Holy Crap

I come back and there is actually lively discussion about the whole sandbagging thing.
Kerry Litka has a new freaking web page. OMG - has she moved out of the 90's web page design finally? That and begin gone away from everything yesterday (driving to Boston with Peanut to get her to Belgium, then getting the ball joints replaced on the car)... i haven't even begun to read the whole internet... much less contemplate how to answer the question: "Where is GeWilli Now?"

so i went to the comments and as i was reading through i wrote down a few notes.

JB…

Beating on Fries. If he would man up and talk about the someone other than Lynne in the 2/3 race, fine. I’d give him some slack.

But.

Well…

Bruce is right. Unless you carry some big sponsor money, or something of value to be exploited to your advantage (hey I yelled the loudest for you) then cool. I’ve seen him in good form. This weekend he just sounded like a big drunk bully paid by Lynne and Tim’s sponsors to give them as much air time as possible. Sure. Tim rolled a tubular (now if I had glued it…) and worked back. I dunno. Whatever.

And Cort: http://hydrophobik.blogspot.com/
“Just out of curiosity, did John Peterson receive the same amount of attention (READ: ill-will) after decimating the 2/3s on Sat. AND Sun.?”

Nope. No one noticed him. Richard wouldn’t stop talking about lynne and no one knew if he was the same guy who won the day before.
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Let me make it clear. I do not support the use of the phrase sandbagger when racing. It is only appropriate to use between team mates, best friends, in private, between a few friends. NOT when racing, NOT in front of others.

scotty's comment about the course conditions and all that are very much a big part of cross. Someone can show up at G-ster and rock the course and kick ass, but at a more technical course get their ass handed to them.

That's kinda the cool thing about cross. Courses suit some people more than others. But, the best eventually master all the courses.

IF you look at the elite race, maybe that second pack of guys should have all been racing in the 2/3 race. Who knows. Racing is racing, cross is just too damn much fun to get worked up about stuff like all that.

I need a reminder now and then to relax, and focus on the fun, stop worrying about everyone else, focus on my race and my equipment. So what if you are a big mtb sissy and you can't conceive of racing w/o your top mount levers *cough* colin *cough*... that's your choice. No problem. But then just like those of us who still ride clinchers who have to endure all the "tubulars are the ONLY way to race" crap, harden the fahk up.

I was slow riding in today. Didn't need any meter to tell me that. Didn't have a meter telling me that. Thinking i'll do some cross specific work tomorrow, maybe friday, and keep it as a light week.

So to the couple of people who were hoping for content yesterday, i appologize. Maybe i'll take a portable printer and a portable word processor to the dentist and get some ideas down that are floating around driving me nuts in my head. Oh and by portable i mean pen and paper.

It has been a whirlwind week. Lots of fun. Definately kicked my ass in many many ways... here's to (raising coffee mug) all this racing and work paying off in the future!

peace, be nice, smile and do something good for someone....

G