Wow, we have been truly graced with an abundance of great weather here in North Central Florida. Hopefully, you took advantage of it and got outside.
I did 5 days of riding this past week, and logged about 240 miles. The tue/thurs rides have been a great way to put in a nice 80 miles during the week and I (as well as others) had this past friday off due to Veterans Day. Danny, Scott, Jayson, Myself and Brett Miller put in about 50 miles friday morning and then met Doug F. for lunch at "dinner" in the Thornbrook Plaza.
Saturday, Jayson and I met out at San Felasco for a little mountain biking. I only crashed once and it was pretty harmless. I've realized that my mountain bike is in need of some good ole TLC, unless the gears are supposed to shift all on their own. I told Jayson that maybe it would have been better had we not done any mountain bike riding before we tackle the 52 mile Tour de Felaso in January...that way we would go into it not really knowing how bad it was going to suck. But now, we have over two months of knowing exactly what we're getting ourselves into.
I rode with the GCC on sunday morning. I guess the Team Florida rides have been attracting a lot of the GCC members, cause there were only like 10 of us on the ride...and that included both the A-riders as well as the Gliders. We made the best of it as another gorgeous day accompanied us. We took a nice easy ride all the way north on 241 to Providence (not Rhode Island),
then east over to LaCross (pronounced "Lay-Cross" if you're Scott), then headed back towards home. Naked Ed instigated an increase in speed as we got about 10-12 miles from the Chevron. After a series of attacks and counter-attacks, everyone was dropped except Ed, Bryan (from Zimbabwe) and myself. The three of us faught the headwinds all the way home and I was able to come around Ed for the sprint finish.
Here's a question...
How many of you out there pronounce the word "derailleur" -de-rayl-yur
and how many pronounce it - de-rayl-er
???
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Paul, how about "day-rai-jeurrrr". Make sure you make the rrrrrrrrrr role like in demarer (day-ma-ray) ( french for "attack". I envy your 240 miles. I went mountain biking for a few hours on sunday at san felasco with about 6 other guys. Oh yes, I remember, all the guys were girls, and they could kick your behind on these trails. See you soon...at San Felasco...with a full moon.....
In case anyone wants to load their MP3 player for the rides around the industrial park. Just found this and thought it was funny.
A playlist of tunes to fit the many moods of cycling:
When you’re feeling good: "King of the Road" (Roger Miller)
When Fido’s charging: "Who Let the Dogs Out?" (Baha Men)
When you’re out of shape: "Achy Breaky Heart" (by the guy with two first names. Billy Joe . . . no, he jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge . . . Billy Ray Cyrus)
When you’re really out of shape: "I’m Walkin’" (Fats Domino)
When you’re doing a weekend crit: "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (U2)
When you’re riding in traffic: "Convoy" (C.W. McCall), "Stayin’ Alive" (Bee Gees), "I Can’t Drive 55" (Sammy Hagar), "Psycho Killer" (Talking Heads)
When the wind is howling: "Gimme Shelter" (Rolling Stones)
When you bonk: "Purple Haze" (Jimi Hendrix), "Crazy" (Patsy Cline)
When cleaning your drivetrain: "Chain of Fools" (Aretha Franklin), "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" (AC/DC)
When you get dropped: "Alone Again (Naturally)" (Gilbert O’Sullivan)
When you’re doing a hilly ride: "Climb Every Mountain" (Julie Andrews), "Get Up" (James Brown)
When you leave your spare tube at home: "Oops! I Did It Again" (Britney Spears)
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