ok, i will try to do a little trash talkin' as soon as i have some trash to talk. at the moment i'm coming off a less than stellar performance in which i crashed not once, but twice, watched a smoking frenchman toast me and had a guy who just started riding mountain bikes last year almost catch me. i bled all over my number  plate, and i barely passed the guy with one leg half way through the second lap. beyond that, i have a bruise on my hip and i have no way to get to skeggs tomorrow to watch kyle dust me for the third week in a row. with that said, if anyone want to come pick me up in downtown san mateo tomorrow I will have my bike and be ready to roll. if no one comes i'll spin up to waterdog park and wish that that was where mo was bringin' her single friends to ride. okay, race report? what's a race report?

ty

On 5/22/06, Mike Gin <ginmtb@... > wrote:

Yeah definitely bring your single girlfriends around again... :)

The Rookie Boy will always be the Rookie Boy.  Just fits right.
Kinda like Old Lady Seery, McCrackin/McCranky, Jabba the Nick, Big
Head, etc.

Just because Ty is new doesn't mean he gets the Rookie moniker.
Maybe First Blood or Youngblood or something like that.

Oh and of course you can run smack about someone who's faster than
you.  If you couldn't, you'd never hear from me (uhh, maybe y'all
would prefer that be the rule).

Mike


--- In teamwrongway@yahoogroups.com, "meredithob" <meredithob@...>
wrote:
>
> So Isaias and I were talking about the new guy and how he could now
> be considered the new member of Team Wrong Way since he rides with
> you guys on Tuesdays, drinks beer and races with a TWW jersey on.
We
> figured all that was left was for him to show up on this list and
> talk some trash. (Looks like he's got the list part down, he'll
have
> to prove his trash talking abilities.) Then Isaias and I came to
our
> senses and realized he'd be considered a true TWW rookie once
> Leonard talked trash to him, hence relinquishing Leonard's revered
> rookie status.
>
> I'm not sure if the below mention quite fits the bill, but it's a
> starting point.
>
> cheers!
> Mo
>
> ps. Does this mean I can start bringing my single girl friends
> around again?
>
> --- In teamwrongway@yahoogroups.com, Matt Leonard <maleonardphi@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Well, first the positives:
> >
> >   1)  The weather was great.  It stayed cool and overcast.
> >   2)  The frequency of my crashes decreased by a factor of 5
> >   3)  I finished 20 minutes faster than last year
> >   4)  No DNF like last year
> >
> >   Now, the negatives
> >
> >   1)  The intesity of my crashes increased by a factor of 5
> >   2)  Ty, the new guy kicked my ass by 6 minutes in his first
race
> ever, then rubbed it in by showing me how he could do a no handed
> track stand
> >   3)  Franck also beat me by ~ 10 minutes, this after having his
> pre-race cigarette
> >   4)  5th out of 10 (I list this as a negative, just cause I've
> put higher expectiations on my races lately)
> >
> >   So my morning started out well.  Katie decided she would come
> and watch me race since it wasn't raining.  Its always nice to see
> someone cheering you on as you come around.  We showed up around 9
> and ran in to Gin, Urbina and Scott.  After saying hello, headed up
> to registration and ran in to Ty and Isaias.  I got my trainer set
> up, fiddled with a couple of things and started warming up.  I've
> been feeling tired lately, I think all of this really slow, low
> intensity road riding is taking a toll on the strength of my legs.
> Sure, I can go ride for 10 hours straight, but ask me to sprint up
a
> hill and I just can't do it anymore.
> >
> >   Anyway, after 20 minutes or so I get off my bike and everyone
> tells me I better get to the starting line.  Crap, I thought the
> race started at 10:30, nope, 10:00.  Damnit!  I raced over there,
> borrowed Bob's pump and put some air in my front tire.  The whistle
> goes off and Franck, Ty and I are off.  At the first little hill,
> they left me but I tried to keep them in my sites.  As soon as we
> hit the hill, everyone in front of me got off and started walking,
> so I was forced to join in.  I didn't see Franck and Ty again until
> the finish line.  I made my way through the crowd, passing maybe 10
> people or so.  I wasn't feeling good, my rythme has just been off.
> I haven't been getting enough sleep lately, and on top of just not
> pushing myself hard enough lately on my mountain bike, my reflexes
> are off.  Oh well, just had to keep going.  Oh, yeah, and about 1/4
> of the way through the first lap, I realized I needed air in my
rear
> tire.  DOH!  It wasn't enought to make me stop
> >  though.
> >
> >   So I hit the top of the hill where I got my flat last year, and
> was feeling alright.  I headed down the rocky stuff feeling okay.
> After a little bit, there were some big rock stairs and my tire
> slips and I hear this loud, quick PPPPSSSSSTTTTTT.  My front tire
> rolled off the rim and lost a bunch of air.  In the process, it
slid
> out from under me and all of a sudden, I became really friendly
with
> a nice, big, flat rock.  I said hello, got up and put air in both
my
> tires as all of the people I had worked so hard to pass went right
> on by me.  All in all, I probably lost 3 minutes collecting
myself.
> Damnit.
> >
> >   I continued on and passed a couple more people.  I started
> feeling good on the second half of the second lap, but there was
> just too much traffic.  I was in that train of bad riders/roadies
> that walked every obstacle.  I made my way by a couple, but it just
> enough to make me happy.  Especially since I was only 16 seconds
out
> of 4th.
> >
> >   When it was all over, I looked at my polar watch and realized,
> my tire wasn't spinninig for over 11 minutes of the race.  I think
> 1/3 of it was due to my 2 crashes, but the other 2/3 was just
> stopping to wait for people who just hit the brakes once the saw a
> little rock.  Oh well.  I would feel a lot better about yesterday
if
> I would have had the one bad crash.  I don't mind crashing and
> hurting myself, thats part of the risk involved with the sport.  It
> just sucked to get stuck behind everyone all over again.  I didn't
> get to just let it all out and enjoy my ride.  I was constantly
> stuck behind people I started to get frustrated.  Oh well, as I
told
> one of the pro or expert women who passed me right before the big
> hill, then got off 10 feet in to it, "It's not like I'm a pro or
> anything.  Hell, I'm not even good enough to brag to my friends"
We
> both laughed and pushed our bikes up the hill.
> >
> >   Next year I will try to set aside more time to make sure my
bike
> is ready for the race, and warm up better so I can try to stay out
> in front for the big climb.  All in all, hanging out at the end of
> the race made me forget I even suffered for 2 hours.  It was
awesome
> just sitting around, icing my face with a cold Moose Drool and
> swapping stories about the afternoon.
> >
> >   Matt Leonard
> >   5th of 10
> >   1:50:08
> >
> >
> >
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