The Polar Opposite of HTFU
 

WTFO

Wussy the F Out.

That's what I did on Sunday in the race when I essentially said to myself 'F this soggy action' and didn't jam to close the gap in the Prospect Park Vets race. I was actually happy to get shelled.

So it goes.

Actually, sometimes WTFO is the far better path to follow.

Well, you are old. I mean I'm old, but nothing like you. It was bound to happen.

Yesterday I was out for a fifty or so mile ride through some of the mildly hilly parts of Bloomington and that went pretty well, but seemed to tire out my quadriceps. Today I was going out for a recovery ride and was climbing something I've named the Trail of Terror when I notice a female cyclist coming up - we "race" for a bit, but I just wuss out and turn and roll down the hill. She had already begun to drop me, but blah.

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/f...g/IMG_0050.jpg

And HTFU.

Same thing happened to me today, except it was completely sunny and dry out. I found myself near the back and working harder than I'm accustomed to on a particular section, when suddenly I just decided "fk this. I'm not doing it today."
Of course, the entire time I watched the group ride into the distance, I'm thinking "You moron. Now you have to ride alone."

And I'm not even old =(

ftfy

I mss th dys b4 we spke in c0de

Bring back the english language please.

I got dropped on the bike path by an old guy on what appeared to be a touring bike with clip-on aerobars and a rear rack. WTFO, indeed, I did.

Sometimes I go out with full intentions of really HTFU and doing some intense intervals but I end up
STFU (Softening The F up) and just spin instead.....:(

This is the third or fourth thread that you've brought up the 'shelling'. You should seek profesional help. If you don't you may never get over it.

Are you still fussing over that?

Must be a slow week.

:pB

I hope not. Shellification is the Mother of Self Loathing.

I cut grass.

htfu then

I don't mind riding alone.

I didn't ride to work this morning because it was dark and cold. WTFU indeed.
On Another Forum, someone called that getting "chicked". I'd never heard the term before, but I thought it was pretty funny.

So when you get dropped by an old guy, is that "geezed?"

Hey, you should buy a new bike. Blame it on the bike. Those guys all have newer, faster bikes.

BTW...you will love this...customer comes in the other day with his wife looking at bikes. I pick them up in road bikes, not where they should have been, and the guy says to me, "Anybody that spends this much for a bike is an idiot."

I love it when a sales interaction starts like that.

Anybody want to take bets on how many threads pcad will start talking about his rainy ride last weekend?? I think we're at 3 now.

That guy gets the coveted John Bolton Diplomacy Citation of Merit.

http://www.whereistheoutrage.net/wor...ohn_bolton.jpg

when you wake up at 3AM, to drive and hour and a half, to race in the rain, you can start your own.

How do you drop yourself?

Go easy on me, two of those threads were because I forgot I had started the first. My memory isn't what it used to be.

Then he asks, "You know anything about these, or do you just sell them?"

I just started laughing. I could not help it. Then I asked, "You want my resume? Or is there something with which I can help?"

It was pretty funny.

considering the quality of the staff at most LBS's, it's a legitimate question. ;)

You get what you pay for...:thumb: :twitchy:

For me, it's getting paid for the hobby. And free stuff.

I just found his lack of diplomacy really funny.