Looks like you're killin them in A grade Jock.... Mr F better watch out?

Loved it while I was heading north. Farkin hated it while going east. I never realised the M4, M7, and M2 are all basically uphill travelling east. Combine that with a stiff easterly and the fact I'd blown myself out getting across the mountains as quick as possible after my 2 hour pucture repair session (as well as chasing another cyclist who'd probably just started and was fresh up the M4. Competitive spirit was still alive and well at that point ;) ), and I had a pretty miserable time of it. You can just see so far ahead on them, that when crawling along at 20 it takes you years to get anywhere. :(

So when I got to the ladies house I was testy, she was testy (from me being late and she thought the whole ride was a stupid thing to do), so I'm still trying to fix things. :(

So Saccy was a little teste? Oops, testy?

I thought only poofs and sheilas drank coronas?

Dont forget your newly blac'nd sac ;)

Anyone racing on wed nights at Dunc Gray?

Oh yeah... congratulations bmxer! :beer: :beer:

Sore legs from walking? Sounds odd. Could be somethin simple like you need some sort of orthothic in your shoes, or some muscular imbalance that can be fixed by a physio. If you are blind or visually impaired it could be that you need to be more careful around furniture.

Funny cant.

Fosters in the states actually isnt too bad, its totaly different to here as its made over there for thier market.

coronoa with a lemon eh? i actually prefer it without......

MGD is probably the best of the popular US beers.

hmm if anyone needs me ill be down the local.....

I'm not much better than OK in A Grade. Still on base training, so no strength or speed work to get me across the little performance gap I need to bridge. Only another two weeks before I get to ramp things back up a little. Prolly shouldn't even be racing, but i just can't help myself. :)

You can usually get a 12 pack of MGD for about US$8.99 on sale. I had one here, and it was AU$6.50 for one! Coors and Budweiser give me a headache, as they're just cheap brews.

Ah that's the one. I swear Strychnine must be a main ingredient of that stuff (Coors). I've never been so sick after drinking beer as I've been after a session on that crap.

What is base training btw. Is that where you just tootle about doing a few k's not trying to hard at all? If that's the case I've been base training for a couple of years. :)

I had a neighbour that worked for one of the breweries. He was rarely coherent enough to understand, but from what I could tell, he says MGD is a premium brand, whereas Coors and Budweiser have something nasty in them, or lack the processing that removes the evil stuff.

Actaully when i was in the states, the ppl i was staying with forbade me from drinking coors! gotta be somthing wrong with it if the natives dont like it.....

Contractor beer. The guys that build houses all pick up a suitcase of silver bullets on the way home from work Friday night.

After a huge night on coors back home (was $1 a bottle) I felt pretty bad the next day but ventured out with my brother for a wander when I was struck down with what felt like a brain aneurysm, really thought I was about to collapse... most painful headache ever... like piercing my brain!

Described this to a mate and he casually says "oh yeah, thats a Coors blinder, quite common the morning after..."

Haven't touched it since.

Exactly! Not to worry, they have a few cones in the morning, and then go out and build your house.

"Base training is that beginning of a training course that will allow you to maximally progress throughout the training period leading up to your primary race goal"

In english that roughly translates to "training for sufficient time at a level that allows the body and mind to fully recover from the demands of intensive training and racing so that you can do it all over again". It also allows you to resync your training cycles (peaking) with the new year's target races, as these shift every year.

It doesn't necessarily mean just tootling along, it just means that there isn't much intensity in it. My base training maxHR is 155-160 depending on how I feel on the day. I can 'tootle along' at over 40kmh and still be under 155.

There are other things for noobs like me to work on during base as well. I have developed a little knock in my left leg stroke, so I'm concentrating on working that out before loading up again. Nothing like a bad leg action to tear joints apart once you put some load on them. I'm also learning how to ride down on the drops again now that my back can take it. Sound simple, but it's hard to do after 20 years out of practice!

...but what's that got to do with beer? :D

Theres no reason to ever drink an MGD even. You can always get atleast a heiniken in America whereever you go. Its my safety net beer. :)

Fosters in any form is crap. Brewed by CUB, or under the supervision of CUB in Canada....its still terrible.

Fargin!? :eek:

Why aren't you doing the tours? If you can do over 40 at a bit over resting heart rate then imagine how easy you'd do rolling around behind lance and his buddies.

Riding, I rekon I could hold 160 bpm for about 200 meters. I just can't hold a mid HR on the flats for any length of time. I think I need stronger legs.

My appologies about taking things OT with bike talk. back to the beer. I spent a month in Greece in my younger days drinking a ton of Amstel. I thought it was the nectar of the gods at the time. Years later they bought it out here and it was crap. Still don't know if the stuff is just different over here to over there, or if I was just agog with the beautiful wimin and history over there so everything in life seemed beautiful. Guess I need to go back to find out. ;)

ughhh :: shudders :: heiniken. nasty! so many ppl love it but i just cant stand the stuff.

Amstel.....up there with Oranjeboom in my book. Plus every friggen race in Holland has all their signage paid for by them, so you get a bit brainwashed.

40 K at 160 BMP? your a machine! no wonder i was feeling it while you just cruised along at homebush!

Must have been the wimin then. ;)

Some fine microbrews I sampled while in the USA.

http://www.newbelgium.com/ - incl. the legendary Fat Tire Ale
http://www.dogfish.com/
http://www.yardsbrewing.com/
http://www.manayunkbrewery.com/homepage.php

Killian's Red was one of my staples in NJ, it was actually brewed by Coors in the USA.
Yeungling is the other staple beer that isn;t bad at all. http://www.yuengling.com/