...I see they had tyler there at the Red cross tent....autographing peoples blood donations!

lol...writing his name on them so Santi Perez doesn't take his from the fridge on the Phonak team bus.

Eating Carbs for Lunch Hitchy?

heart rate already 120?

...funny you should mention that Ed, you've obviously been 'here' before. Resting HR this morning up 10 bpm on 'usual'......been carb loading for 2 days, rice, spuds, bread, pasta. I was alright this morning until people starting wishing me goodluck!.....now i'm getting a bit toey!...gotta go collect the number & stuff in a few minutes, so i don't need do it in the morning......Bring it on!...enough training, i'm over it...lets do it!

Hitchy

I'm thinking the subject of nervous 'pooing' is appropriate about now.

(Max Walker voice) "Yyyyyeeeeeeesss......been there before."

My Dutch club entered me in the amateur version (actually elites zonder contracteren) of the semi-classic Veenendaal-Veenendaal when I was there.....fark me was I nervous! TV, full-on teams with cars and rows of identical bikes lined up, blokes at about 5% bf wandering around tanned and oiled up to the bejeezus....I reckon I used up more energy getting ready than in the first 50km!!

...d'ya reckon If I offered that hans De clercq fella on page 108 of todays sun, half a powerbar, he'd be my domestique tomorrow?......I've got a tow rope in the 'Subi' we could use!

hitchy

thanks for that ed!....you "do" know how i'm feeling then!......I'm gunna try & ignore them all & just do my own thing till the start......the most exciting & terrifying thing about riding with pro's, (done a few before but nothing this big!), is that you know all the blokes in the Div.1 team uniforms...actually earned them, rather than the normal training bunch wannabes!

Hitchy

Impossible....no matter how cool I ever tried to play it, a pro can't go from the pages of Cycle Sport suffering at Flanders to "just another bloke in the bunch". My eyes were out on stalks.....I remember one training ride I went on over there in the backblocks of holland somewhere and I'd swung off the front to go to the back and slotted in nicely next to Mr Erik Bruekink.

I was like a 15 yo girl getting backstage at a Justin Timberlake concert...

...lol....well I'll try not to squeal that much when i'm dropping Henk & Willo, hans & the boys.....Lol......the problem i've had lately, is that blokes look at the 486 & assume i must actually be 'someone'!........it's emabarrassing to have to say, "actually i'm a no-one who was having a mid life crisis & blew all his savings"!...lol.....its worse when i put the cosmics on it.....looks real 'euro pro'...gotta start talking bulgarian or something!...lol

Morning.

You can't tell me that dumping isn't one of the most important parts of your preparation

You can't tell me you wanna be stuck having a dump on the side on the road at Pirron Yallock when there's a 65kmh attack goin' on!!

.....by the time the race gets to Pirron yallock the only 65 kph attack that I'll be involved in will be the speed i need to go to out run the local magpie population!...WTF is pirron yallock anyway?

Hitchy

I just read it in The Sun while I was havin' me dump. Apparently you go through there this year

Anyway, good luck, Hitchyoheyoheyoheyoheee. I know a guy called Jason who'll be helping out the "Omara" boys (oooh, bike shop boys), who wear dark blue and yellow, so, if you're lying on the side on the road I'm sure he'll pick you up.

Or do you have your own support vehicle?

Nex ttime your at O'Mara's, say hi to Wokka for me. Great bloke and could get dropped before Hitchy....prefers those races on wood under a roof.

I've jumped on their training bunch a few times, and there's really only one guy that I would say was a "very strong" rider -- (Justin, someone), so I was a bit surprised to hear that a few of them were entering.

Ooops......offended another seppo on cyclingforums.com.

which thread?

the one about the bloke torn up between a C50, 5900 or Vortex or something....but we've sort of kissed and made up now...

Wot?....he's thinking about a 5900 as against a C50 or a litespeed.......why is it taht seppo's think that Trek's are actually good?...that Lance bloke has a lot to answer for!....wonder if they ever ride 'em before they buy 'em......& they are hideously expensive!.......I got the 486, Full DA, carbon post, cinelli neo bar 7 stem & cosmics (& keo's one day!) cheaper than i coulda got a madone 5.9......& then we'll talk about the ride! of the things!

What about that tossa who posted the "which country has produced the best riders?" poll, and didn't include Australia!!?!?!?!?! He could've at least put us on the bottom

Do you train on the Cosmics? (carbons, I assume)

i am going to have a Michael Douglas from "Falling Down" moment if another spanner from Buttfukk, Idaho starts another thread about "do you wear bib shorts?" or "Do you wear socks in your cycling shoes?"....I mean, that's like asking "Do you wash your arse in the shower?"!!! WTF????

...just got back from cyclesport....hitchy # 122....We have to wear stickers with our number on them on our lids on the left hand side....for the photo finish camera...."yep & here comes the sprint for 120th place...ohh its close...we're gunna have to go to the video tape folks"....lol