Saw Levi Leipheimer yesterday
Dan
B. Lafferty
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Where are the Odessa photos?
John Forrest Tomlinson
>He raced in the Copperopolis Road Race on 4-15-2006
Masters or P-1-2?
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> On 16 Apr 2006 14:55:50 -0700, "Dan" <banquo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >He raced in the Copperopolis Road Race on 4-15-2006
>
> Masters or P-1-2?
Levi isn't old enough - Masters starts at 35+ in Copperopolis,
like most Norcal races. Is it discrimination against 30-34
year olds? Or a reflection of the way Californians even more
so than the rest of the US put a claim on eternal youthfulness,
so that 30 year olds refuse to admit they are over the hill?
You tell me.
Dan
B. Lafferty wrote:
> Where are the Odessa photos?
I am afraid I don't get your meaning, maybe because I do not frequent
this group. Try:
http://www.trekearth.com/search.php?phrase=odessa&type=
Dan
He was with P-1-2 but I think it was just a training ride. He had a SRM
powermeter mounted on the bike.
http://www.srm.de/
Boy, those things are pricey.
brian_...@yahoo.com
>
> He was with P-1-2 but I think it was just a training ride. He had a SRM
> powermeter mounted on the bike.
> http://www.srm.de/
> Boy, those things are pricey.
Riis won Amstel one year with one of those on his bike.....
alan_atwood
Pro Tour team; and as such is not allowed to compete in Masters races.
Alan
Robert Chung
> He raced in the Copperopolis Road Race on 4-15-2006
Were you racing? Did he tell you to "get dropped"?
Robert Chung
> Riis won Amstel one year with one of those on his bike.....
http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/wattage/riis/YetAnotherRiisPlot.png
(horizontal axis is hours into the ride).
Dan
I considered racing, brought the bike and togs but managed to wuss out.
When I come up with a good excuse for this (forgot to shave my legs?),
I will post it. Maybe I would have raced if there was a masters cat
Fred to sign up for. I worked the feed zone and took the photos.
I don't follow this group and I suspect your question may be related to
a poor relationship between amatuers and the pros. Do the pros or Levi
in particular, tell mere mortals to "get dropped?" He appeared to be
friendly with the riders when with them.
I didn't see him socializing but he did thank the lady who gave him a
water bottle. My kid had hoped to say hi to him but couldn't find him
after the race.
b...@mambo.ucolick.org
> Robert Chung wrote:
> > Were you racing? Did he tell you to "get dropped"?
> I don't follow this group and I suspect your question may be related to
> a poor relationship between amatuers and the pros. Do the pros or Levi
> in particular, tell mere mortals to "get dropped?" He appeared to be
> friendly with the riders when with them.
Read this world-famous-for-RBR story:
That's where it comes from. It's not a pro/amateur insult.
Dan
Thanks, where I come from we say "sh** or get off the pot."
It was pretty cool to see how the big leagues compare to the bush
leagues.
He did a 22 mile lap in about 57 min riding pretty much alone on rough
roads.
Jason Waddell
Benjo,
Thanks to you and Chung for the stroll down memory lane.... I don't
see the bike near as much as I would like. I am completely exhausted
with University and work committments these days. I did have a
conversation a few months ago with an old friend after one of my "long"
rides of 2hrs when we met for lunch after the ride. it went sorta like
this...
him: why were you so quiet on the bike today?
me: I was just thinking about some things.
him: like what?
me: just racing and stuff.
him: oh, are you gonna race this year?
me: no, well maybe
him: oh, you were thinking about when you raced?
me: yep, I came to a realization today.
him: yeah?
me: I realized that I will never again be able to do what I used to on
the bike.
at this point I quietly finished my beer and pedaled home....
thanks for the memories guys,
jason
Ewoud Dronkert
> Thanks, where I come from we say "sh** or get off the pot."
In rbr it's SHIT OR GET OFF THE POT!!!1!11!!! but only if you're fat.
> He did a 22 mile lap in about 57 min riding pretty much alone on rough
> roads.
So he WAS just training!
--
E. Dronkert
Donald Munro
> Thanks, where I come from we say "sh** or get off the pot."
