which of course will backfire...
I'm gonna try and get a bit written before reading the rest of the world that i find interesting
and while waiting for a notary public to come back for lunch - i had a few ideas - things i wanted to say, but DTBL (damn the bad luck for the internetedly challenged), i didn't have my handy dandy moleskin notebook in my pocket. Soooo i flipped open the cell phone and wrote myself a memo... getting not so bad at the Abc thing on the phone pad... not media generation good, but considering i don't send en much i'm easily impressed...
okay here's what it says:
Runners form - Cycling Blog Similarities - Zinn on 29er Debate - Racing Age
okay - first one... its gotten nice enough that the sensible warm weather lazy people are out running... The fairweather crowd. Like in cycling, the people who only get the bikes out when the temps rise about 60.
These are people out there with the shittiest strangest weirdest running styles imaginable. Its unbelievable. When i ran cross country and track our coach was all about form. Form, focus on your arms, listen to your feet, no if your shoes make noise when they hit the track/road/trail that sound is wasted energy and wear and tear on your body, arms swing in the direction of momentum, not across your body, watch those elbows... relax that upper body, relax the face... don't waste muscle contractions where you don't need them...
and on and on and on... shuffle runners make me laugh the most... why the fuck don't you just walk... you'll go just as fast, maybe even get a better workout, long striders are funny, cause they typically take lots of breaks.
Anyway - i just had to vent about funny looking runners... i should just stop along the boulevard one day and take pictures of examples...
or not... maybe i'd be tempted to just take pictures of the women runnin in uber thin pink addidas shorts, with the black thong... kinda funny - when the black string dissapears half-way down the ass... maybe it was just he contrast with the pink shorts and her skin... who knows... going from that visual to...
(damn elipses - i love em)
Cycling Blog Similarities.
Esp with the 29er debate, when Cycling news 'broke' that story, everyone jumped on it... Big jonny (at DC), nick at 32sixteen, the guy that started it and i assume countless others... me included. it would be a worthwhile waste of time to go through and compile all the blog entries related to say that specific topic and see the range of comments... but i'm not gonna do it unless i am sitting a home with internet and nothing to watch on TV while the girls are taking a nap... and at this rate i'm gonna start taking naps WITH them...
okay that lead to me thinkin about Zinn in relation to the 29er debate following the whole tech article he posted yesterday. And i got to thinking - i should send off a letter. I really should. And i did...
next topic - oh one interjection... i should really include Patrick O'Grady in the list of authors... its different though - he's an artist and a true comedian... up there with Bill Waterson and gary larson.. and yeah - i'd like to add him to the table, but then it'd be a big ol' boring industry thing and i'd be outnumbered... no fun for them... or maybe we'd all just consume enough to make it so... i'd imaging me, mike and patrick might easily overwhelm lennard and dawn with consumtion....
(to be continued at some point later today)
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one day spent like a fucking maniac - hours wasted cause i can't find shit and when GD solutions don't fucking work...
maybe i'll get to the rest of my list later - but tomorrow ain't lookin any better... i somehow managed to double schedule myself! YIPEE
farkinheck
peace out pimps!
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I dont' buy his 20% fluctuation in instantaneous velocity every pedal stroke number. Maybe in extreme cases of standing on a severe climb, but not all the time. He pulls this figure out of thin air. He never shows a full crank rotation with both pedals combined, because it would not help his case. To use this 20% fluctuation and then carry this out for 3 hours (where in this hemisphere is there such a climb that he would be standing, straining to turn the crank for 3 hours straight?) is simply exagerration. There were 3 ads for light wheels, and one for light pedals on the same page as the article. VN and journalistic integrity? Not so sure about that.
Rotating weight is important, no doubt. If you care about going fast, that is. The original article claims that all the Tour bike were on the UCI low limit, and so the next step is for everyone to reduce rotating weight by any means neccesary and then bring the weight up to spec by increasing non-rotating, and it says this is what LA did. Maybe that is true. Do the Tour bikes have to pass the same wheel UCI wheel test as everyone else? I wonder. Never mind the value of the test has been questioned.
I think they should raise the minimum weight. I like technology as much as the next person, but it does NOTHING to promote competition between ATHLETES. We could ruin our sport just like F1 or motocross where anyone without a huge wallet doesn't have a chance. The day will come when it gets so out of hand that some organization will have "spec bikes" that you have to ride to compete. Maybe we should have "claimers" like the bullring stock car guys where you can "claim" the bike of anyone who beats you for a set (low) price. Then the race goes back to being between riders.
I'm still poor and could lose several pounds. It might not be rotating, but it slows me down.
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