Your first race next season

On Oct 16, 4:31*pm, "Tom Kunich" cyclintom@yahoo. com wrote:

Don't rush your condition on the track. Be sure to move into it slowly so
that you develop the proper reactions.

You can develop the proper reactions-- or, as some people put it,
"learn not to try to stop pedaling" (one 'l', English is a stupid
language) on the road, on a fixed gear. That Hans would probably make
a demon fixer, complete with rear brake, which IMHO is even more
useful on a fixed gear bike than on a freewheeler.

A pitfall there, however, is, indeed, getting used to having brakes.
This might cause a daydreaming track rider to leave the warmup circle
at a comparatively high rate of speed, and get almost to his parking
place in the racks still moving far too quickly and with no way to
stop.

It was close, but at the last possible nanosecond I found a way
through the milling throng, by scant inches.

That would have been a hard one to come back from g.

Oh yeah, first race, first race.

I'll be in a new (actually, old, or older) age group in '09. Ha ha,
visions of sugar plums and more medals and such. Third time around for
this "upgrade", so I do know that it's really just "same guys, fewer
and fewer places to hide". Ah, but the dream... g

Being in some kind of halfway decent shape is a big effort, and reward
enough; being able to keep up, even uphill, on the rides where you can
hear the medals jingling (if you listen close) is getting to be within
reach, and is even better yet. Racing, even just as pack filler, is
gravy. Mighty good gravy, of course. Little chunks of sausage, specks
of black pepper, and a couple of biscuits to pour it over, yum yum! Do
better and you get the the pork chops, and eggs, and toast with butter
and strawberry jam!

Any of you f-ing ectomorphs hungry yet? --D-y

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" wrote:

Being in some kind of halfway decent shape is a big effort, and reward
enough; being able to keep up, even uphill, on the rides where you can
hear the medals jingling (if you listen close) is getting to be within
reach, and is even better yet. Racing, even just as pack filler, is
gravy. Mighty good gravy, of course. Little chunks of sausage, specks
of black pepper, and a couple of biscuits to pour it over, yum yum! Do
better and you get the the pork chops, and eggs, and toast with butter
and strawberry jam!

Any of you f-ing ectomorphs hungry yet? --D-y

Shutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutup!

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."

On Oct 16, 1:45 pm, LawBoy01 wrote:
I can't wait until the road racing season starts up again. I'm gonna
puke on the hills of Lago Vista during the 35+ 4/5 race at La
Primavera (my first race of next season), but it's still gonna be fun.

What are the rest of you going to take on for your first race of the
upcoming season? What are you doing now and/or do you plan to do to
get ready for that first race (besides doping)?

Interesting - is that Lago Vista as "North of Cedar Park Lago Vista" ?
I am not much of a racer - as a matter of fact I am about to ride
my first race ever - time trial in Tour de Gruene - but I plan to
spend this winter diligently - some cyclocross (Dirt Derby) and
MTBing at Walnut Creek - and hopefully next year I will be ready to
start racing at the lowest level.

On Oct 17, 11:08*am, Ryan Cousineau wrote:

(I typed, longingly):
(snip) chunks of sausage, specks
of black pepper, and a couple of biscuits to pour it over, yum yum! Do
better and you get the the pork chops, and eggs, and toast with butter
and strawberry jam!

Any of you f-ing ectomorphs hungry yet? *--D-y

(Ryan replied):
Shutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutupshutup!

OK, there's one. More?

Oh yeah, I forgot: Organic Columbian, French Press, half and half,
turbinado sugar. Two good big steaming cups.
Maybe a short orange juice in there somewhere, too. --D-y

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Woland99 wrote:

I am not much of a racer - as a matter of fact I am about to ride
my first race ever - time trial in Tour de Gruene

How did you do?

Mike G.
(was there too)
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