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Sponsored by Clenbuterol and Spanish Beef.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-14039421531584054282011-07-07T11:40:00.002+10:002011-07-07T11:43:06.211+10:00You think models have it tough... try being a recreational/knowhere near pro cyclist<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When you think eating disorders, you normally think teenage girls, tweens and women who work in the fashion industry are of course prime candidates... so where do cyclists come into it? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But anyway, we are discussing the eating disorders of the recreational cyclist who have NO chance of winning at the the Tour de France, but, he (Rob) and she (me) is like that little train saying I-think-I-can I-think-I-can... toot toot!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.sports-ish.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Fat-Cyclist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200px" i$="true" src="http://www.sports-ish.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Fat-Cyclist.jpg" width="148px" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your normal recreational cyclist looks a little something like this, I made the picture smaller so it would look less offensive, but anyways, staying ON TOPIC. Your recreational Tour de France winning cyclist is likely to buy a bike that is NOT UCI compliant... just as bad as doping if you as me! </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Luckily the UCI has taken pity on these poor bastards and allowed them to have their sub 4kg bikes that cost approximately $20,000.00 dollars (doesn't include pedals and carbon cages) because the UCI realises that the only threat they pose to the Tour de France is weight loss by bike riding and then too much bike riding which could mean less time in front of the television.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYD_3ttT7SX_ZpdgpbOpSsfQePXrumU6ZCihqVHZ8BgEwzfR6psIP82oKtjpL9PYwEZOouHw_uZea8Dk1UbmSjLC09AvsEM7gwWI-Jt0OGO4UfuGKtv8XHr_H0MqcTIy_kn9o6NxIlPsM/s1600/lomdy08-skinny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="228px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYD_3ttT7SX_ZpdgpbOpSsfQePXrumU6ZCihqVHZ8BgEwzfR6psIP82oKtjpL9PYwEZOouHw_uZea8Dk1UbmSjLC09AvsEM7gwWI-Jt0OGO4UfuGKtv8XHr_H0MqcTIy_kn9o6NxIlPsM/s320/lomdy08-skinny.jpg" width="320px" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Once the recreational cyclist has realised their 'potential' they will then look at dieting.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I was once told by an ULTRA MARATHON RUNNER the secret to loosing weight... get hungry.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That guy to your left is at the first stage of his race weight, he's obviously lost a LOT of weight since his time in Lampre and has been given a better position with Astana... keep in mind that this is NOT extreme, this is a perfectly normal reaction when you realise that you are gonna be an awesome state, race weight is key and this has got nothing to do with eating disorders at all...</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Obsessions can only go so far right? Wrong, the above is nothing, the process is something like this, I'll put down the steps so you can follow them.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 1: Love cycling so much that it hurts</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 2: Give up any time you have with your family and friends</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 3: Ride 100km, 200km, 250km and realise what a HARD MAN you are</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 4: Race D Grade</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 5: Make B Grade and break a collar bone</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 6: Put on weight whilst recovering</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 7: Bitch about how fat you are via email to other supportive cycling friends</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 8: Feel guilty about the food that your eating, you should also feel guilty about eating Tuna with Spring Water as well</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 9: Get a coach</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 10: Get SERIOUS</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 11: Make a comeback into another sport that you excelled at whilst you where MUCH younger</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 12: Get Injured</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 13: Sook about injury</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 14: Tell someone who cares</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 15: Physio</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Step 16: Remember to complain about exactly HOW FAT YOU ARE...</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">By the time that you've completed all of these steps you should have reached your ultimate weight, the skinniest you will EVER be, you where never this weight when you where a child and you will NEVER be this weight again.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb5n0QeJhBpfP0zkK7Dm9W6b1uoI0fGsy6b2llkDSAwfSeOnxO2B7EWEeiaGMcPfqB4jckVA91capD5l6DQ8xwra5asRtRR0MDP2fgGIJp7bhHSx2QKB2SOZZKqH2ktJC1VlgV5056F69H/s400/bradroubaix.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb5n0QeJhBpfP0zkK7Dm9W6b1uoI0fGsy6b2llkDSAwfSeOnxO2B7EWEeiaGMcPfqB4jckVA91capD5l6DQ8xwra5asRtRR0MDP2fgGIJp7bhHSx2QKB2SOZZKqH2ktJC1VlgV5056F69H/s320/bradroubaix.jpg" width="211px" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Welcome to the world of competitive sooking about your weight and your optimal performance, depending on how many injuries that you get, you could be here for a long time or a short time.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Hands up if you have an eating disorder... Rob? You better be raising your hand along with the other 70% of all cyclists. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">And in other more important news, I didn't spell check this, and Cav won a stage at the Tour de France!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-33444582738208126382011-04-07T17:38:00.000+10:002011-04-07T17:38:24.119+10:00"I just ate all of your slice... Oh my... fantastic!" - Kase Anderson<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I've been a weeeeee bit obsessed recently. Yep. Obsessed about food, not unusual for me but you thought I was gonna say cycling. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I went through a stage where I ate a lot of cheese on toast, good cheese and good toast, amazing combination!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Anyways... <b>Little pieces of heaven for consumption!</b> (Squished Banana Slice)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">3 large banana's</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">2 cups of oats </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">1/3 cup of vegetable oil</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">splash of vanilla</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">1 cup of dates sliced small</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">1/2 cup of macadamia's roughly chopped</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">1/2 cup of pecans roughly chopped</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">1 handful of dark chocolate drops or milk chocolate drops (depends how healthy you are or if your like Paul you'll just leave it out)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Turn oven on to 180 degrees. Squish the banana until its squished, potato masher is good to use, throw everything else in and then mix it all up. Put it in a slice tray, I use baking paper to stop any sticking and its easier to clean after. Cook for about 30minutes or until the oats and nuts are going nice and golden brown, remove from oven, allow to cool and cut as desired; I put it in the fridge in a sealed container.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I think this recipe will be great for the kids, its high in energy and low in sugars and stuff like that and should fill them up with a healthy snack. Also good for hungry husbands, wives, children, aunts, uncles, co-workers, cyclists, sports people etc etc etc.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">And in the end you should have</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Enjoy, you really will love it!!! Please DON'T ask how much of it I've eaten.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-85524758197404780192011-04-03T18:53:00.002+10:002011-04-03T18:56:19.621+10:00Gorgeous, Sxy Women...<div style="text-align: justify;">Oh how it sucks to be you... </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Normally I write sexually motivated posts about women, mostly I do this because I'm the only girl and everyone else is a man, so I figure they need something to think about and I find that they respond nicely to pictures.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Anyways, racing and the boys (men) who race.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They're surprisingly hot, I remember reading somewhere and I quote, "all male cyclists look better with sunglasses on." I don't know if that's true or not, because I know a lot of beautiful/handsome/sexy men who cycle and its not just about the face, its actually about the entire... </div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">When I look at a male cyclist, its got nothing to do with their face, at least it doesn't to begin with, normally it follows the following... I'm using pictures to illustrate my point as usual.</div><br />
