schloe mo

at this point, salome should be in her kitchen cranking out pumpkin bread (**please note** that comment not in any way meant to reinforce antiquated women's roles, merely a direct reaction to her aforementioned pumpkin bread baking.)

everyone else should be stretching, meditating and getting a good nights rest.

cuz tomorrow it's on.

salome

salome already cranked (no pun intended) out the pumpkin bread and is in no way offended by comments related to baking as all salome is capable of baking is pumpkin bread and homemade brownies which, by the way, taste amazing with peanut butter. yum.

delay

My god. I just honestly looked at this route. There is absolutely no way in hell I am going even vaguely be able to pretend that I am going to know where I am going.

Its a shame there won't be people at corners pointing. I am wondering why I am even considering going to this. Its probably the t-shirt.

salome

and the pumpkin bread ... duh.

mrbertfixy

it really isn't that complicated. i got a nice map that i made up that makes it look relatively straight forward.

the only part that makes it look complicated on a map is you're taking la Salle twice (both times going north) and wacker twice (going opposite directions).

delay

yes, right, naturally the pumpkin break

chicagoamdream

I spent two hours in Yojimbo's today, and was so proud of myself for leaving without spending any money.

Not five minutes ago, my recently patched front inner tube exploded, so there goes my spare. Does anyone have an extra long-stem tube they could bring tomorrow? Knowing my luck, I'll need it.

giboyeux

Yeah, I got you covered, dude.

chicagoamdream

Thanks! Check it out; kaboom!



edit: just got your text message. MT2006!!!!!!!

giboyeux

Wow! That's a blow and a half.

efarrar

Bad news: looks like I will be missing this stage.

Good news: I am getting a fuji 2006 basic track frame tomorrow! Look out marcus I will be banging on your door at like 12:01pm tomorrow!

chicagoamdream

Damn, it's a happy birthday for you.

efarrar

indeed. but the good part is still to come tuesday morning at 12:01am.

teadoggg

**** yeah, dude!

no more crazy bolts on your seatpost!!

maybe I'll tag along to help welcome your new baby! great bike!

efarrar

No, I have already bought another toilet seat screw for a seatpost clamp...

jk jk...

schloe mo

use the google pedometer map that was made.. and follow someone who looks like they know.

teadoggg

go to bed, dudes! we have a race tomorrow, **** yeah!

giboyeux

Done and done. Also: BARS, BRO. I'll bring $10.

steaktaco

hey, hope the race went well for you guys—it was confusing routing it yesterday. and scary with mid-day traffic. any stories?

edit—I didn't go... after checking out the route and riding around with teabaggg I spent almost four hours locked out of the apartment yesterday, in riding clothes, riding around trying to keep warm. windy as **** too.

and right now my desktop's hard drive wants to die so no steaktaco pic for a while... maybe tuesday.

schloe mo

awesome race. my favorite thus far. the pack stayed together and rode a green wave to the 1st checkpoint, which broke up the pack considerably due to poker chip feeding-frenzy.

shortly thereafter i closely witnessed a crash. guy with a pink gunnar smacked the side of a car, sort of popped off his bike and landed on his feet... pretty freakin graceful actually. he was back on in no time. the car on the other hand, had a dent roughly the size of the dude. he was all smiles at the finish line.

super fun time.

steaktaco

I just stayed home and polished my bikes. I'm such a poseur.

teadoggg

did you buy another bike you'll never ride?

efarrar

YOU POSEUR

I missed it too. Marcus will prep my frame and I'm picking it up sometime tomorrow or tuesday.

chicagoamdream

Results via the MySpace page:

1 James LaLonde
2 Casey Masterson
3 Stan Schultz
4 Josh Herman
5 Marko LaLonde
6 Lyle
7 Super Rookie
8 Jon Gatto
9 Burger
10 Monty Watkins
11 Adam Clark
12 Jeff Bertolet
13 Brandon Heuser
14 Darryl Van Essen
15 Ira Cox
16 Kiecker
17 Neil McNamara
18 Mike Morell
19 Val Brostrom
20 Jason Boynton
21 Mike McGarry
22 Jen Greenberg
23 Max Riordan
24 Ben Popper
25 Anzie Nelson
26 Joe Phillips
27 Jeff Watt
28 Andy Golding
29 Butch Welke
30 Ben Fietz
31 Jon Maglio
32 Ryan Cate
33 Erik Martin
34 Evan Skow
35 Tony Petoske
36 Kevin Womac
37 Dewey Sprenzel
38 Clare Fauke
39 Emily Willobee
40 Sasha
41 Adam Zingrove
42 Scott Kroll
43 Monkey
44 Nick Peterson
45 Natt Grotte
46 Bryce Sabin
47 Matt Sipple
48 Sherry Daun
49 Jon Greenfield
50 Dave Schlabowske
51 Paul Suda
52 Inge
53 Chris Turek
54 Kathy Schubert
55 Tristan Coulter

