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  1. #1
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    Yellow IS famous!!

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    Today, I completed my first century! It was called ULCER (for Utah Lake Century Epic Ride). 108.44 miles in all. It took me just under 6 and a half hours. Between me and my friend, we had FIVE flats--all on the back tires! Luckily there were plenty of helpful guys around who could execute speedy tire changes.
    Somewhere between flat 4 and 5, this guy pulls up next to me and asks if I'm Yellow from BJ. I was dutifully wearing my new AV jersey, so I guess that's how he recogizes Yellow. I guess I was too amazed to ask who HE was.
    Anyway, luckily he had come along because my friend and I had already burned through all of our tubes and CO2. BJ man happens to work for a LBS (Bingham), and was carrying a backpack full of tubes and a foot pump. So handy to have such a guy around when you need him, as we soon had yet another flat.
    Yellow, did you make it down here for this ride today? I kept my eye out for you, but never did spot you.
    If you can read this, take a pull.

  2. #2
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    Congratulations on your Century. LOL - about Yellow thats so funny.
    The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
    Amelia Earhart

    2005 Trek 5000 road/Avocet 02 40W
    2006 Colnago C50 road/SSM Atola
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  3. #3
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    Congrats on your first century (PLUS) today, AuntieK!

  4. #4
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    sorry, but I read the phrase, "BJ guy" and my mind goes straight to the gutter.


    that is cool that yellow is such a rock star. but we knew that, right?
    Brina

    "Truth goes through three stages: first it is ridiculed; then violently opposed; finally, it’s accepted as being self-evident." Schopenhauer

  5. #5
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    AK, see I KNEW you could do it. And it sounds like you got lots of practice changing flats. How many of them were rear wheel?

    I suspect the guy was jentron. I think he works at the Binghams up north (to me, anything north of north Salt Lake is "up north"; I can't keep all those towns straight). Kris (a guy) from Orem is from the utahmountainbiking.com board, so I doubt it was him. I can't think of anyone else that might know me. Unless it was xray, my apparent rival on BJ.

    No, I didn't make it. Hubby got home from Oregon late and we slept in, jacuzzi-ed, ate breakfast, and walked downtown. I rode later with a gentleman that rides City Creek multiple times in one day. He's doing Desperado next week so I was grilling him for information.

  6. #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by AuntieK
    Today, I completed my first century! It was called ULCER (for Utah Lake Century Epic Ride). 108.44 miles in all. It took me just under 6 and a half hours. Between me and my friend, we had FIVE flats--all on the back tires! Luckily there were plenty of helpful guys around who could execute speedy tire changes.
    Somewhere between flat 4 and 5, this guy pulls up next to me and asks if I'm Yellow from BJ. I was dutifully wearing my new AV jersey, so I guess that's how he recogizes Yellow. I guess I was too amazed to ask who HE was.
    Anyway, luckily he had come along because my friend and I had already burned through all of our tubes and CO2. BJ man happens to work for a LBS (Bingham), and was carrying a backpack full of tubes and a foot pump. So handy to have such a guy around when you need him, as we soon had yet another flat.
    Yellow, did you make it down here for this ride today? I kept my eye out for you, but never did spot you.


    Great Job Auntie K!!!!! Congrats on your first Century

    That's too funny about Yellow!

    Tracy

  7. #7
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    Whooo Hooo! Congratulations on your first Century!!!!
    Jennifer

    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    -Mahatma Gandhi

    "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
    -Aristotle

 

 

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