but in honor of him draggin his knuckles across the keyboard just to prove me wrong (about no new posts)... i've titled this from the lead in track on the Curious George soundtrack...
its freaking HOT... the ride down to grab that Fecked up digi-box warmed me up just a touch too much... now i can't quite freaking cool down... AC? bah... why? Humidity control in the office? Bah the building is under construction, why'd we wanna do that...
oh and i've gotta take exception with Dave's quote from that book:
"Hard work has a magical way of erasing any so-called genetic limitations."BUUUUHLSHEET...
no way! - ya Can overcome lazy habits- you can realize the full genetic potential through hard work
but ya ain't NEVER gonna EVER erase 'genetic' limitations.... not without resorting to drugs (EPO, HGH, Roids.... ).
And that's pretty much the crux to the rampant use of performance enhancing methods in sports... these drugs blur that genetic barrier that sets people like Eddy M, and co. apart from the competition.
I've seen a handful of super super SUPER dedicated cyclists, with more drive, harder work than you can imagine, every sacrifice made to get faster. And they never amount to much. Always they think there's some magic training regieme, some magic potion (that is legal) but they don't ever quite make it... because once they have fully realized their potential, thats it.
the good news for sucky folks like me and dave (if he is to be believed) is that realizing the full genetic potential is one hell of a lot of work and only a few people make it to that level...
Heck i'd wager even with Nega-Coach's help over the last 10 years that poster boy on the web page there... some dude named Eric i think ;-) ... that boy still ain't at his genetic potential... but you can say he looks one hell of a lot shaper in that blue and yellow kit moving over the barrier than falling on his face!
/rant off on pseudo science and salespitchy 'trainers'
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Shit, I thought it was Diana Ross. Man am I out of touch.
Drugs in cycling is such a sad story...
Nega-Coach's basic philosophies are based on most of us wankers not being at nor anywhere near our true "potential." There is too much information overload (there's some pleonasm for ya) and riders who do 400 hours or less a year start saying "I'm a sprinter" or "I'm a climber" or "I need a program" or "I need a powermeter". All that stuff is pure BS unless you are far enough along to curve that you are flirting with the asymptote. Most of us have a long, long, way to go... so yeah, for us, hard work can get us a long way. Even if it's improperly structured, poorly thought out, not tracked, or not anything else that we're "supposed to do." Of course there are still good methods and bad methods, but listen to Ge-Willi and just ride yo' damn bike mofo!
I think I'm starting to write like Ge-Willi. dunno...
I dunno - i'd hate to head over to Solobreak and find it written like me...
its one thing to read me, and then read someone else writing like me...
some people might think i'm double web loggin it...
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