And some overalls:

The scores are as follows: Stage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, bonus, total, total - low score

1 Marko LaLonde 91 60 58 46 51 1 307 261
2 Jon Gatto 88 55 60 53 48 1 305 257
3 Stan Schultz 86 52 51 51 53 1 294 243
4 Casey Masterson 93 62 46 28 54 2 285 257
5 James LaLonde 90 59 24 47 55 1 276 252
6 Ansgar Graw 94 61 64 55 0 0 274 274
7 Josh Herman 76 56 45 30 52 2 261 231
8 Val Brostrom 77 54 48 41 37 1 258 221
9 Super Rookie 89 53 62 0 49 1 254 254
10 Jim Freeman 83 51 55 52 0 0 241 241
11 Adam Clark 92 0 63 38 45 1 239 239
12 Neil McNamara 85 0 57 54 39 2 237 237
13 Ira Cox 81 45 61 0 41 1 229 229
14 Jeff Bertolet 68 26 44 45 44 1 228 202
15 Ben Popper 42 47 42 50 32 1 214 182
16 Darryl Van Essen 72 35 13 47 42 1 210 197
17 Dan Ortiz 80 46 47 31 0 0 204 204
18 Lyle 58 48 0 43 50 1 200 200
19 Anzie Nelson 71 42 32 19 31 1 196 177
20 Brandon Heuser 0 50 53 44 43 1 191 191
21 Monty Watkins 82 0 59 0 46 1 188 188
22 Mike McGarry 44 33 34 35 35 2 183 150
23 Ben Fietz 43 20 43 36 26 2 170 150
24 Emily Willobee 65 24 28 29 17 1 164 147
25 Andy Golding 0 38 52 37 28 4 159 159
26 Kevin Womac 55 36 37 0 20 2 150 150
27 Jeff Watt 40 32 22 25 29 1 149 127
28 Burger 0 23 38 40 47 1 149 149
29 Dewey Sprenzel 67 17 1 39 19 2 145 144
30 Luke Seeman 87 57 0 0 0 0 144 144
31 Butch Welke 66 0 0 47 27 1 141 141
32 Mike Morell 0 44 56 0 38 2 140 140
33 Tony Petoske 61 0 19 33 21 1 135 135
34 Erik Martin 57 30 0 24 23 1 135 135
35 Clare Fauke 29 27 35 22 18 1 132 114
36 Teddy Bear 48 40 33 0 0 0 121 121
37 Chris Darby 52 39 30 0 0 0 121 121
38 Todd Gee 46 19 21 32 0 0 118 118
39 Dan Mariner 70 28 0 20 0 0 118 118
40 Evan Skow 59 8 25 0 22 1 115 115
41 Joe Phillips 45 15 23 0 30 1 114 114
42 Bryce Sabin 35 37 7 21 10 2 112 105
43 Tristan Coulter 73 0 36 0 1 1 111 111
44 Sherry Daun 51 14 26 5 8 4 108 103
45 Adrian Redd 75 0 31 0 0 0 106 106
46 Dersu 74 0 0 27 0 0 101 101
47 Peter Chrapkowski 47 0 54 0 0 0 101 101
48 Paul Suda 50 12 16 10 5 4 97 92
49 Jose Rangel 84 0 0 0 0 0 84 84
50 Steve Bell 54 0 0 26 0 0 80 80
51 Jen Greenberg 0 43 0 0 34 3 80 80
52 Tom Giese 79 0 0 0 0 0 79 79
53 Andrew Nor**** 78 0 0 0 0 0 78 78
54 Nick Peterson 62 0 0 0 12 1 75 75
55 Elijah St. Clair 69 4 1 0 0 0 74 74
56 Betty "the girl" Silva 49 0 0 18 0 0 67 67
57 Ryan Cate 0 41 0 0 24 1 66 66
58 Jim Campbell 34 31 0 0 0 0 65 65
59 Arturo Valle 64 0 0 0 0 0 64 64
60 Josh McCauley 63 0 0 0 0 0 63 63
61 Natt Grotte 30 7 12 0 11 1 61 61
62 Ryan McClellan 60 0 0 0 0 0 60 60
63 Sean Gauvreau 38 22 0 0 0 0 60 60
64 Nico West 0 58 0 0 0 0 58 58
65 Ben Vancouvering 41 16 0 0 0 0 57 57
66 Adam Thomas 56 0 0 0 0 0 56 56
67 Monkey 22 0 18 0 13 1 54 54
68 Kevin Barry 32 0 15 6 0 0 53 53
69 Brad Q 53 0 0 0 0 0 53 53
