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I discovered another horrifying problem: we don't have the DVDs for those two movies. Popped off an Amazon order and they should be here early next week. The boys will be on their own as I will be in Springfield, MO for the week. Since Andrew can pretty much hold his own with Bubba for movie quotes, I dread to think what's going to happen when I get back.
Brenda Vacarro as the sword narrowly misses her chest clasped in her hands, "Thank God for small favors!"
Not fair kids..I can't come to the thread drift reunion...I'm kind of far away...
Do you ladies use MSN messenger?? If so, how about we meet up one weekend & have a chat???
I did a nice 45km ride tonight...The homemade lights aren't bad actually...I still want the double shots but will have to do some ebaying i think..
If you see any in your travels on ebay..let me know....They have them at our lbs but they''re $400!!!!
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ps-I tink i found my hunka hunka burnin love drive...I dunno where it was hiding for all this time though....
I have a 42" plasma screen TV....Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
Isn't this the best excuse for coming to the U.S. for a visit???Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
oh my, and they say size doesn't matter ;)
ok, party at fishdocs, who has the chocolate?
Fish....If the reunion was in california/washington/idaho/etc... i may consider it...We'd like to visit friends/family/mtn biking in Canada next year & would be on the west coast....
Tis possible kids
Oh hey knotted...i could catch up with you as i have rellies on bainbridge island....
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This is so cool! I am looking forward to the pics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
CC, I could catch up with you and Knotted in the PNW. I have an ex (who I'm friends with) on Bainbridge Isl.
But I still want TE movie night at Fishdocs hugegigantinormous plasma TV :D We can have chocolate and beer and ogle Nancis medals. Or how 'bout on the 18th, isn't there some TdF mountain stage then?
Fishdoc, fire up the barbie we're heading over.
The barbie is hot. Maybe MP can supply the chocolate. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
And the Tour is pretty sweet on that big 'ol screen.
ditto. what she said - except for the dog pooping part. he's only done that once.Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
love you guys!
off to WATCH the death ride. there will be a lot to catch up when I return, I am sure.
I just lost it on the "how slow" thread. They're still going at it and the inflammatory poster just repeated herself again. I couldn't take it anymore and had to respond. I should delete it. I'm fast approaching the PMS zone and I just sat through a hideously boring 2 HOUR seminar! I'm hungry, thirsty, and want to be home riding - it's gorgeous here today!
We NEED to have movie night! Aargh! Or at least the beer! Perhaps an appletini would be tasty this evening...
oh dear, I just found the HSAI thread.
I need to go off and pick up Duck on Wheels rental so we can ride slowly tomorrow. Oh the shame of it all.
We're a diverse international board of women (?) and I hope it stays that way. I think her (?) 1st language is not English? Possible that she (?) does not get the nuances of what she says.
Maybe we should talk about Diva cups, perimenopause, hot flashes and spotting, how to balance training and breast feeding and whether or not you should use those pump devices ....in How Slow am I to find out.
OK - so I did go back and look when I saw Trek had posted - nice post - darlin'! You've ended my work day with a laugh - thank you :) Chocolate's on me! Just bring the movie :)
Uh, I just lost it too! I told myself after yesterday's post that I wouldn't look any more, but the comment about the (supposed) 35mph speed in the TDF (on top of the whole "you're slow" implication just blew my mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
Ah, maybe it's a good thing I'm going away for the weekend and I won't have access to a computer!
--- Denise
I need that poem about giving me the strength to be patient or whatever (and I'm not even religious).
So hard to keep my mouth shut, but it is just an argument now with an irrational, illogical and stubborn personality. I refuse to beat my head against an arrogant stone wall.
Fish, I thought your post in the HSAI thread was fine. I am glad you didn't erase it. Trek's was a classic, though! It is amazing how some people don't get a clue, even with so many others telling them otherwise.
Trek 420- She got straight As thank you very much!!! :-)
Geez, Caligurl went wild!!!!!!!!
BTW- I've ridden at an >18mph average for 80 miles, including taking many pulls, at the beginning of the 400k brevet- and my ITB blew out at some point after lunch :-( Until the knee pain, it was really exciting.
And at TOSRV on the second day I rode in a huge peloton averaging 22-24 effortlessly for many, many miles but eventually got dropped on my nemesis, a hill. And if the peloton is traveling that fast- a dropped rider has very little chance of catching up alone.
So I'm not _always_ as slow as my comfortable pace.
But something I don't think certain people take into consideration is- brevets aren't a race, but there are many time cut-offs during the day. So the rider has to go as fast as they can to bank time, which may be needed later for mechanicals, sleeping, a slower pace due to an injury- whatever, but they are betting on a pace that won't leave them unable to continue.