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I like calves, although this doesn't tell you too much about the rider, it only says they have good muscle definition or can develop muscle well. They could actually suck.<br />
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I like the look of them from behind, used to ride with this one boy purely because he had a rock hard arse... face... meh, not so good, attitude, surprisingly dull, the sex... not the way I like it.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then I look at.. the frame people, not the girls!</div><br />
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If its not ascetically pleasing to me then he probably wont be either.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then kit comes into it, does he match? Like this man? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Feel free to stare at that picture just a little bit longer .. I'll wait.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So that's the start of the fantasy, a man with good calves, followed by a great butt, and a good bike that he matches... oh come on ladies, thats no all their is too it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There has to be something said for experience, a bunch of E graders out on their first race are hardly sxy, some are if they're <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbagging">sandbagging</a> it with their C59's and Campy wheelset, cause they where actually a pro back in the 50's and can only just now afford the bling... </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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There's a lot of things I'd do for a C59.. if it where pink.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sit down and watch a race, a crit is best, you get to see them more often; race around and around the track. Watch them play out their tactics, their speed, their experienced with what they do, they know how the race will play, they know when to work and when not to. They know their bike and how to use them, they also have this arrogance about them that is terrible alluring to almost any female.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Any man can achieve the above, but it takes brilliance to actually get the arrogance right. If you want to lick it from top to bottom and stop in all the important places along the way then you should just say something.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thanks for coming... </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-14023133912221671822011-03-31T12:01:00.009+11:002011-04-01T09:00:09.290+11:00HackPRO goes to Canberra<div style="text-align: justify;"><code></code><br /><code></code><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><code><span style="font-weight: bold;">HackPRO</span>, initially formed to coagulate a bunch of tossers and poseurs into a Team for the Audax Alpine Classic, </code><code>is visiting the Nations capital in October. Yep. <a href="http://www.visitcanberra.com.au/">Canberra</a>, here we come! </code><code></code><br /><code></code><br /><code>Oh and we might also do <a href="http://www.clubsonline.com.au/site/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_main&OrgID=4063&dts=3132011111117">a bit of riding</a> while we're there. How hard could it be?</code><br /><code></code><br /><code></code><br /><code><code><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.pedalpower.org.au/images/fitzprofile.gif"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 439px; height: 232px;" src="http://www.pedalpower.org.au/images/fitzprofile.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></code></code><br /><code>I later discovered - thanks <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=581084932#%21/russnoble">Russell</a> - there is a 250km painfest planned by the organisers as well. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=581084932#%21/3l84r70">Andres</a>* was also keen to extend the fun. So upon realising this I promptly changed <a href="http://www.facebook.com/welovecycling/posts/161097560614650?ref=notif&notif_t=like#%21/event.php?eid=170712886301282">the Event</a> from 207km to 250km! This didn't go down too well with one of the new members of HackPRO. What's an extra 43km between friends huh?</code><br /><code></code><br /><code>Ultimately, this is just a training run for <a href="http://hackprocyclingteam.blogspot.com/2011/03/death-camp-want-to-be-hack-pro.html">Death Camp</a> planned later in the year. Several days of mountainous hurt. It's what the fans want! Honest!</code><br /><code></code><br /><code>And besides, who doesn't want the sense of accomplishment you get on rolling over the line in one of these events?</code><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />*<span style="font-size:85%;"> Who IS Andres anyway?</span><br /><code></code><br /><code></code><br /><code></code><br /><code></code><br /><code></code><br /><code></code><br /><code></code><br /></div><code></code><br /><code></code></div>Sean Hanniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18390467384897526152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-36595160903708772072011-03-30T21:32:00.000+11:002011-03-30T21:32:05.383+11:00Turn it up... the music you fool!<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>*Warning, I'm not taking the piss, I'm suggesting you do something about your miserable fucking life and turn it into the best thing you've ever experienced* </b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I got a DM on Twitter the other day, it said, "Young people think they know it all." and there was a HaHa at the end, but I don't feel that its relevant.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm tossing up the idea of doing Exercise Science, I need to find out more info, but told mum and her words where, "your not smart enough..."</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Wow... talk about deflation.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Anyways there's this feeling that exists, its called happiness and according to Google Images, happiness is something like</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Right, interesting thought, I was thinking something more along the lines off...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I was discussing with a person who shall otherwise remain nameless, but for the sake of it lets call him self-declared-genius, about winning and not just winning but women sitting on the sidelines.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm not sure where I stand on that at the moment (women sitting on the sidelines and wanting to try but don't), what I know is pretty straight forward.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Everyone needs a theme song, mine changes weekly or when ever my mood changes, this week I'm hanging with the Latino Pop crowd, how very chic of me, anyways this one is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH6_PHBuLNI">Liberate by Natalia</a> I'm not too sure about the clip, I heard it first without the clip. Just click it.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Anyways, this is my theme song for my sales job, I've got sales targets to reach and you don't always want to reach them, its not always your day either, motivation goes up and down.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My point is... yes there is one... sometimes you need to JUMP.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I jumped, I went back to university with no money in the bank, bills to pay and I only had one shift a week to bring some money home.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What did I do?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I sat down at the computer and applied for every single job I clicked on seek, probably I applied for 30 jobs, 5 days later I was employed.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">it could take you all the way to Kona, wanna here those words? "You ARE an IRONMAN."</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You want to stand at the TOP of your field and be the best that YOU can be? You want to choose your life? Take a chance, there's no safety net and you could totally fail, but it'll be worth the journey.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm not even near the end, but I will experience </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">because I WANT to finish first, and first isn't given to you.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You TAKE IT. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">None of what I do would be possible without HackPRO, make your own team and treat them how you wish to be treated and worship the ground they walk on.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-61183228908154519372011-03-20T17:29:00.001+11:002011-03-20T20:41:47.347+11:00Its not a matter of if, its a matter of when.<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Crashing happens, cyclists get hit by things and before we get to involved with crashing, special thanks to Carly for this weeks song, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66wVo7uNw&feature=related">'Move on Up by Curtis Mayfield.' </a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-klOqx8mtHqM/TYWWJ8j5gRI/AAAAAAAABH8/c5G5yDGUvqA/s1600/cars-on-the-road-JT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-klOqx8mtHqM/TYWWJ8j5gRI/AAAAAAAABH8/c5G5yDGUvqA/s320/cars-on-the-road-JT.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and then sometimes</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In crit racing your biggest enemy is actually the person beside you, we're all fighting for a good position in the pace line, accidents happen and I'll be throwing my most recent and first crit crash down to experience.