ...? seriously?

(2) Other considerations: seaport, check, energy self-sufficient, check, food / water self-sufficient, almost check, not far from it; power grid self sufficient, check; defensible borders... ahhh no.
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Originally Posted by waterrockets
Ok, but you tell them.
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Originally Posted by Creatre
Atlanta is currently gridlocked and inaccessible to the outside world. We have about an inch of snow. LOL.
sounds like memphis in the snow.
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Originally Posted by Ygduf
kind of reads like a Glen Beck rant.
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Old 01-28-14, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Creakyknees
(1) ...? seriously?

(2) Other considerations: seaport, check, energy self-sufficient, check, food / water self-sufficient, almost check, not far from it; power grid self sufficient, check; defensible borders... ahhh no.
Well, I wasn't considering it seriously, but I'm serious that I was considering it because so many goofballs spout the possibility. So many talk about secession lightly, and I wonder how many have thought about what it would really mean. Might make a decent straight-to-video movie or made-for-TV.
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Originally Posted by botto
aki is proof of that.
For a second I thought you were calling me crazy.

Wait, I'm almost never in good position. You are calling me crazy.
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Originally Posted by ovoleg
I'm not convinced that power to weight is the critical number in a sprint.
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