"dude what's the matter..."
Made me chuckle. Of course you HAVE to book mark simon's blog now. But anyway the prompt was triggered by todays 'cross' lunch. So we do a warm up, ride around a bit, get a good solid 90 second 500+ watt interval cool down for 4 minutes or so and then go for a little run with the bike... Picture this. 3 people clad in fancy cycling gear, two of em in matching kit and one wearing the babershop colors of IBC, all running with their bikes. All the runners and the cars tootling past on the BLVD musta been scratchin their heads.
It happens to me all the time. Doing the dismount/remount drills. On and off, on and off. And inevitably some cyclist will slow down and make it a point to ask: "is everything okay?"
I generally just bite my tongue and say "yup, no problems" but deep down i wanna say something like "yeah, there's a problem, i can't pedal more than one revolution and then i have to get off the bike and run with it for a few steps so i can pedal one more..." or something a bit more clever.
Just kinda makes me wonder what people think when they see cyclocrossers out practicing... 3 people? all flats and they are in a hurry to get somewhere? anyway...
"Dude What's the matter."
practice practice practice...
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we do our on/offs on a hill where the 'cross country team, nordic team, and other assorted health conscious individuals from the college and greater city community use to run/jog (its a grassy spot at the entrance to some trails). except for the ones who know me, im sure they all think we are nuts. actually one random 60 year old guy asked us if we were training for 'cross once....he had raced back in the day, but otherwise, they must think we are nuts.
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