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I also wont be petty enough to lay blame, the people beside me could have behaved differently and I'm sure I could as well, but at the time they did the best at staying upright, so kudos to them!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But anyway it it went something like this </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">chasing some girls who looked like they wanted to breakaway, which we don't seem to like in B Grade, so went back to this</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and then at some point I ended up here</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Not me, but good enough, then you go through the whole moment of, I crashed... what exactly hurts, where does it hurt, is that my shoulder or my neck, why is my calf hurting, how's my head?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My left shoulder took most of the force along with my elbows which are nicely scratched and damaged, I've got some road rash on my butt and thats about it.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Yes I cried. No, I'm not embarrased that I cried, it really hurt and the shock is crap.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'll be back on the bike tomorrow, maybe not on the road, but definately on the trainer, I'll try for the road on Tuesday and see how I go, until then my Murray to Moyne Adventure is over, my long term goals are more important at the moment and the strain of a long ride on my shoulder isn't worth it.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The road season is upon us and maybe I'll ride in <a href="http://www.skcc.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=461:total-rush-point-series-climax&catid=57:crit-racing&Itemid=152">SKCC</a> club champs for some more criterium experience, we'll see how I'm feeling in a few weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'm not weak enough to walk away from a sport that I love.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-35261933087478628342011-03-14T18:27:00.002+11:002011-03-14T18:43:02.456+11:00Girl Envy. I really want her thighs.<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Yeah I know, I should really be telling you about the race... here's the 'low-down' or is it 'down-low'?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Average speed 35.4km/h</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Max Speed 53.3km/h</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Didn't throw up</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Didn't come last</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Didn't crash...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">That's a good race. Women's B Grade at SKCC in case you where wondering. Oh and favorite pre-race song this week... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ZUuHXgQ8k">Alejandro</a>.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Anyways, back to girl envy, I was with Madgan today, who else am I ever with, he is my trusted training partner and one of the reasons why I'm able to do the speeds that I'm doing now. Oh yeah, seriously, when he dances up that hill with his 60kg body he does it with ease... me? Oh for me its like death, screw DEATH CAMP, I just ride with people who are fitter than me.. problem solved, its great training!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We where down at Mordi with all the other cyclists who weren't actually stupid enough to try out the Three Peaks Challenge, knowing that the Audax Event is by far superior than the Bicycle Victoria one and.. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">que dream like sequence...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">There she was, blond, tall, legs up to my armpits man, amazing and that lovely tanned skin, seriously, I always say I'd only turn for a red head (my bike) but I'd consider it with this Amazonian Goddess. But it wasn't really that she was blond and tall and had tanned skin, it was more them legs and the muscle definition in those thighs... </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Liz Hatch is the original poster girl, for sxy looking pics in the world of Women's Cycling, she's pioneered getting her kit of in the name of more media. Somehow though, I don't actually think that's what she cares about, sometimes I think she just likes getting her kit off.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Sounds almost pornographic doesn't it boys... pics? Of course there are pics.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Okay, she's tall and blond, but it isn't who we saw down at Mordi. Pity.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This picture is from the World Champs in Melbourne this year, I love it, and have loved it from the moment I saw it.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I can't find the exact picture that I'm after, which is a drainer, I really should have snapped her picture on my iPhone. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">On the fly and just cause I can I'd like to add... </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I read a post from another blog about Women's Cycling about two minutes ago, it was about American racing and how hard it is to get women's racing a place next to the men. I think most of us ride road because of the fun, the mates that we make, and the intense need for speed.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I've been hit by two cars, crashed on a descent down a mountain and few other hick ups here and there and I never once thought about not getting back on my bike. Most of these women are the same, they just want to ride, but we'd also like some recognition in the process.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">There are some, amazing women out there riding bikes and mostly we're all beautiful like the girls above, I envy all of them for their dedication and their experience and I hope that one day I get to pull on a team jersey for a team that I want to race with.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Women's Racing Rocks! </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-11660966584667763482011-03-04T20:55:00.001+11:002011-03-05T21:56:31.222+11:00Death Camp. Want to be HACK PRO?<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>7 Peaks in 7 Days.</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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December 10th 2011 at 0500.<br />
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<b>Location.</b><br />
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Bright, VIC, Australia... MAP <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Bright+VIC,+Australia&aq=0&sll=39.218388,-84.856063&sspn=0.124215,0.308647&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Bright+Victoria,+Australia&z=11">here</a>, we will also travel to Lake Mountain <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Lake+Mountain,+Victoria,+Australia&aq=&sll=48.858548,-116.692164&sspn=0.052743,0.154324&g=Lake+Mountain&ie=UTF8&hq=Lake+Mountain,&hnear=Victoria,+Australia&ll=-37.315568,145.530396&spn=0.965492,2.469177&z=9&iwloc=A">here</a>, Mt Buller <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Mt+Buller&aq=&sll=-37.315568,145.530396&sspn=0.965492,2.469177&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Mt+Buller+Victoria,+Australia&ll=-37.147182,146.45462&spn=0.511196,1.234589&z=10">here</a> and Mt Baw Baw <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Mt+Baw+Baw&aq=&sll=-37.147182,146.45462&sspn=0.511196,1.234589&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Mt+Baw+Baw&z=11">here</a>.<br />
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<b>Personal Sacrifice </b><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Jens, our favorite tough man, "Shut Up Legs!"</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Like every time we go out on the road to train or just ride with friends, you could have an accident, you take your OWN risks on this death camp, there is no sag wagon and their is no ambulance sitting behind you, you climb at your own pace and meet your TEAM mates at the top of the mountain. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">No matter how long it takes for your TEAM mates to get to the top you will WAIT for each of them (me) to get to the top.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This man knows what its about, he's a hero...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://view.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9345801/tour-2010-stage-nine/tour-2010-stage-nine.jpg?size=500&imageId=9345801" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://view.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9345801/tour-2010-stage-nine/tour-2010-stage-nine.jpg?size=500&imageId=9345801" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b> How to climb?</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lance Armstrong only just retired.... AGAIN. Anyone else want to go back to grinding up a mountain? I do, probably this isn't the reason why he retired in the picture, but it will do.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Who's going to join us? How many will their be?</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Want to come?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Click <a href="http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=Are+you+sure+you+want+to+die%3F">here</a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Now that you've answered the above question from clicking here... or there.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Are you ready?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">To be all that you can be!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Then I suggest you....