Oddly enough that has also already been covered in rbr.
Morgan Fletcher
> I considered racing, brought the bike and togs but managed to wuss out.
> When I come up with a good excuse for this (forgot to shave my legs?),
> I will post it. Maybe I would have raced if there was a masters cat
> Fred to sign up for. I worked the feed zone and took the photos.
I am a master cat fred and I raced and I got dropped, but it was still
epic.
> I didn't see him socializing but he did thank the lady who gave him a
> water bottle. My kid had hoped to say hi to him but couldn't find him
> after the race.
I saw him after the race, chatting with Ben Jacques-Mayne. I walked up to
him, interrupted, grabbed his hand and shook it and said "Glad you're
here." Yeah, I'm a knob. But it was cool to see him racing there. Last year
Zabriskie raced it, took 2nd to a local guy.
Coppperopolis is an epic race. It doesn't suit me but I still love it.
Morgan
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Robert Chung
> me: yep, I came to a realization today.
> him: yeah?
> me: I realized that I will never again be able to do what I used to on
> the bike.
I had a vaguely similar moment a few years ago when I realized that it was
unlikely I would ever again be able to do what I used to do with Kristin
and Karen, the twin gymnasts.
William Asher
And now, due to the benefits of the new rbr virtual nailing life's
worth scoring system, you don't have to!
--
Bill Asher
h squared
> him: oh, you were thinking about when you raced?
> me: yep, I came to a realization today.
> him: yeah?
> me: I realized that I will never again be able to do what I used to on
> the bike.
>
> at this point I quietly finished my beer and pedaled home....
waddell, you wrote a good post :) my reply is retarded, but i'm female
and irrational, so everyone can just pretend to read it and then pat me
on the head and tell me i look pretty when i'm talking nonsense..
anyway, i remember once a year or two ago i was out running and
listening to the radio and there was a line from a goofy pop song that
said, "by the time i recognize this moment, this moment will be gone..."
and it made me think of the last race i had done where i was as good as
i was ever going to be.
i had no idea on that last race day that i wouldn't race ever again or
that i was only a year away from middle aged fat ass. i thought i had
hundreds of more moments like that coming my way, but it turned out to
be the last one of its kind for me. no big deal in the grand scheme of
things :) but still, i liked your post.
heather
b...@mambo.ucolick.org
> Benjo,
>
> Thanks to you and Chung for the stroll down memory lane.... I don't
> see the bike near as much as I would like. I am completely exhausted
> with University and work committments these days. I did have a
> conversation a few months ago with an old friend after one of my "long"
> rides of 2hrs when we met for lunch after the ride. it went sorta like
> this...
> him: why were you so quiet on the bike today?
> me: I was just thinking about some things.
> him: like what?
> me: just racing and stuff.
> him: oh, are you gonna race this year?
> me: no, well maybe
> him: oh, you were thinking about when you raced?
> me: yep, I came to a realization today.
> him: yeah?
> me: I realized that I will never again be able to do what I used to on
> the bike.
>
> at this point I quietly finished my beer and pedaled home....
>
> thanks for the memories guys,
> jason
Cap'n Waddle,
Thanks to you for posting it in the first place.
I know (a little) about school and work wearing you out.
Look at it this way, I also may never again be able to do what
I used to do on the bike - and I sucked to begin with.
Even if your long ride is 2 hours, at least you are riding it
and enjoying it. There are burned out guys out there who
never look at the bike again. You have your head and
your integrity intact. Plus, you can drink a beer after the
ride and not have to weigh your oatmeal and shit like that.
There's something to be said for not weighing your oatmeal.
Ben
I hope nobody posting to RBR has ever actually weighed
their oatmeal, but you never know.
Pudd'nhead Wilson
> i was ever going to be.
The reason I took up crack-potting is because I can always do better
today than I did yesterday.
Nobody
>> Benjo,
>>
>> Thanks to you and Chung for the stroll down memory lane.... I don't
>> see the bike near as much as I would like. I am completely exhausted
>> with University and work committments these days. I did have a
>> conversation a few months ago with an old friend after one of my "long"
>> rides of 2hrs when we met for lunch after the ride. it went sorta like
>> this...
