Go Mariners !!!

So you didn't take off from over there before because everyone wanted to break your legs for owning them money?

Hell finish to Tour of Cal "The medical team has already run out of supplies already and have to go back to headquarters and stock up."

Started with a crash on the first lap

+1

Life as I know it is officially over: my kids have discovered weekend sport. Bugger. Might have to divorce them so cycling isn't interrupted.

another weekend, another MTB race picked up a 3rd in D grade. close call, totaly blew up after the climb on the 2nd lap and it was like riding the vomitron from there on in! happy enough though, off to ourimbah for a run at that this weekend.

one question is to be asked though, normally after i race / ride im really hungry. yesterday i wasnt hungry at all, and infact when i had somthing to eat it made me feel worse. is that a bi product of lactic acid build up in the stomach?

Good to see Cipo make an appearance in the closing ceremony at the Winter Olympics!

Lactic acid forms in the blood supply, if I remember correctly, so I doubt it's that.

The body is just weird sometimes I reckon. Sometimes you can go into something under hydrated and hungry and ride like a god, and other times you think you have everything right and you ride like poo.

All I try and do is hydrate before, during and especially after, and try to be in a good space mentally. Seems to work 80% of the time.

I'll be up there this weekend, going slow training for the 100km.
Climbo, you free?

So quit the whingin and give us the crit report?

Lactic acid doesn't build up in the stomach, it is part of the fuel system that helps muscles drive when there isn't enough oxygen being delivered through the bloodstream. More likely that you pushed your body into stress, and that has a variety of outcomes from nausea, to vomiting, hyperventilation, muscle spasms, all sorts of wierd and wonderful things. The best way to avoid it is to experience it on a regular basis!

I'm not kidding, just keep building your fitness up and start getting hard intervals into your training regime. Your body will adapt over time and you will be able to cope with more stress during a race before the symptoms come on (if at all).

Phil won. So what's new?

Jammed my thumb in the car door on Saturdee and didn't race. Had a nice sooky Sunday taking kids to soccer, baseball, swimming, shopping, the park. Arghhhhh

[QUOTE=jock]Lactic acid doesn't build up in the stomach, CUT QUOTE]

thanks thylo and Jock. shows that my understanding of physiology was not up to scratch, i was under the impression that lactic acid ended up in the stomach and when it got built up thats what makes you want to blow chunks.

i figured that once it has happenda couple of times it will get better. my pre race eating plan was in disaray with the staggered start. also suffered from having dirt crit fitness , where i was fine for the 1st 20 or so minutes (dirt crit length) then POP, the pressure valve went...... will work on it some more with the race up at ourimbah this weekend.

comforting thing was that my 1st lap was a 28 minute lap, where the middle c graders were doing that. if i hadnt blown up i may have matched their times.

Hang on a minute. Expat, Australia isn't an expensive place to live. The cost of living (the basics) is very affordable on a global (western) scale. Where the US has us beat is the cost of luxury goods and the credit system (bank loans, credit cards etc). If luxury goods and cheap credit is your definition of 'lifestyle', then yeah, you're right.

It's also unfair to compare Sydney to the rest of Australia. Even we cry when we have to go to Sydney. Sydney is the Paris Hilton of cities - good to look at for a laugh, but really quite a dud lay, and definitely not worth the money.

Did you spend any time at all down here in Melbourne? Melbourne is much less precocious than Sydney, is much more affordable, and doesn't try so hard.

On the whole 'Internet Business' thing, I have to profess we're totally backward in that respect, so anyone expecting to make some sort of living via net based sales is going to struggle in the next three to five years. We don't have the history of 'catalog' buying like they do in the US and are skeptical of credit cards and companies that haven't been around for 30 years and don't have a shop front. This is slowly changing though as people's cheapness trumps their skepticism. "It won't happen overnight, but it will happen"

What would make me move overseas is not a lifestyle problem, but more of getting sick of the parocialism and apathy (and worse) that we're becoming renowned for.

not Sunday, bronze training. Got my first ever surf rescue in yesterday. I'm now officially as cool as the Hoff

"Greg Henderson (Health Net) is getting neutral service at the moment. He has them re-taping his handelbars whilst riding along at 51km/h (32m/h). He's one of the teams best sprinters and will want some grip on his bars for the sprint later."

and Chaddy is off the front again hammering, doing his bit for Aussie toughness

All together with 10km to go. Bring on the sprinters

I asked this over in the mtb forum, but the nobs over there are to busy talking about critters they've seen on their rides and other useless crap to answer.

Anwyay, I've filled my mtb tubes with stans. Noticed that they have a heap of thorns in them. Is it okay to pull the thorns out and hope the stans will seal the holes, or should I leave them in? I'd think the thorns would eventually rip the tubes up, but you fellas might know better?

Dude, wouldn't it have been better to chuck the swiss cheese tubes, and buy and fill new ones?

Gah, I'll tell the story properly. My sister wants me to go out with her every day for a month to the local mtb track to learn how to ride a mtb better and for fitness. So we've been going out for a week, she got one puncture and I got one. Got some stans, and as an experiment, fixed the punctures then put stans in those tubes, and left the other tubes stanless. Anyway our last ride on saturday, she got another flat in her non stanned tube. Then the next morning I noticed my non-stanned tube was down as well. After going over the tire, I notice that I actually have 3 thorns in it. So I fix the punctures and put some stans in the tubes. Then I think to have a look at the stanned tubes that didn't go down. Turns out they have a heap of thorns in them as well. So I pull the thorns out of mine, and air starts pissing out, and if I let the wheel spin so the place where the hole is is at the bottom, then the stans starts pissing out. So I spin the wheels and the holes eventually seal.

So back to my original question. Should I have left the thorns in? Another question, will that tube be alright to hold it's air with the stans, or should I patch the holes?

you put stans in your tubes? wierd! how do you get it in there in the 1st place?? using a syringe via the valve? you can do a poor mans tubeless using stans and a set of tyres with hard sidewalls like Larsens. but ivenever heard of somone putitng stans IN their tubes.... maybee im out of the loop? for the cost of stans, wouldnt you be better to just go and have some spare tubes?

have considered running it on my tubless crossmaxs, but havent had a need to yet...

[QUOTE=climbo]"Greg Henderson (Health Net) is getting neutral service at the moment. He has them re-taping his handelbars whilst riding along at 51km/h (32m/h). He's one of the teams best sprinters and will want some grip on his bars for the sprint later."[QUOTE]

Go Hendy. He's been travelling a lot lately. Tour of Southland (NZ) late last year, back to the US for HealthNet training camp, back to NZ for the Tour of Wellington, back to the US for the Tour of California, and now more HealthNet commitments then Melbourne. He should be over the jetlag by July

I just managed to breathe, pedal and stay with the bunch on Saturday with our team animal pulling us along at 49kmh (Russell Nant, 1974 Comm Games bronze medal in team pursuit,) never mind getting the bars retaped at the same time. Those guys are amazing.

i'd replace the tubes saccy, you could leave the thorns in and hope to keep the seal around them but any movement in the tyre/tube, it'll create air pockets the Stans sealant needs to keep filling, eventually you'll run out of sealant.

And yeah, how in the hell did you get enough in the tube is the first place? Musta been some operation.

So much for Stans being a tubeless system!

I'd pull 'em out one at a time and see what happens. Just for a giggle.

Then I'd ditch the tube altogether and go somewhere with compressed air and make 'em tubeless. (Which I've been meaning to do myself for about 6 months now)

Can someone please explain to me what "Stans" is? Is this an MTB thing?