</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">and</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Qualifications? Oh yeah, my bad I forgot to mention, you've gotta qualify for this, requirements are as follows...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">1. Fitz's Challenge, ACT.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">2. DBMA Ride, VIC (Melbourne Cup Day 2011... oh yeah, its back, for the LAST time).</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">3. You've got the chance to go on trial with Hannos in Sydney, NSW.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">4. IF we DON'T like you, then your not coming.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">You can fulfill ALL or SOME of the requirements. We look forward to your company and hope that you'll survive the winter training that is required to partake. Keep in mind that there is climbing and of course there will always be other obsticles along the way... expect the unexpected.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Cost has not yet been decided, normally the go is to split accomodation, food and fuel depending on whose in what car.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I suggest you put your leave forms in early ladies and tell your wife/husband that you'll be gone and explain to your kids that your going to make them proud... If you have none of that, suggest you tell your boss to go fuck themselves and their pointless 9-5 job and we'll see you soon.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Go on... DARE YOU! </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-19017161153959419562011-02-24T21:36:00.001+11:002011-02-24T21:41:34.780+11:00Ready, set... you can hold your line, right?<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Turns out that riding around isn't anywhere near as fun as riding around in a circle at really fast speeds (crit racing).</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
Kinda looks a bit like the picture below, probably they're professionals and probably they're not the E Graders that I raced with..</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Things like this can happen, this is called fucking up and not holding your line... learn from your mistakes. The peloton will learn from your mistakes and drop your fucking arse...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mostly they don't end up like that, or at least they didn't when I raced, it was more like perfection, HTC perfection... lead out train, swish hey, *sigh*.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Followed by, "Yeah, woooo hoooooo."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://cdn1.media.cyclingnews.futurecdn.net/2009/07/26/2/pic50871s_600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="http://cdn1.media.cyclingnews.futurecdn.net/2009/07/26/2/pic50871s_600.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And then, "your the best team mate in the world..." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And then... yeah okay, real men can cry to. See that bottom lip quivering? And the sooky eyes?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And then some fried brioche at Hardware Societie (sp? I'm not checking its tooo late and I have a lecture at 8am... ethics at 8am, seriously not cool). Okay, I ended up F7 it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, that's pretty much what happens at a criterium, POMA dropped by and watched me race, I spent too much time on the front and learnt a lesson from that.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Don't.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I also learnt that I need to do more sprint work, other than that the speed of E Grade men is apparently faster than B Grade women, so I'll go join B Grade women next week and hopefully we don't see any of this...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://englishrussia.com/images/tallest_mans_bike/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://englishrussia.com/images/tallest_mans_bike/1.jpg" width="148" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Madgan and I where both massively impressed by the amazing abilitiy of the above cyclist, to begin with the kit is amazing, I'd never seen such impressive Lycra on Beach Road.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I commented to Madgan about the speed of the 7 FOOT TALL man on the massive bicyle and said, "should we chase?"</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Madgan didn't reply, then I looked at the calves of the 7 FOOT TALL man.... Moo</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Wrong picture...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Much better...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Anyway, due to the size of the calves we realised quickly that we actually had no hope of catching the 7 FOOT TALL Russian on the classy LOOK bicycle.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I know you want to look at that all day, a 7 FOOT TALL Russian man on a LOOK bicycles, I couldn't find a picture of the Russian on a LOOK bicycles, I hope the picture above is satisfying. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-25971381262380008182011-01-28T21:39:00.001+11:002011-01-28T21:40:40.435+11:00The Natural Habitat of the $10,000.00 Bicycle. Discuss.<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I was recently asked to discuss the $10,000.00 bicycle. Here are my thoughts. <br />
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There's bikes and then there are bikes... seriously, not all bikes are are made equally. Owners experience envy and upgradities after at least 3 months of purchasing a new bike this common amongst both genders throughout cycling, primarily men though.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Some bikes are used and put to work, Giant and Malvern Star are good examples of bikes that can be put to work and ridden hard for hours after hours, perhaps even years. Depends on your wife really, how long do you think you could ride her before you got bored? <i>Yes I really did just write that and you read it. </i>Same situation with bikes really.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The natural habitat of the $10,000.00 bicycle is a fickle one to say the least, often purchased by a middle aged man in lycra (MAMIL) in the process of a mid-life-crisis, some are found to be younger of course, for example, early-twenties-crisis, late-thirties-crisis-and-I-just-got-divorced-and-sold-my-house-crisis or the classics 40's and scientists are begining to see it in the over 50's. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Waiting for the kids to leave home are we? Its called a boot up the arse, does it matter that they're not 18... Nooooo (Oh he knows who I'm talking about, Mr Shogun of Steel!).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The MAMIL will often purchase a $10,000.00 bicycles as it is now considered the 'new golf', however, it is agreed that cycling is much more exciting than its forefather. In the interest of healthy lives and healthy relationships, the MAMIL concedes that the beer gut ,diabetes, heart disease and liver damage must go, he turns to cycling as it is relatively easy on the knees and you just have to sit there (at the coffee shop).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Any of the MAMILS who are still married to their wives, soon discover that their wives are happy that they have found something to amuse themselves with, the constant questions about where you left your keys was getting on her nerves. Didn't you notice the amont of money being charged to Dan Murphy's each week. Even if it means that the kitchen renovations get put of again, the wife of a cyclist is happy that he is out of the house, as he has no DIY ability what-so-ever... admittedly, however far of topic this is, the consistency of the Wiggle orders is impressive.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Pictured below is the BMC-something-something, with its beautiful carbon fibre frame, perfect lines and Zipp 404's. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As you can see, this is clearly better than the average bicycle and to prove itself so worthwhile, the MAMIL who owns the bicycle will ride no more than 1500m in the morning. Weather of course must be clear with no chance of showers, cloud cover or wind, as the bicycles must be portrayed in perfect light, to distract from the species would be unforgiving and possibly detrimental to future mating options. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The MAMIL will then proceed to sit at the cafe with other MAMILS and their $10,000.00 bicycles and discuss the epic journey that they had. Epic generally consists of Melboure to Black Rock, which is approxiamtely 25km, each rider rides slow enough to ensure that the decals on their bicycles can be seen and as per the Euro Rules; one shall not be seen in any sort of pain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If the MAMIL riding the $10,000.00 bicycle is a proper man, he will concede that this is a once in the life time opportunity for him to own such a lovely piece of carbon and will allow on certain occasions other bicycles to ride with him, Giants are of course the exception, along with Trek and Specialized (no particular reason, I just didn't like the decals this season).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On the other hand, the poseur on the $10,000.00 bicycles could surprise you and be a winner, he could be fast, strong and a good friend. Best not judge a bike by the carbon fibre and the decals, do, however, judge based on calves and sense of style.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Matching kit is paramount. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-47502865143696417802011-01-24T22:16:00.003+11:002011-01-24T22:57:43.415+11:00The Hard Men of Cycling - Cpical, Hannos, Madgan and Russell!<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Playing domestique to a group of men is a little nerving, especially when you hear the words, "Your gonna make someone a really good wife one day." That hadn't been the aim...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
