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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 08-10-16, 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Doug28450
Watching women's beach volleyball. Relating back to earlier discussion regarding Phelps. I believe that Kerri Walsh-Jennings falls into the same category as being one of the greatest Olympians.
Yes, agree. I think of all the "recent" sports added to the Olympics in my lifetime, beach volleyball is the most enjoyable to watch. It's not just the bikini thing, it's really a fun sport to see played well and the men's matches are fun too.
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Have any of you guys actually ever been to the Olympics in person?

I'd love to go one day, definitely a bucket list thing. My wife went as a kid to Atlanta in '96 and remembers the table tennis vividly as a highlight.

I'm really clogging Addiction up today, aren't I?





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I went to the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
I went to the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.
Did you get a medal?
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Old 08-10-16, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I can relate to basketball players as being human adults; the gymnasts look like they are nine years old.



I saw the torch relay for said Olympics . . . twice in one day, actually. Once in Murray County (GA) and once in Whitfield County. Fun times.
My dad and I ran with the torch relay, also in 1980, when it passed near our town.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
My dad and I ran with the torch relay, also in 1980, when it passed near our town.
wut
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Old 08-10-16, 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by topslop1
The boss and I both wear and like Aldens. Instant friendship.
Oh boy.
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Originally Posted by f4rrest
Lolz. Our last washer lasted 20 years.
Haven't lived anywhere long enough for that. Closest was our previous abode. Appliances were 14 years old. We sold them with the house.
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Originally Posted by Doug28450
Do banjos follow them around?
Mrs. rjones28 has a banjo.
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Originally Posted by rpenmanparker
It doesn't even merit comment. Legal just about everywhere. Not forbidden by any major religion that I know of.
Oh?
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Originally Posted by Doug28450
Did you get a medal?
I got a wool hat and a couple of pins. I still have the pins.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
wut
It's a thing the do with the Olympic flame. We started at the Maryland/Delaware state line. I forget how many miles we ran.

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Originally Posted by rjones28
It's a thing the do with the Olympic flame.

What does "run with the relay" mean? Did you carry the torch? That's the only thing that counts.
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I set a PR on my Catholic parish walk today: 44 minutes. When I started doing it I took an hour.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
What does "run with the relay" mean? Did you carry the torch? That's the only thing that counts.
I did not carry the torch.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I set a PR on my Catholic parish walk today: 44 minutes. When I started doing it I took an hour.
Did you Strava it? That's the only thing that counts.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
I went to the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.
I've seen the movie Lake Placid.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
I've seen the movie Lake Placid.
Did you see rjones28 in the movie?
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Did you Strava it? That's the only thing that counts.
I have witnesses. People are starting to recognize me on the path.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I have witnesses. People are starting to recognize me on the path.
Are they starting to recognize you or are they becoming familiar with the blur of your passing?
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Are they starting to recognize you or are they becoming familiar with the blur of your passing?

Quite a blur rolling at ~2 m.p.h.
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Have you joined with a few other physicians? Or something more corporate?
Local hospital employee. But at least I'm still alone in the office so they pretty much leave us alone. For now. I'll be moving to a new office next yr that I'll share with 3 others.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I have witnesses. People are starting to recognize me on the path.
The crutches give you away.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
I got a wool hat and a couple of pins. I still have the pins.
what happened to the hat?
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Quite a blur rolling at ~2 m.p.h.
That would be a blur to some of the paths users I've seen.
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