More training tips from Bubba

[SadieKate]

Bubba kindly offered up another training tip this evening for Amici Veloci or anyone:

Bubba’s continuing cycling tips:

ITS ALL ABOUT ATTITUDE

Bicycling’s first poet laureate clearly captured this concept…

“ ‘Over the mountains of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,’
The shade replied-
‘If you seek for Eldorado!’ “

(Edgar Allan Poe, 1849)

[yellow]

Hey! Whoa! Bubba told me he'd be able to quote Shakespeare on demand if he quit watching TV...is he doing a test run with Poe?

Even though we've been TV-less for going on 13 years, I still can't quote jack-diddley. (OK, we do have a TV and DVD player, but no reception and we've had the same 3 Netflix movies for about 2 months now...)

[SadieKate]

Even though we've been TV-less for going on 13 years, I still can't quote jack-diddley. (OK, we do have a TV and DVD player, but no reception and we've had the same 3 Netflix movies for about 2 months now...)

I was a english lit major and can't quote jack-diddley, so I'm on your team. However, I can sing extended snippets of Gilbert and Sullivan. I have also been known to beat Petunia up the hill by making her laugh at my renditions of the New Christy Minstrels. My secret weapon -- make 'em laugh and they can't get enough oxygen to climb.

[MomOnBike]

I'm known to break out into song.

"I was headin' down the canyon
Doin' 90 miles an ho-ur
When the chain on my bi-cy-le broke..."
(Durn it, that's all there is to that one)

Usually my companions are left gape-mouthed at my songs. I blame my mother for teaching them to me.

Shakespeare? Surely you jest.

Mom(who knew exactly which canyon it was when she was a little girl)OnBike

[SadieKate]

It's not Billy Wigglestick but it is a Bubba original. I should probably post this under the thread about the wonderful things our hubbies do. I have to go find a tissue now.

Whose name is this, whose face is this
that keeps my heart afire,
Why...'tis my sweet patootie
upon her bike fat tyre.

Matilda names this noble steed,
a cycle for all terrain,
Its chain a hum, its tyres a buzz,
it sings a sweet refrain.

To mountain top, thru dale and glen,
my one true love it brings
And home again to my open arms
comes my Sarah on bicycle wings.

[Veronica]

Awww... you have a real gem Sarah.

V.

[SadieKate]

Thanks, V. We're two awfully lucky girls.

SK