We rode out of Bright with 6:20am group, the sun was barely up and we had taken our bikes back to the end of the peloton. Hannos was excited; his shiny red BMC-something-something gleamed in the early morning light. Picture below is of Hannos with his BMC-something-something that needed a new crankset... the night before. Who knows SRAM Red?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fitting a SRAM Red Crankset... minor-last-minute-mechanical-detail</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Cpical, as always was calm, it was just a ride, it would be fine... pace yourself and you will be okay. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Another of my favorite sayings from Cpical, "no, it will be fine."</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">and</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">"It is okay." or "Yes, it was hard."</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Magdan (below) was looking forward to the ride, sure, his daughters think he was riding in the tour down under, I don't think we'll tell them that it was with a bunch of hacks, professional hacks are even worse.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Madgan was under strict instructions, "no jokes whilst riding uphill..."</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Russell (bellow) had been positive from the get-go and new the time he had to qualify in for some-really-really-long-arsed-Audax-ride-in-Pars-that-would-probably-give-you-saddle-sores thing. As we rolled out to climb Tawonga Gap there was mentions of this mystical metal called steel that almost no longer exists and is only found in places like Brunswick, Fitzroy and St Kilda... its NOT real.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I decided on the way up Tawonga Gap that my day would end at the hotel in Mt Beauty, my mind couldn't see the finish line, I couldn't imagine it and I wasn't ready to push myself through that much pain. I decided that rest was on the cards and I would also be able to organise things for dinner and not be rushed. A much nicer experience for everyone this time around.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I met Steve (below) as I was going up Tawonga Gap, I was in the big ring... um, I didn't look and I couldn't figure out why it hurt so much, my bad. Steve had started his 10th Alpine Classics that day, he's done pretty much every Audax ride you can imagine. Today wasn't going to be the 10th for him, he wasn't well so I went up with him to the top of Tawonga and suggested that he come back to Mt Beauty with me and I would make some toast and tea.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steve... the ring in and newest member!</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Meanwhile the boys (men) had probably been working their arses of up Falls Creek, their enthusiasm has been outstanding, their personalities had been eye opening and a pleasure to experience.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">EVENTUALLY... okay, it wasn't that long, they all arrived back at the hotel.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Madgan's rule had been not to sit down or else he wouldn't get up again, Cpical finally found his competition (if he was in to competition.. which he isn't), in the way of Hannos and that BMC-something-something, Russell's consistency is something that I haven't been able to master yet, perhaps its my youth which holds me back?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
I went about refuelling water bottles and making sure everyone was okay, Russell was first out the door knowing all well and good about the time limits that faced him and if he cooled down before the climb over Tawonga Gap he'd suffer even more up Mt Buffallo, I sent Steve off with Russell in the hopes that he would have some company going up the hill.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I was told stories about the impressive wobble in that BMC-something-something as it descended from the top of Falls Creek; only to hear later that Hannos hadn't taken his wind vest with him for the descent thinking he'd be fine. He froze most of the way down and only heated up about 5km from the bottom of Falls Creek.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
I considered climbing Falls Creek once the boys left but decided that I deserved the break, I filled the bath and spent an hour looking at the mountain before enjoy an hours sleep.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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Cpical updated me on their progress once they had reached Mt Buffalo, its the last climb of the day and its the hottest time of the day. I was happy to receive the text messages telling me that each of the boys had made it to the top. They had all done such a good job and it was only a matter of time before they where home.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Hannos was the first in, followed by Cpical and Madgan, and last but not least Russell... who'd stopped for coke.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Special thanks to Steve for taking the photo of all the current members who could make it, obviously you can see the core team who did the 200km. POMA is also featured in the picture, he completed the raid this time, having proven himself capable the year before.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Russell, Hannos, Cpical, Missy, POMA, and Madgan</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Drinks where had, stories where told of seeing those magical steel demons, 404's battled sticks and survived, whilst the fly that followed Hannos up Mt Buffalo meet its demise as we departed from a little place called Dreamers.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-37294384863465818962011-01-20T11:14:00.002+11:002011-01-20T13:00:09.994+11:00A Note from Mum.<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Right, here's the deal. Its TOO late. Don't think you can train for it now, its all over. Its 3 days away. On Saturday we will be driving approximately 5 hours from Melbourne to Mt Beauty with the anticipation of starting and finishing the Alpine Classics on Sunday 23rd of January 2011.... now this is EPIC.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I've changed my mind over and over again; I was in tears when I spoke to my mum about it. I've been tired for weeks (4 of them), I don't function well on 6 hours sleep let alone sleep that's interrupted by noise every two hours (or a muffin cat).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Mum is really supportive, she's actually amazing and she said I don't have to do it if I don't want to. She said I can go to relax to get away from her and not cycle and that it was totally up to me. She also said that I should ignore the peer pressure from the others that it wouldn't do me any good, she also reminded me that I've had two major crashes in one year and there was probably a third around the corner (thanks mum...). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">She also said, "do you want me to write a note," </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">and then she added, "just tell them to f--- off if there annoying you."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">She keeps it real.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Last night I finally got some sleep, I woke up fresh and I felt good... I got my required 8 hours, I don't know how parents do it. I'm looking after my mum at the moment by cooking dinner and picking her up from work and driving her to work because she can't, and I think taxi's are a waste of money.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The last four weeks have been trying my patience (not that I have any), I didn't get my place at RMIT University for Journalism on Monday which bought everything crashing down by Tuesday. I am now happy with my place at the Australian Catholic University and will stay enrolled there and start on the 21st of February.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Points for the next 3 days - </span></div><ul><li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Stay hydrated - your muscles will thank you.</span></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Scared? Print out the profiles of the ride and stick them to a spare wall at your desk.</span></div></li>
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</div><ul><li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Don't read the crap on the designated facebook group and avoid all communication with members of the team.. discuss anything but the Alpine Classics.</span></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">In case of boredom sell Zipp 404's Clinchers to partially fund trip to the Baltimore in 2012.</span></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Decide on which kit to wear - I suggest your <a href="http://www.tiffanyjane.com.au/Fashion/TiffanyJaneDesigns/StarGazerCollection.aspx">favorite kit</a>, no I don't look as good in it as Tiffany Cromwell does and I don't plan on looking that good in it.</span></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Do NOT forget your cap - as seen <a href="http://rocketfuelstyle.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/hack-pro-custom-cycling-caps/#comments">here</a> once again thanks to Susan for making such a PRO product for such a PRO Team.</span></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Don't talk strategy - there's only one strategy and that's FINISH</strong></span></div></li>
</ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TTd590HlCLI/AAAAAAAABEc/I6yWeyis-Bo/s1600/Mark-Cavendish-and-Mark-R-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TTd590HlCLI/AAAAAAAABEc/I6yWeyis-Bo/s400/Mark-Cavendish-and-Mark-R-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Do read </span><a href="http://www.cyclingtipsblog.com/2011/01/tour-down-under-glossary/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">this</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> post on Cycling Tips - it'll make you laugh.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Russell should read <a href="http://www.cyclingtipsblog.com/2009/11/how-to-dress-pro/">this</a> post.</span></li>
</ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">In the meanwhile....</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TTd9jUkVZ7I/AAAAAAAABEg/n180DMlSqGw/s1600/htfu_stencil1-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" n4="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TTd9jUkVZ7I/AAAAAAAABEg/n180DMlSqGw/s1600/htfu_stencil1-1.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-22245309909359168782011-01-18T21:03:00.003+11:002011-01-18T21:08:15.432+11:00Mt Donna Buang; I dream of her often.<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I think Mt Donna Buang was the first mountain I'd climb, it was either that or the 1:20, I'm not sure... but you know the storey behind it. We discussed it in the previous post.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TTVjNyh-fII/AAAAAAAABEQ/pv0rY1K8ICM/s1600/Paul.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TTVjNyh-fII/AAAAAAAABEQ/pv0rY1K8ICM/s400/Paul.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Madgan and I where there on Sunday, we hadn't left early which was fine, I understand that other people have commitments, that sometimes I'm lucky to be able to just do what I want. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">You go to a mountain to climb and its what we did, I'd never ridden it with a Garmin before, so to know the first 6km - 7km was full of climbing that involved 8% to 15% gave me a shock.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">First time back to Mt Donna Buang in 1 year and 16 days, the climb had never hurt so much, the heat was horrid and my calves where cramping and my feet where hot... new shoes, new saddle; makes an interesting mix for the first day back up a mountain.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The first time I climbed Mt Donna Buang the time was 2hours and 1minute, it sticks in my head because Gunlock beat me by a minute... no more and no less.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Mt Donna Buang for the uninitiated is 16km and an average of <a href="http://www.cyclingprofiles.com.au/HTM/MelClimbs/MC_DB.htm">6.2%</a>.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TTVkBrcBOhI/AAAAAAAABEU/OxA5zCii0ds/s1600/Yarra.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TTVkBrcBOhI/AAAAAAAABEU/OxA5zCii0ds/s400/Yarra.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Madgan climbed well, he was worried, he's gonna kick it at the Alpine Classics... it'll be good training for the cycle leg of all those Tri's he does... right?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I must count him as one of the best I've ever climbed with, Madgan and Pical take the cake, they are gentleman and my friends. We are so lucky to have them on this team, I'm so lucky to have the both of them...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Just in case you thought I was lying... there's no proof, I was there and so was Madgan, my calves still hurt and the summit is burnt into my eyes, I know where it is ,I know where I crashed... I know that Mountain and I will get my 1 hours 15 minute time back this year.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I'll train all winter. Thanks Assos.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-88021520399750390672011-01-14T10:24:00.001+11:002011-01-14T10:24:45.368+11:00French, Swiss... who cares! Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cpical is by far one of my favorite people to go riding with and we've had a lot of cool rides together, mostly to Kinglake and then there was that inaugural trip to Mt Donna Buang.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I think the trip to Mt Donna Buang was one of the first trips we ever did with Cpical, we met him because of </span><a href="http://www.bicycles.net.au/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">www.bicycles.net.au</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and we've pretty much been friends ever since. Wait. We first met Cpical at a forum ride that I had organised, he was waiting for his bike to arrive from Europe and was riding an old steel frame (and he was still better).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TS-IbdcHj-I/AAAAAAAABEM/q71v8LKod5o/s1600/PICAL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="150" n4="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TS-IbdcHj-I/AAAAAAAABEM/q71v8LKod5o/s200/PICAL.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The trip to Mt Donnna Buang was interesting, me, Elmo, Gunlock and Pical... I think that was it, 3 bikes on the rack and one in the boot, Pical spent a lot of time borrowing one of Elmo's Specialized bikes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That's Pical there on the right, web cam... very cool, way to go with the techno bro.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Poor Gunlock, lets just call him Gun, he rides an Oppy, and we really took the piss out of him, it isn't unusual for us to take the piss out of people. Sure, it may feel hurtful but do keep in mind that when we also take the piss out of ourselves as though it where an Olympic Sport... and yes, we are the best.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pical doesn't seem to care how fast he rides or where he rides, the important thing for him is that he rides his bike. On almost all of our adventures he's always come back down the hill to pick the last of us (me) up and climb with the last person to the top at that persons speed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He's also a silent achiever, I've seen Andrew try and beat PIcal many times on our Kinglake rides... its a recipe for failure, I'm considering putting cement in Pical's water bottles... he's the strong silent type and he will be joining us next weekend at the Alpine Classics aka oh-my-god-Pical-is-the-only-one-who-trained-and-the-rest-of-us-will-suck-not-that-that-any-different-to-usual.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anyway whilst Pical is in Australia, I have declared that he is Australian!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-60246041263379148302011-01-10T16:02:00.006+11:002011-01-10T16:10:00.936+11:00Ultra marathon running... running?<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Ultra marathon running for most cyclists is running for a tram, train or bus and in most cases its because your bikes out of commission due to a vehicle of some sort; or possibly your soft like marsh mellow.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">POMA and I took on the challenge, we were peer pressured into a challenge (by me), I never actually expected POMA to say... "Okay." About ten minutes later I received an email from Ultra Marathon buddy Justin Scholz (Wangaratta local) to say that POMA has entered. Oh my god.. I actually had to follow through and enter, bugger.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now, I had said that POMA could do the 5km cause he's like... way older than me and I'd do the 10km cause I'm young and more awesome.. right? Um, wrong, in so many different ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">*Sook Alert*</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">POMA hadn't trained and I had made a lame attempt at training. Spent more time sooking over not having a bike actually, don't forget before Christmas I'd been hit buy a car and then got a cold. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">More importantly we started our incredibly long car trip to Wangaratta at 5:30am, we arrived tired and stiff, and craving coffee, as our only choices seemed to be McDonalds and Subway, we by-passed the caffeine and chose juice instead.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Saw Justin at the start line and his face lit up and yelled, "10km Missy?" I frowned and shook my head, "nah, just 5km today."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Little did I know how much trouble I'd cause...</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TSqSxDagpRI/AAAAAAAABEI/pwgKmpfucjc/s1600/photo%255B2%255D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TSqSxDagpRI/AAAAAAAABEI/pwgKmpfucjc/s400/photo%255B2%255D.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Before we new it the 10km runners where at the start line, without me, and ready to go. Sharon Scholz, ultra marathon runner/awesome/inspiring/champion, got them started yelling, "Ready, Set, Go."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Her website is </span><a href="http://www.sharonscholz.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://www.sharonscholz.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, in 2010 Sharon went all out and broke a heap of records and I've listed them below, just in case you weren't sure what ultra marathon running was... just in case you thought riding 200km was impressive... here's a reality check.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">6th outright 24 hour World Championships (224.885km) </span></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Winner Australian Championships 48 hour race + new record (333.026km)</span></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Winner Coburg 6 hour Track event (71.927km) </span></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Winner 50km Mansfield to Mount Buller race</span></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Winner 240km Coast to Kosciuszko race + new record (32:14:28)</span></div></li>
</ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">POMA and I've ridden a lot of mountains together and always agree to go at our own pace and thats what we did, with the agreement to meet at the finish line.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To keep it simple and to save myself any embarasment I'm just going to state the facts, POMA was across the line before I'd even made it to the 3.5km mark, I found some other girls to talk to on the way and that was okay with me.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I made sure I ran passed all the photographers, because I couldn't possibly let Justin see me walking the course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sharon's goal had been to get us off the couch that morning and about 200+ people had come to join the party, most of the online entries had been from out of town. Even though I don't really like running and I prefer my bike, I'll be continuing the commitment to fit in a run at least twice a week this year, I'd like to improve on my 5km time... which although awesome, could use some improvement.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I think POMA could totally get a prize in the veteran category, I have no chance in the elite women's, a girl had won it in 21:43, I think I could have a go at getting a prize in the veterans category... even then... its hard work this running business.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'll probably never run further than a marathon (bucket list... dumb idea), its nice to know that riding 200km isn't the dumbest idea someone has ever come up with... ultra marathon certainly takes the cake when it comes to extreme-personal-oh-my-god-you-did-what moments?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Alpine Classics, what mountain.... </span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-47180231431847171452011-01-07T09:41:00.000+11:002011-01-07T09:41:49.745+11:00"Excuses don't get you up a hill." - Russell Noble (Psike)<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I was totally hiding his name but realised, hey, what's the point? He's got twitter... the WHOLE world knows who he is. Anyway dropping the cloak and dagger conversation. I've got a major problem.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I need a whole lot of HTFU and positive thinking to get through the next two weeks (16 days, but, whose counting?) to make it to the Alpine Classics; actually start it and finish it. Normally for a little bit of motivation I would put my Britney Spears sound track and listen to Stronger (she sung that.. right?). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Today its going to take more than Britney to get me up those hills I'll be taking Lady GaGa though, thats for sure.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Motivation play is now in place, points to remember are.</strong></span></div><ul><li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I've told everyone I will do it - Failure is not an option</span></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Its ONLY 200km</span></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'll be doing the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Murray to Moyne to raise funds for a medically based charity and this is good training</span></div></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Shit that Russell said that actually makes sense...</span></strong></div><ul><li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"It'll hurt and you're gonna love it." Russell Noble (Psike)</span></div></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He's got a point, no matter how many times I say I'm gonna stop climbing mountains and work on the flat stuff, I keep climbing mountains, I do enjoy the pain of climbing, its not something I dislike.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We will be going past our hotel on the way back down Falls Creek as we head towards Tawonga Gap, so it is an opportunity to change anything that I'm not comfortable with and by then we'll have two climbs down with only two remaining (Tawonga Gap and Buffalo).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Goal setting is really important, but its even harder when the goal starts to scare you, what if I don't feel my best on the day, am I allowed to cry? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Russell did say that he was looking forward to a ride that wasn't going to be to fueled with testosterone, I'm happy about that and I owe it to Hannos, Psike, Cpical and Madgan to follow through. I pushed them into doing it, so to pull out now wouldn't be cool.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So I'm in, I'll cut all fat (as much as possible) in my diet for the next 9 days, I'll carb load in the final five days and taper in the final 5 days... this is going to be a sufferfest, but, we'll have some good times on the way.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I've been discussing with Champ all morning about my choices for this ride, he's said, don't do it. But I do sort of like doing things when he's told me not to, his reasons are...</span></div><ul><li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">neck and shoulder aren't 100%</span></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">its a REALLY long way</span></div></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">So in true Missy style, I'm going to ignore Champ and do what Russell has said to do, so to start with I'll be quitting with the negative jibber jabber and keeping it positive.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-12501511854224545652011-01-05T15:24:00.001+11:002011-01-06T09:32:26.291+11:00Psike - Steel is real... *insert rolling eyes smilie*<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In recent days there has been a lot of trash talk on my facebook page regarding the choices of new bikes and what to buy; especially in the lead up to the Alpine Classics. There's a lot of bling on the market and no doubt we all have different tastes, I just wanted to start out by saying, "Steel <strong>isn't</strong> real."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Due to the large amounts of trash talk, I thought it about time that I introduce Psike, he's from Canberra, the nations capital, so its fair to say in all honesty that he knows... nothing, right? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Not entirely, he does know something about HTFU though, it would take a while to mention all the Audax rides that he has done, and there has been a few, so I'm not gonna bother, it would probably also make me feel slow and sucky (not far from the truth). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Psike has thoroughly suggested that I HTFU a little bit and stop sooking that I haven't be able to ride because I got hit by a car and wrote of my bike and therefor haven't been able to train and did I mention that my mother broke her ankle and I'm looking after her? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Breath.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">However, Hannos, just got a new bike, a 2010 BMC SLC01 and to top it off, he had some beautiful Zipp 404 Clinchers to make it hotter and sexier. Which lets face it, 404's are hot; sure those who don't have them say they're too heavy and not to mention the word that they're over priced... <span style="font-size: x-small;">I don't need a man, I just need a new bike every six months and some 404's, perhaps an upgrade to Di2 when I graduate from University in a million years and a pink helmet.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I'm about to take possession of a 2011 Felt AR4, its got full Ultegra, which is what I'm happy with, I was tossing up between the Felt and the 2011 Cannondale SuperSix, but I didn't want the Tecktro breaks and the FSA Cranks that came on the 'Dale. I've heard the 2011 Felt AR3 (SRAM) is stiff and fast; looking forward to having carbon between my legs again. I've been off the bike since the 14th of December. My new 404 clincher shouldn't be far away, and I'll be the proud owner of a very nice looking bike, lickable even... don't ask.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">As you can see there's a lot of hormones and carbon floating through facebook, twitter and the odd internet forum (helmets rule), I think ultimately we're living out our fantasy's on our bikes and this seems to include lots and lots of riding (take it as you choose). Psike has decided to take the piss out of our carbon bling and sexy wheels, jealous is a green eyed monster.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I really can't take the piss out of him too much cause I have a feeling that he'll be providing a lot of the motivation to get me and Hannos through the Alpine Classics, even with our carbon and 404's we're actuall riding at the speed of snails. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Psike's position in this team was thoroughly discussed amongst the team and it went something like this.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;">I said, "this dude Psike from the forums is gonna come to and he's done lots of Audax rides and is awesome!" