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08-17-16, 08:45 AM
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It is a small world. I was doing a crit in Missouri when I saw a rider pull off to the side with a mechanical. He was wearing bowling shoes, so I yelled at him that he needs real shoes before he can be competitive. Turns out that was @PepeM.
08-17-16, 08:48 AM
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Yesterday I did a little ~40 minute loop segment during a ride that I hadn't done in about a year. I gave it some juice but still ended up 4 minutes slower than my best time. There were lots of variables-
Stopped for a train-induced traffic jam
Really hot
Gusty headwind
Kinda out of shape
Didn't start pushing until halfway through
Slowed to smile at a puppy
Still, I think I'm going to blame it on my wheels and start a thread about finding a pair that will gain those minutes back.
Good idea?
Stopped for a train-induced traffic jam
Really hot
Gusty headwind
Kinda out of shape
Didn't start pushing until halfway through
Slowed to smile at a puppy
Still, I think I'm going to blame it on my wheels and start a thread about finding a pair that will gain those minutes back.
Good idea?
08-17-16, 09:34 AM
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It is a small world. I was doing a crit in Missouri when I saw a rider pull off to the side with a mechanical. He was wearing bowling shoes, so I yelled at him that he needs real shoes before he can be competitive. Turns out that was @PepeM.
In '99 I rode across the country with a dozen or so other people. The following year I was touring out west. Had just entered Yellowstone N.P. about 15 min. earlier when a car pulled along side me and the person in the front passenger seat said Hey, Dave." It was a woman who had been on the tour the year before. She had dropped out in IN and I hadn't seen her since then.
Later in that trip I was having lunch under a picnic shelter in Kremmling, CO. A couple pulled in riding loaded touring bikes. Their panniers were custom jobs made by the same guy who made mine, only theirs were a custom purple. I instantly recognized them as the couple we had seen the year before riding in the opposite direction along the east shore of Lake Koocanusa in Montana.
In 2012, during Cycle Oregon, I ran into two people volunteering on the ride. One was a woman who I was good friends with in junior high. The other was a woman who I had gone to law school with for one year.
This June I was touring in Montana. One day I camped at the same location as Adventure Cycling's organized Cycle Montana tour. As I was setting up my tent I thought I heard familiar voices. I looked up and saw three people who had been on Adventure Cycling's 2010 Cycle Vermont tour which I had been on. The leader of the Montana tour had also been on the Vermont tour as a participant.
08-17-16, 09:55 AM
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In '99 I rode across the country with a dozen or so other people. The following year I was touring out west. Had just entered Yellowstone N.P. about 15 min. earlier when a car pulled along side me and the person in the front passenger seat said Hey, Dave." It was a woman who had been on the tour the year before. She had dropped out in IN and I hadn't seen her since then.
Later in that trip I was having lunch under a picnic shelter in Kremmling, CO. A couple pulled in riding loaded touring bikes. Their panniers were custom jobs made by the same guy who made mine, only theirs were a custom purple. I instantly recognized them as the couple we had seen the year before riding in the opposite direction along the east shore of Lake Koocanusa in Montana.
In 2012, during Cycle Oregon, I ran into two people volunteering on the ride. One was a woman who I was good friends with in junior high. The other was a woman who I had gone to law school with for one year.
This June I was touring in Montana. One day I camped at the same location as Adventure Cycling's organized Cycle Montana tour. As I was setting up my tent I thought I heard familiar voices. I looked up and saw three people who had been on Adventure Cycling's 2010 Cycle Vermont tour which I had been on. The leader of the Montana tour had also been on the Vermont tour as a participant.
Later in that trip I was having lunch under a picnic shelter in Kremmling, CO. A couple pulled in riding loaded touring bikes. Their panniers were custom jobs made by the same guy who made mine, only theirs were a custom purple. I instantly recognized them as the couple we had seen the year before riding in the opposite direction along the east shore of Lake Koocanusa in Montana.
In 2012, during Cycle Oregon, I ran into two people volunteering on the ride. One was a woman who I was good friends with in junior high. The other was a woman who I had gone to law school with for one year.
This June I was touring in Montana. One day I camped at the same location as Adventure Cycling's organized Cycle Montana tour. As I was setting up my tent I thought I heard familiar voices. I looked up and saw three people who had been on Adventure Cycling's 2010 Cycle Vermont tour which I had been on. The leader of the Montana tour had also been on the Vermont tour as a participant.
Did you stay at the Whitefish Bike Resort in MT? A friend of mine is doing the Tour Divide route right now and just camped there.
08-17-16, 09:57 AM
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Yesterday I did a little ~40 minute loop segment during a ride that I hadn't done in about a year. I gave it some juice but still ended up 4 minutes slower than my best time. There were lots of variables-
Stopped for a train-induced traffic jam
Really hot
Gusty headwind
Kinda out of shape
Didn't start pushing until halfway through
Slowed to smile at a puppy
Still, I think I'm going to blame it on my wheels and start a thread about finding a pair that will gain those minutes back.
Good idea?
Stopped for a train-induced traffic jam
Really hot
Gusty headwind
Kinda out of shape
Didn't start pushing until halfway through
Slowed to smile at a puppy
Still, I think I'm going to blame it on my wheels and start a thread about finding a pair that will gain those minutes back.
Good idea?
08-17-16, 10:07 AM
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On our ride last night, Mrs. Doug28450 and I did not see anyone we know.
08-17-16, 10:07 AM
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08-17-16, 10:08 AM
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08-17-16, 10:09 AM
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08-17-16, 10:09 AM
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I can't go for a ride here without seeing at least 1 person I know, either on their bike or passing in a car or jogging or whatever. It's one of the good and bad things about living in a relatively small city with a dense core.
08-17-16, 10:10 AM
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08-17-16, 10:10 AM
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08-17-16, 10:10 AM
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Many years ago, neighbor was at one of the National Parks out west and was at a gift shop buying post cards. (Remember those?) She asked another tourist if she could borrow a pen and the pen was from the local pharmacy of our dinky town.
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08-17-16, 10:11 AM
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08-17-16, 10:12 AM
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08-17-16, 10:13 AM
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I ran into a girl from my high school in Florida while visiting Barcelona and walking down a street once. That's about the most random unexpected encounter I've had.
08-17-16, 10:20 AM
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At one time, Caterpillar shut down factories for two weeks every summer. You couldn't throw a rock at Disney World in Florida without hitting a neighbor or at least another UAW worker.
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08-17-16, 10:24 AM
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I didn't know Caterpillar made autos. They must be pretty slow with a name like that. Not like Pantera.
08-17-16, 10:27 AM
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Lost touch with them after our trips were over, but last Christmas I was skiing in Vermont with my family and I ran into the guy we'd met. He literally walked into me as I was leaving a lodge. Took us a minute to figure out where we knew each other from.
Like I said before, big world with small circles.