>> him: why were you so quiet on the bike today?
>> me: I was just thinking about some things.
>> him: like what?
>> me: just racing and stuff.
>> him: oh, are you gonna race this year?
>> me: no, well maybe
>> him: oh, you were thinking about when you raced?
>> me: yep, I came to a realization today.
>> him: yeah?
>> me: I realized that I will never again be able to do what I used to on
>> the bike.
>>
>> at this point I quietly finished my beer and pedaled home....
>>
>> thanks for the memories guys,
>> jason
>
That's not so bad. You are probably at your peak in school
and work It's bad when you look back and realize you will
never be able to do what you used to in school and work.
The bike stuff is just candy.
Dave
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h squared
> Ben
> I hope nobody posting to RBR has ever actually weighed
> their oatmeal, but you never know.
umm. yesss. only unbalanced obsessive types would do something like
that. i'm sure there aren't any of those kinds on rbr.
i don't weigh my oatmeal, but i measured out my breakfast cereal (1 cup)
only just this morning. i count out my corn chips (baked not fried, 18
to a serving). and it ain't because i'm trying to enhance my
performance, trust me :)
but your point to jason is a good one- i'm just owning up.
heather (aka 6.32455532 squared)
Theodore Heise
No nonsense. A fitting response to an excellent post.
--
Theodore (Ted) Heise <th...@heise.nu> Bloomington, IN, USA
Donald Munro
>> him: oh, you were thinking about when you raced?
>> me: yep, I came to a realization today.
>> him: yeah?
>> me: I realized that I will never again be able to do what I used to on
>> the bike.
>> at this point I quietly finished my beer and pedaled home....
h squared wrote:
> anyway, i remember once a year or two ago i was out running and
> listening to the radio and there was a line from a goofy pop song that
> said, "by the time i recognize this moment, this moment will be gone..."
> and it made me think of the last race i had done where i was as good as
> i was ever going to be.
>
> i had no idea on that last race day that i wouldn't race ever again or
> that i was only a year away from middle aged fat ass. i thought i had
> hundreds of more moments like that coming my way, but it turned out to
> be the last one of its kind for me. no big deal in the grand scheme of
> things :) but still, i liked your post.
So why don't you swallow your pride and blow your savings on a Trek in
Dicovery colours with matching Discovery jersey and bib and become a fatty
master. Unless of course blue doesn't go with blonde ?
b...@mambo.ucolick.org
> b...@mambo.ucolick.org wrote:
I was going to verbally slap you upside the head for
this, but then remembered the time a friend yelled
at me for taking three weeks to eat a Cadbury chocolate
bar, two squares a day, and I thought I probably didn't
have the standing to say anything.
Ben
You can't spell astrocdphysicist
without "OCD".
Robert Chung
> Ben
> You can't spell astrocdphysicist
> without "OCD".
AstroBoy,
Your calculus TA do T&A like this?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1873635453969513506
artemu...@yahoo.com
The other day I was running on the deck of the Riverboat and a little
bird landed right in front of me. Right there on the deck of the
Riverboat. It was a bluebird. It stared at me there in my charcoal
grey sweatpants and black sweatshirt and cap. And to be honest, it
seemed like it's look was slightly disdainful as if to say "Hey, you're
one year away from middle aged you know what." Well, I like to keep
myself fit as can be. You could easily bounce a quarter off of my abs
and I must say that quarter'd fly high because I spend a lot of time on
the Riverboat doing sit ups and crunches. I looked at that little bird
and I got down to it's eye level right there on the Riverboat and I
said to him, I said "Lookie here little birdie, I'm keeping myself
fit, I'm doing my dad gum best to take care of myself. Why the disdain
in that countenance of yours?" He simply looked at me, pooped on the
deck and flew away. Now, I don't want any jokes about poop decks right
now but my point is that life isn't really about abs or performance -
it's really about what's in your head and your heart. In the grand
scheme of things, as you say, that's all that really matters.
Good Ol' Artemus Brown
Making the world a whole lot brighter...one post at a time.