Only the very elite riders can go out at a race pace and keep it up for the entire event.
Many people start out fast and drop from injury or nutritional/hydration/overheating/electrolyte issues.
Very few just aren't fast enough because of their average speed.
I love how we go over there and post and then come here to vent.
Uh Nanci - did you post that on the HSAI thread? It would seem relevant...
Cali seems to have calmed down a bit. I thought she was going to blow a gasket there for a minute.
Hopefully the HSAI thread will settle down. I'm seriously not posting in it again...unless we start talking about irrelevant topics such as margaritas again. :)
Oh thank gawd, I thought you were going to quote Knotted and say you pooped on the floor when you were anxious..........Quote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
Nanci "Trek 420- She got straight As thank you very much!!! :-)"
you're welcome, not bad considering no Phd eh? ::::Trek takes bows left and right "no really, you're too kind. Just send chocolate to my agent"::::
"BTW- I've ridden at an >18mph average for 80 miles..."
Uh, Nanci, you don't have to explain anything or apologize for speed...ever. You do Brevets, we're slack jawed in awe at least I am. And we so get the cut-off time speed thing.
And if HSAI gets too stressfull for us we'll just find a way to drift the thread to the-subject-we-don't-talk-about and close it :p Though I still think we should switch to Diva Cup, what to do with afterbirth, hotflashes...there.
I'm back from Summit with a Gary Fisher Tassahara for Duck on Wheels to ride tomorrow.
Hmmmm, surprisingly light. Must...stop....wanting...mtb.
ha...ha...ha...ha...ha... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
I thought Cali was great!
No, I'm not posting over there any more unless it's a drift. I like people to think I'm slow. I like being slow. It's not a race UNLESS IT'S A RACE.
I was at a stop light on the way home. A big peloton of Cattle Egrets flew over, in a V formation. Then came a small group of stragglers, in a ragged V, still in sight of the peloton. Then, after a long time, a single bird. I wonder if he could even see the others. I wonder if he was trying desperately to catch up, or if he was going at his own pace.
The thing about Centurys and Doubles, compared to 200ks and 300ks and 400ks (brevets) is Centurys and Doubles are supported. You have SAG stops with yummy foods and drinks. You have roaming mechanical support. You have arrows painted on the ground. You might be riding with 2000 other people. In a brevet, you stop at convenience stores. It is against the rules to get assistance outside the Controls. If you have a mechanical, there is no SAG vehicle. You get a sheet of paper, and are responsible for following the directions. A huge ride might see 40-50 riders. An average ride has 20-30. On a Century, if you don't feel like stopping at a SAG, if you are carrying enough on your own, you don't have to. In a brevet, you HAVE TO stop at roughly 30 mile intervals, park your bike, dig out your brevet card, go in the store, have the clerk sign and stamp it.
I would like to nominate chicken chow mein as the most perfect pre-cycling food.
The wine of the evening will be Bogle Petite Sirah. In recent years the Bogle Petite Sirah has collected many accolades including 10 gold medals in the last 3 years, "Best Buy" 4 years in a row by Wine Spectator magazine and also voted "Top 100 Best Buys of 2005" by Wine Enthusiast magazine.
And I got it on sale!!
I love looking at my medals. What is vermillion?
I'm wondering which Terry Zero is more like my Vitesse, the X or the Y. I like skinny seat and long narrow nose. I need to measure Vitesse. I am curious to see how the Balckwell Flow feels tomorrow, when the girlie bits are good as new, as opposed to last Sunday after the 140 mile ride Saturday.
I'm thinking I need a new seat post to facilitate saddle switching, probably aluminum, because then I won't be breaking the rule about not mounting a rack on a carbon post, but am not sure what to get. I have a Thomson on my MTB, which I really like, but the adjustment is pretty fiddly.
What do you guys think is the difference, in feel, between aluminium, carbon and titanium??
Can we pleasssssssse stay away from afterbirth talk. For some reason the whole eating the placenta thing really grosses me out. That surely would be more pleasant that people telling us we're slow, though!
And yes Nanci - I agree with Trek. You absolutely do not ever never ever need to justify anything to us! Lordy woman - you ride longer in one ride than I do over the whole month, or multiple months sometimes! And you've accomplished that ability in only one year of real road riding. I'm just blown away by that!
Someday I'll get to do a long ride that doesn't involve endless 5 mile loops. The road crews are currently putting humungo chunks of gravel down where I could potentially ride out of town (now that the nasty dog is gone). They're "resurfacing" the road. I'm thinking that Serenity isn't going to like that much. So alas, my 5mile loop it is. It's better than nothing, right? Just think of how strong my legs will be from all of those start/stops at stop signs. ;)
Nanci - I have no idea on the seatpost question, but if you need me to take any measurements on the Zero X, let me know.