70 Matt Hewitt 0 0 50 0 0 0 50 50
71 Carey Primeau 1 49 0 0 0 0 50 50
72 Auggie 0 0 49 0 0 0 49 49
73 Chris Turek 26 18 0 0 3 1 48 48
74 Christian Soto 24 0 0 23 0 0 47 47
75 Pete Rangel 23 0 17 7 0 0 47 47
76 Evan Farrar 18 9 14 3 0 0 44 44
77 Inge 0 10 9 17 4 4 44 44
78 Matt Kaminecki 0 0 0 42 0 0 42 42
79 Andy Colitheru 0 0 27 15 0 0 42 42
80 Kiecker 0 0 0 0 40 2 42 42
81 Paul Lask 0 0 41 0 0 0 41 41
82 Adam Zingrove 0 25 0 0 15 1 41 41
83 Brandon Ference 0 0 40 0 0 0 40 40
84 Max Riordan 3 2 0 0 33 2 40 40
85 Booker 39 0 0 0 0 0 39 39
86 Jacob Ortuna 0 0 39 0 0 0 39 39
87 Rivaldo 37 0 0 0 0 0 37 37
88 Jason Boynton 0 0 0 0 36 1 37 37
89 Colby Allen 0 0 20 16 0 0 36 36
90 Nicole Carr 36 0 0 0 0 0 36 36
91 Nathan 0 0 0 34 0 0 34 34
92 Aaron Brown 0 34 0 0 0 0 34 34
93 Eric Bork 33 0 0 0 0 0 33 33
94 Brent Wegscheid 31 0 0 0 0 0 31 31
95 Josh Deth 0 0 29 0 0 0 29 29
96 Jeremy Treister 0 29 0 0 0 0 29 29
97 Kathy Schubert 11 6 5 4 2 1 29 27
98 Matt Ramey 28 0 0 0 0 0 28 28
99 Casstedaro Simpson 10 5 4 8 0 0 27 27
100 Jeff Kao 27 0 0 0 0 0 27 27
101 Scott Kroll 0 0 0 12 14 1 27 27
102 Jon Maglio 0 0 0 0 25 2 27 27
103 Lucy Fauke 3 21 0 2 0 0 26 26
104 Susan Smolinski 25 0 0 0 0 0 25 25
105 Jon Greenfield 0 0 0 14 7 4 25 25
106 Carlos Cabalu 0 13 10 0 0 0 23 23
107 Lucky 21 0 0 0 0 0 21 21
108 Ben Miller 20 0 0 0 0 0 20 20
109 Brent Olds 19 0 0 0 0 0 19 19
110 Jamie Zurhide 17 0 0 0 0 0 17 17
111 Sasha 0 0 0 0 16 1 17 17
112 The Spark 16 0 0 0 0 0 16 16
113 Eric Von Munz 15 0 0 0 0 0 15 15
114 Lisa Phillips 9 0 6 0 0 0 15 15
115 Gareth Newfeld 14 0 0 0 0 0 14 14
116 Damara Kaminecki 0 0 0 13 0 0 13 13
117 Andy Hartch 13 0 0 0 0 0 13 13
118 Andrew Solomon 12 0 0 0 0 0 12 12
119 Archana (?) 0 0 0 11 0 0 11 11
120 Kate Ronan 0 0 11 0 0 0 11 11
121 Taylor Terry 0 11 0 0 0 0 11 11
122 Matt Sipple 0 0 0 0 9 1 10 10
123 David McLean 0 0 0 9 0 0 9 9
124 Michael Nordine 0 0 8 0 0 0 8 8
125 Dave Schlabowske 0 0 0 0 6 1 7 7
126 Chris Whitacre 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
127 Derek Boutner 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 3
128 Jeff Perkins 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
129 Jon Quick 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
130 Jen Nordhem 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
131 Rich J 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1
132 Chris Dilts 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
133 Dre 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1
134 Chris Gagnon 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1

schloe mo

ok gibouyexxx and teabaggg, we should start training together.

40 Evan Skow 59 8 25 0 22 1 115 115
41 Joe Phillips 45 15 23 0 30 1 114 114
43 Tristan Coulter 73 0 36 0 1 1 111 111