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01-12-24, 07:33 PM
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01-12-24, 07:35 PM
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01-12-24, 07:35 PM
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We tried watching it and they had so many crashes I got PTSD.
01-12-24, 07:45 PM
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There was only like one bad crash. The rest were nothing. Watching Tom descend the alpe huez stage made my hands sweat. That kid is a beast and wanted to see more of what he did this year. I didn’t get to watch any of the tour. I enjoyed it, because you got to meet the riders, they were more than just a name. They all seemed chill and down to earth but I know it’s a show and they are prolly putting their best foot forward.
The EF team is interesting to me. Just from the small bit I have been introduced to the world, it seems they are struggling each year to keep their place.
Still trying to understand how each decides which stage they are going to hammer it and which stage they don’t. Seemed like they repeatedly made a point at almost every stage they need to win, but watching Niel Prowless pull away on the Alpa stage made me wonder why he didn’t go harder on an earlier stage. Why was that the one.
01-12-24, 07:54 PM
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01-12-24, 08:04 PM
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01-12-24, 08:17 PM
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01-12-24, 08:18 PM
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01-12-24, 08:19 PM
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01-12-24, 08:25 PM
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Bacon instead of weenies though.
01-12-24, 08:28 PM
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The Vegan Cyclist did a Fat Bike race in Wisconsin, where he got frostbite on his Johnson. He was filming the whole time after he finished the race, and the agony of reperfusion was really, really bad.
He commented a couple times that he'd talked to a bunch of folks about Fat Bike racing, and NOT ONE mentioned this as a possibility. But after it happened, everyone he talked to said, "Yeah, that happens." "Might have been nice to tell me!" he complained.
Having had a couple minor procedures under local anesthesia, I gotta say it is really strange to watch, and hear, and even feel slightly when someone, for example, takes a slice out of the skin on your leg, then sews it up, with the needle CLEARLY going through your skin.
When my Dad was 96, he underwent a second knee replacement*. Since he was so old, they didn't go a general, but rather a spinal block. I imagine it was distinctly strange, hearing them sawing and hammering at his leg, maybe feeling tugging on it, but not feeling the actual operation.
* Yeah, 96 is real damn old to be doing that. My sister was VERY skeptical, but the doc. pointed out that with Dad's worsening dementia, he was likely to try and stand on the bad one and have it collapse under him, possibly breaking a hip or worse.
He commented a couple times that he'd talked to a bunch of folks about Fat Bike racing, and NOT ONE mentioned this as a possibility. But after it happened, everyone he talked to said, "Yeah, that happens." "Might have been nice to tell me!" he complained.
Having had a couple minor procedures under local anesthesia, I gotta say it is really strange to watch, and hear, and even feel slightly when someone, for example, takes a slice out of the skin on your leg, then sews it up, with the needle CLEARLY going through your skin.
When my Dad was 96, he underwent a second knee replacement*. Since he was so old, they didn't go a general, but rather a spinal block. I imagine it was distinctly strange, hearing them sawing and hammering at his leg, maybe feeling tugging on it, but not feeling the actual operation.
* Yeah, 96 is real damn old to be doing that. My sister was VERY skeptical, but the doc. pointed out that with Dad's worsening dementia, he was likely to try and stand on the bad one and have it collapse under him, possibly breaking a hip or worse.
01-12-24, 08:32 PM
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The Vegan Cyclist did a Fat Bike race in Wisconsin, where he got frostbite on his Johnson. He was filming the whole time after he finished the race, and the agony of reperfusion was really, really bad.
He commented a couple times that he'd talked to a bunch of folks about Fat Bike racing, and NOT ONE mentioned this as a possibility. But after it happened, everyone he talked to said, "Yeah, that happens." "Might have been nice to tell me!" he complained.
He commented a couple times that he'd talked to a bunch of folks about Fat Bike racing, and NOT ONE mentioned this as a possibility. But after it happened, everyone he talked to said, "Yeah, that happens." "Might have been nice to tell me!" he complained.
https://www.reuters.com/sports/cross...t-2023-11-26/#
01-12-24, 08:35 PM
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The doc told me I didn't need to do it and lots of people lived with the separation. I really didn't like the feeling of my shoulder being disconnected so I went for it. I was working for the school district and had good insurance. I was happy with the outcome after about a year. I gained 35 pounds in 6 months after the surgery.
A friend had the Rayon cord thing after a rugby injury. He showed me how the cord was sawing through the collar bone. My doctor had warned me about that fix.
A friend had the Rayon cord thing after a rugby injury. He showed me how the cord was sawing through the collar bone. My doctor had warned me about that fix.
chose not to have surgery … then was unable to wrestle as a senior (which was a blessing since I had wrestled since 4th grade and was mentally done)
it has popped out maybe five or six times since then - gotta be extra careful when arm is up / raised and outstretched
last time it popped out was at a family reunion picnic volleyball game when I was serving overhand .. fortunately mrs t2p aunt was a nurse and had experience getting the arm / shoulder back in place
01-12-24, 08:37 PM
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Looks like my 401k wasn't taken out of my paycheck. Seems if your percentage exceeds what's left, they do nothing. Take the rest of it!
01-12-24, 08:40 PM
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01-12-24, 08:45 PM
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01-12-24, 08:46 PM
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01-12-24, 08:57 PM
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I was thinking about the velocity of one line zingers in this thread last night, and was thinking of the best way to describe the Addiction thread to my wife.
I called it quip pro quo.
Honestly, I didn't recall ls01 having the one line zingers. Who knew he was funny?
I called it quip pro quo.
Honestly, I didn't recall ls01 having the one line zingers. Who knew he was funny?
01-12-24, 08:59 PM
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01-12-24, 09:14 PM
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01-12-24, 09:16 PM
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01-12-24, 09:16 PM
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had a severe shoulder separation as a high school junior - last regular season wrestling match … messed up rotator cuff or labrum or both (?) can’t recall
chose not to have surgery … then was unable to wrestle as a senior (which was a blessing since I had wrestled since 4th grade and was mentally done)
it has popped out maybe five or six times since then - gotta be extra careful when arm is up / raised and outstretched
last time it popped out was at a family reunion picnic volleyball game when I was serving overhand .. fortunately mrs t2p aunt was a nurse and had experience getting the arm / shoulder back in place
chose not to have surgery … then was unable to wrestle as a senior (which was a blessing since I had wrestled since 4th grade and was mentally done)
it has popped out maybe five or six times since then - gotta be extra careful when arm is up / raised and outstretched
last time it popped out was at a family reunion picnic volleyball game when I was serving overhand .. fortunately mrs t2p aunt was a nurse and had experience getting the arm / shoulder back in place
A friend fell off his mtb on the trail and dislocated his. I had to turn around and go back and yank on his arm to get it to pop back in. It was the first time I had ever done that. He was ok and finished the ride.
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01-12-24, 09:25 PM
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Sounds like you're talking about a dislocated shoulder. A separated shoulder is when the collar bone is torn away, more or less. There ain't no popping that back in.
A friend fell off his mtb on the trail and dislocated his. I had to turn around and go back and yank on his arm to get it to pop back in. It was the first time I had ever done that. He was ok and finished the ride.
A friend fell off his mtb on the trail and dislocated his. I had to turn around and go back and yank on his arm to get it to pop back in. It was the first time I had ever done that. He was ok and finished the ride.
yes - pull and twist the arm seems to be the procedure