What's a good quick food to eat in the early morning before a relatively short ride (30-35 miles)? Chicken chow mein, while good, may not work at 6am...I've been feeling like I'm just dragging lately. I think I'm not eating enough to keep up with my rides/runs. I'm going to pay close attention to what I eat this week and see how many calories I'm taking in. I really think that's why I've been feeling sick on/off for the past month or so.
Cali did great - she definitely got her point across!
I eat CCM at 6AM...Have to plan ahead, though!!
Measured saddles:
Vitesse: 10.5 x 6"
Zero X: 10.6 x 6"
Zero Y: 10.9 x 5.5"
Can't find Blackwell Flow on line, and don't want to go out to the shed AGAIN.
I meant to tell you, when my daughter Kelly was born, the afterbirth came out (why don't they tell you that's like a second childbirth???) and they put it in a stainless steel bowl for later inspection. And promptly dropped it with a horrendous (((((((CLANG)))))))). Kind of funny.
Nanci, I'd suggest a 2nd seatpost that you just leave attached to the 2nd saddle and pull the whole contraption when you want to switch saddles. Then, your finely tuned angles, setback and height don't change each time. Just mark the height with some tape, pull, and shove in the other post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
Ritchey makes some really nice quality aluminum seatposts. The new Specialized Pave has a great clamp on it but it is carbon. You might see if they make an aluminum version. The head has infinite adjustment points.
I personally like ti rails in my saddles. I can feel the rails flex on hard bumps.
I don't poop on the floor even under conditions of extreme anxiety, but I have to otherwise second Knotted's comment. You Thread Drift guys are a very cool bunch. Thanks for all your HSAI postings. I kept trying to figure out something to say after my first early post, but couldn't seem to edit out insults for the provocative poster, so didn't post again. I do think she understands quite well what she is saying and its impact.
Vermillion is a fabulous, dramatic shade of red fit for royalty. Congrats, Nanci. And your little bird, too.
SadieKate, that was exactly my idea!!
I always thought ti rails were weight-related- I never thought of it as a suspension feature! Cool! (Vitesse has ti rails, Flow does not.) I don't think.
I feel like I just learned something major.
Go do my thing in the burk burk thread up in open right now!! Please.
Just don't poop on the floor in excitement.
I'm going to go get Buttercup so she can wet her shell on my behalf!!
Ooo! That's my bike that got stolen! It's a good bike, or at least the one I had was. Even the seat was good from what I remember....if only it could be found again....Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
Finally, word from BF who is on vacation back home up north, the first missive since a short "I miss you" e-mail on Tuesday. Does he ask am I ok? No. Does he say he misses me? No. Does he ask about Cracker Chicken??? Yes... :-) He is glad all pets are accounted for and doing well.
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I swear it's my last one.
that's all we ask here at Thread Drift. We have very, very low standards.Quote:
Originally Posted by SadieKate
May I add what I hope will be the final word about placentas? Stop talking about them! :eek: Sheesh. I actually have a great deal of respect for the placenta as an organ, and if you want a little educational talk, I'll be happy to comply. :rolleyes: But only fishdr has mentioned placentophagy (repeatedly), and it grosses me out too! Since I have to/get to work with them all the time, stop talking about this bizarre practice! It's cannibalism, as far as I'm concerned! Harumph. Nuff said? Yes.
Re: HSAI: Por El Amor De Dios. and that's all I have to say.
not really, of course. I always have more to say. Frankly, that thread is so BORING that I only read the amusing retorts from my TD friends. I'm not even reading those anymore, unless of course, y'all talk about them here, and then I'll scoot over to see what you said. But please, people, can we let it drop? Do I need to start a Peter Reid thread on Open forum to distract people? Hey, there's a thought....:p
So this time it was only my green pepper that I spit out from laughing.
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Oh! I get it! :rolleyes: Took me awhile. Yeah. Sigh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
When the cougar was venting its spleen through my speakers, Ariel, the 17 year old grey fluffy beauty cat that honors me with her presence walked slowly toward me, with her ears flattened back. She stood next to my chair and I petted her. When the cougar stopped, she walked away. :confused:
Nanci, I just hope he loves you up when he gets home. L.
Salsa, when you laugh, it makes me laugh!!
I'm glad I live in the country and all, where people can do whatever they want, but I am SOFA KING sick of gunshots EVERY evening when I am out trying to enjoy the peace and quiet and birdsong. Third night in a row.