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patentcad

09-02-10 06:37 PM

I'm more in my element with the 4's, but they're just too friggin squirrelly. Always have been too.

spinwax

09-02-10 06:45 PM

Good job. Keep it up.

Yes, the 40 yr olds are fast. Well not all of them. If you do a race down in Southern California, many times you will see the guy who just got a top 10 in the 35+ or 45+ crit go out in the Cat 1-2 field and get a top 10 again and many times win. Definitely not uncommon.

Now that I am older, I train harder than I ever did when I raced as a Jr. I watch everything I do more. With age comes discipline.

Lamabb

09-02-10 06:58 PM

I clicked on the thread, looked at the picture... and holy hell I want your legs!

caloso

09-02-10 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by spinwax (Post 11402296)

Seriously. As a 43 year old Cat 3, I always feel like I've got a better shot in the 3's race. 35+ races are brutal.

Kind of Blued

09-03-10 12:33 AM

Great post. I like your attitude; learn from your mistakes and keep at it.

0gravity

09-04-10 05:32 AM

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Originally Posted by lkh (Post 11395990)

great post!
I enjoyed the read and may see you out on the lakefront one day...I sometimes tie up my sailboat at the city dock and am amazed at all of the bike I see on the lakefront. I live in Lafayette and didn't know there were races here. Do you know who puts them on?

I'm pretty sure it was put on by a local bike shop. It was not the first time they had this race there so I would suppose that it is about the same time each year. Great volunteers and very friendly local folks. It drew a very small crowd downtown for the crit. I watched the races before and after and they were quite a spectacle to watch.

roadCruiser76

09-04-10 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by jmX (Post 11393818)

Sure are a lot of people with A.D.D on this forum. The post was fine, and an interesting read. Maybe everybody should stay on twitter if they cant stand to read more than 100 characters at a time. Sheesh.

+ 1

botto

09-04-10 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by 0gravity (Post 11393534)

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get a blog.

ciocc_cat

09-04-10 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by jmX (Post 11393818)

I enjoyed the post as well. Sad to say, some people don't have the attention span to handle more than a paragraph or two. Makes me wonder how they ever made it through college. Are classes being twittered too?

Gege-Bubu

09-04-10 08:30 AM

Good read. Thanks for sharing. I am discouraged from participating in racing.

unabowler

09-04-10 02:11 PM

Good post. Good luck with your recovery and in future races.

pcfxer

09-04-10 03:21 PM

Just what I needed. I am getting the newbie anxiety of beginning to race and I really don't want to rush into it. I am running out of time to try things out and certainly don't want to drop-out, or crash but I don't mind crashing because it means I'm putting about the right amount of effort ;). You kept with it and wrote out a lot of the experience of your first race and passed it on to inquiring minds! Thank you!

My goal is similar; buy expensive bike and reason the expenditure by racing. Though, we all know the truth. We could race on an 80's steelie and perform just as well.

Gorden Gekko

09-04-10 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by KendallF (Post 11393550)

Clif notes?

http://i51.tinypic.com/125gfo0.jpg

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