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;">Hannos said, "who?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;">Cpical said, "okay."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Madgan said, "sure... what are the sleeping arrangements?"</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That's how careful our consideration is when it comes to choosing team members, ultimately I seem to have the final say, I'm not sure why, could be because of my amazing influence on others or my hard work and determination.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Psike has said that he doesn't care how long it takes as long as he's in within the time limit, so that puts us at a maximum of about 13 hours, worst case scenario.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As long as there is a bottle of Patricia (Brown Brothers) at the Penthouse at the end of the day, I'm easy. I'll find a picture of Psike later in his hat, I'll steal something from facebook and deface it as much as possible.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Only about two weeks until we all attempt to kill ourselves and I just read recently that that Bling kid does about 1000km a week... </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-87353561489443247062010-12-30T21:52:00.000+11:002010-12-30T21:52:01.525+11:00Hannos - The first sucker to join from NSW<div style="text-align: justify;">Hannos<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> and I know each other pretty well, we email each other almost daily, I complain and he listens diligently and tells me that my ideas are awesome, hence the reason for this cycling team... a good idea according to </span>Hannos<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">. I'm sure I have an email around here that backs up that last statement, I will provide it if required. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TRxg3PHiT1I/AAAAAAAABDg/0XuuRUJliKQ/s1600/IMAG0050.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TRxg3PHiT1I/AAAAAAAABDg/0XuuRUJliKQ/s320/IMAG0050.jpg" width="191" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This is Hannos, to the right, he says and I quote, "I don't take very good self portraits."</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I have to be honest, I bullied the man into signing up for the Alpine Classics, told him it would be great fun, a piece of cake, there is ONLY 4 climbs.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Hannos has never done 200km not even on the flat, so to add some mountains into it could be a whole different effect; Hannos also runs and swims so his overall fitness is going to be better than mine.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The big thing and big issue at the moment is that I got hit by a car before Christmas and wrote of a bike, I'm waiting on a replacement and some money from an insurance company, so until then I'm swimming and running and I'm trying to eat better.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Hannos has told me to HTFU (Harden The F*ck Up) and I'm going to HTFU, I don't want to let them down. It was my encouragement that got us all here and my encouragement that got people who I really don't know (face to face) to come to Bright and ride together as a team that would always wait at the top of every mountain; climb at your own pace.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hannos<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> is essential to this team and its the team that will get a few of us whose health and ability actually sucks at the moment.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-71580906769128535692010-12-24T10:58:00.002+11:002010-12-24T11:21:25.265+11:00POMA - Prisoner of Missy's Adventures<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Once upon a time, I came up with a stupid idea, one of those moments you look back on and say, "it seemed like a good idea at the time."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sure, it was partially a good idea because I got to meet POMA. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The first member I'd like to introduce is POMA, POMA gets the honour of being the first because he is in fact one of the originals, he did the </span><a href="http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Death-by-Missyadventure"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Death by Missy Adventure</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> (DBMA) on Melbourne Cup Day back in 2009, that was the hardest ride I'd ever done, we all look back on it now and know that we could do it rather easily. We've gotten better, we're stronger riders and we have more mental strength than we did when we started this ride.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We pulled out of the Kelly Country Classic at the 130km mark and went to a cafe and proteined it up, we climbed the magnificent Mt Hotham on the same day, he's a million years older than me and rides faster uphill... go figure. POMA and I have had many adventures together, we've ridden Don and Donna on Saturdays and attempted Kinglake on the Sunday. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">POMA is the sort of bloke who says, "almost there, only a couple more hills to go." Make no mistake, when he says this you are more likely than not, still going to be 40km from home and realistically you hit the wall 20km ago and the only reason you keep going is because you don't actually know how to stop.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TRPf9b6_EvI/AAAAAAAABDc/oBib1lxEtd8/s1600/POMA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" n4="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TRPf9b6_EvI/AAAAAAAABDc/oBib1lxEtd8/s320/POMA.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I've since then learnt when to pull out of a ride and when to keep going, but that being said, POMA featured in this picture (showing his talent for photography) is probably one of the awesomest people I've ever ridden with.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I was going to cover up part of his face in this picture, but realised that its such a bad photo hardly anyone will recognise him anyway.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Older people tend to be much more patient about getting to the end, consequently POMA is going to do one of the Audax Oppy's, where he has to ride about 400km in 24 hours... I was invited and promptly said, "No." </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I'm happy to play support for him and his team of sick sick people who think that riding 400km is 24 hours is fun, the worst thing is, I think they will totally kick butt and be really awesome!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Worst thing about being POMA is that one day I'm gonna come up with another 'bad' idea and he's gonna say, "sure, I'm in." Then he has to listen to me complain for the last 50km.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951839112790498889.post-79562459726842154242010-12-23T09:45:00.003+11:002010-12-23T10:19:51.860+11:00The First Cap<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The idea came about when I decided that I wanted something to commemorate the 2011 Alpine Classics team that I had put together. I wanted something that was inexpensive that we could all afford and with the cost of good quality Lycra these days being on par with a good pair of Italian shoes I thought caps would be the go.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The designer is Susan from </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rocketfuel.net.au/">http://www.rocketfuel.net.au/</a></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, I gave her my ideas and she bought them to life</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TRJ6iRTjaII/AAAAAAAABDU/SG-5b9VPP-s/s1600/photo%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" n4="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rPwX_VzkCNI/TRJ6iRTjaII/AAAAAAAABDU/SG-5b9VPP-s/s1600/photo%255B1%255D.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The cap has the name of our team on the side HackPRO Cycling Team and our sponsor, Clenbuterol and Spanish Beef, big thanks to Clenbuterol and the Spanish Beef Industry for keeping us going.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On the right hand side we have 2011, to commemorate the ride in 2011.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">All the caps have each persons name underneath the brim, as you can see from this picture my name is Missy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I look forward to introducing you to the members of the team as we have our first rides together, most people are going to stay anonymous and use different names, we are after all just a bunch of Professional Hack who like riding... some of them also like swimming and running.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The only person I have so far promised not to take the piss out of is Madgan, he promised to stop kicking my arse on Beach Road if I didn't take the piss out of him.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Champ, well, we discussed his name last night on the phone, he'd been telling me how he met Richie Porte in Launceston the other night and he said he wanted to be called Bear, after that dude with the TV show. He also mentioned that he once had a Care Bear called Champ, so instead of totally humiliating him with the name Care Bear, I had considered it, but I do value our friendship so I'll call him Champ.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I posted all the caps out yesterday at lunchtime, everyone should recieve them today and I look forward to hearing some feedback.... Oooooo red caps! </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0