what exactly is a crit?

Aw, cute. It's a type of lap race (um, not THAT kind of lap race), generally around city blocks. Short for "criterium." Laps are short, less than a mile, but there are many of them. In sanctioned races, the course is closed. In unsanctioned races, you race in traffic.

so it seems there are quite a few events coming up this weekend...midnight crit friday, alexi's 5:30 am Boston Common crit on Sat, and then the Sat afternoon "get the hell out of boston" alley cat.

question is: where is everyone going to go in between? especially between 2am and 5am on friday night...
(i guess we'll all be sleeping after breakfasting on saturday morning)

man, too much going on this weekend, gotta balance between a 12 hour work call sunday night, three races, and my schoolwork. it's gonna be fun.

just geared down my beater to 44 x 16 for winter. wheeeee....

i run similar gear inches (49/18) year round, yeah.

i guess i wont be doing these events unless some strange occurance keeps me from racing mountain bikes this weekend in western mass.

ok, boston cats i need ur help. i have till sat evening to be in boston, i need to where to go, i see there are some events takes place so if anyone is up to hanging with a nyc fixed loser please let me know. i'm taking the chinese bus tomorrow and i have no idea where the thing even leaves me in boston. if anyone has a corner of the floor for me to crash, i'd pay u in riches, or beer or snicker bars. I basically need to latch on to a group of riders for the weekend.

i totally want to tag along. i'll be arriving from the chinese bus around 11 a.m and then i'm going to be checking out the sites. is boston easy to bike around like nyc

chinatown bus leaves you at south station

if things get dire you can probably crash on a couch at my place. i'll be going to the midnight crit for sure on friday. not sure what i'm doing thur and fri nights...

yea, transplant, that would be great. i want to go the midnight crit aswell. i must point out though, that i'm a female so hope that doesn't cause a problem for wife/girlfriend/mother what ever.

ride tomorrow night, durh!

friday night I might be looking for something. I have a project due on Monday I gotta pump out then post on a webpage I haven't made yet so I'll be kinda busy during the day Friday and up until the race on Saturday.

nah, i have three other roomies, i'll just have to run it by them all.
the crit will be awesome if the mit cops don't shut it down immediately.
here's my email so we don't bother people here on the forum... thisisforever at gmail dot com

Transplant is a class-A chap too, a real stand-up citizen...

sorry pixel i meant thrusday. ok, trans i'll email u and leave u my email and let me know if it's all good. p

so is this race on the "ghettodrome"?

ride tonight:
-will it end in bbq?
-pixel - can you let me borrow the chainring tool?

good thing I checked this before heading out for the day. its in my bag, remind me because I'll forget.

good thing i get to work a good 4 hours before you.

can't make it tonight but see you at MIT tomorrow!

can't make it to MIT but see/meet you all on saturday! i'm coming out with at least two other western mass kids....

I'll be at MIT after work on Friday. I'm am however on the injured list.

Are most people watching or racing on Friday?

i'm gonna race! with my friend dorothy! it's gonna be great.

whether i race in the next two after that will depend on what kind of shape i'm in afterwards. i hope to not join cara marie on the injured list.

tonight, meet @ 10pm: the Christian Science Center fountain, leave once enough people are there to make it worthwhile.

race-wise I'm planning on doing the midnite crit and the evacuate boston race. 5:30am isn't going to happen as I'm not that motivated.