Velominatus: starclimber
Order: Level 1 Velominatus
Location: Delta BC
Coming soon, but not soon enough. There's some humour buried in that.
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@Chris You, sir, are cruel, yet hilarious. »
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And here I was all hoping to score poorly thanks to Ryder proving me a silly bunt. Now Scarps lost another 6:45, and TJ is riding for Frank. No, not you. There’s still time for the alchemy of my choices to bubble and ferment and produce a TDS humunculus, … »
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Looks Fantastic, and rides that way too, eh? »
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And….Ryder crashes out. Sigh. »
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Faaack, that’s getting steep enough to bolt holds on to! @mcsqueak I suspect Frank will be on the apron for the latter portions of his attempt, and given the potential for disaster, no shame there. »
@Spun Up If you’re going to sink low enough to play motivational music, you should be scientific about it. Calculate the cadence required given the gearing to hit the goal distance, and make an extended ‘dunce mix’ with the beat fixed to the needed BPM…. »
37.777 Insufficient data to base this on, as Frank doesn’t upload much to Strava, or ride much on flat roads it seems. I’d like to see him break 40, but that track sounds vicious. »
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PS: Amador needs to add a few more syllables to his already ludicrous second last name, for rhythmical machine gun reasons and my personal amusement. BIZZAKKAWAKKAWAKKAZAKKAWAKKANOVA at the very LEAST. Amen. Hail Merckx. »
Final TT is a warm up followed by nothing but climbing, Ryder will be eating like a pig to recover lost weight and form while supporting Oh Danny Boy who’s gonna be in perfect position to slowly grind off every last burr to pull this shit off. Scarpony is… »
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Given that you aren’t attempting to set a new Hour Record, what’s the expected distance you hope to suffer gloriously toward? »
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This is shaping up to be the best month of new articles this site has ever seen. Absolutely spot on fantastic, brett. »
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@strathlubnaig That link is dead, presumably due to a wee overstatement. He only raced over 1,000 km with a broken bone in his hand. Ridiculously tough enough, imho. »
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When shop windows aren’t near, I like checking my position by the shadow cast near sunset on tall, dry grasses. »
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@Gianni Chapeau @Strathlubnaig @Gianni ‘Stairclimber’. Lol. Oh, and I like to be my own pychopharmacologist, so I’d best be adjusting the dosage up, way way up, past 11 perhaps. Keeping away from the MRB’s, sadly, as I’m ‘actually’ peaking in under 2 m… »
Fantastic, beautiful stage loaded with immense pain and pure will. Sorry Cadel faded, but delighted by Betancur’s performance. »
@Beers +1 for every remark. »
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Yep. Wholeheartedly agree, environment is crucial to ride aesthetics and personal motivation. Example: lived in Tsawwassen, could leave my apartment and be on quiet, farmy roads inside 3 minutes. Herons flapping out of ditches, a handful of like-minded t… »
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Long solo rides can begin to feel like you’ve been dropped and no one gives a shit. Then you dwell on every negative aspect of your existence and consider chucking this stupid fucking sport of all suffering, and for what? Super cathartic to let that stuff… »
@DerHoggz Breakfast panini with egg/ham/english muffin. Carbs/protein/fat, not sweet, easy to digest. Worked the trick today. »
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2 hours at or near threshold and that’s all I can pull out of my threshed brain. VSP PICKS (2nd Rest Day Swaps): 1. Nibbler 2. Cuddler 3. Uranater 4. Scarponier 5. Betancurryer »
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‘Wait’ of a Nation will probably be another couple of minutes. Sigh. VSP PICKS: 1. Betancur 2. Nibali 3. Wiggins 4. Evans 5. Gesink »
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I would have thought that too, but my home location regularly drifts in elevation as much as 100 metres. ‘Oh, right, -74 metres, that was when I chose to ignore the bridge and instead rode on the river bottom. Clearly, the virtual power figures were ‘way … »
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Has anyone ever looked more utterly fucked than Tiralongo at the finish? Glorious. Hands down, Il Giro. »
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I have self-shaving legs, and arms too for that matter. It’s like I’ve evolved right out of hair in those locations, or I was simply born to observe at least one of The Rules. »
On Saturday, urbanwhitetrash, a man doubly blessed by being born with 50% Belgian blood on The Prophet’s birthday, took me under his wing for a 227 km sortie into winds clever enough to always shift in front of us at a moment’s notice. In observance of t… »