David Auker

You guys are just jealous -- the guy's a poet. (Though, criterium
riding is also poetry-worthy. C'mon, Brian Mack, etc, pen some muse
inspired crit words!! What art vision happens when wearing your tire's
label faint when taking that corner 50 times? Looking at the lap board,
are you feeling time flowing fine in relation to your energy level, or
is there a bit of Hell nibbling at your reserves? Does your desire for
the finish line outweigh the rider's elbow when he's trying to get your
sweet position in that last 5 laps?)

Rick Johnson wrote:
> Aye, make me wonder what else he carries in his pocket to the top of
> the hill...
> ;-)
>
> Joe Cipale wrote:
>> Brian,
>>
>> me thinks you have been sniffing the rareified air of the hills a bit too much...
>>
>> :^)
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> Brian Mack wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The rest of you, skip a criterium once in a while and go to a real bike
>>> race. Adopt a hill and go talk to it at night so it doesn't get
>>> lonely. Write your senators and tell them to build us roads going up
>>> hills. Write the president and tell him to bring the bulldozers back
>>> from Iraq and put them to work making us more hills. Take a pocketful
>>> of dirt from the bottom to the top of every hill each time you go up, so
>>> that the ones we have will grow bigger and stronger.
>>>
>>> Love the hill.
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
>>>
>>
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Rick Johnson

Aye, make me wonder what else he carries in his pocket to the top of
the hill...

;-)



Joe Cipale wrote:

Brian,

me thinks you have been sniffing the rareified air of the hills a bit too much...

:^)

Joe

Brian Mack wrote:

  

The rest of you, skip a criterium once in a while and go to a real bike 

race.  Adopt a hill and go talk to it at night so it doesn't get 

lonely.  Write your senators and tell them to build us roads going up 

hills.  Write the president and tell him to bring the bulldozers back 

from Iraq and put them to work making us more hills.  Take a pocketful 

of dirt from the bottom to the top of every hill each time you go up, so 

that the ones we have will grow bigger and stronger.

Love the hill.

Brian

    

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Joe Cipale

Brian,

me thinks you have been sniffing the rareified air of the hills a bit too much...

:^)

Joe

Brian Mack wrote:

> The rest of you, skip a criterium once in a while and go to a real bike
> race. Adopt a hill and go talk to it at night so it doesn't get
> lonely. Write your senators and tell them to build us roads going up
> hills. Write the president and tell him to bring the bulldozers back
> from Iraq and put them to work making us more hills. Take a pocketful
> of dirt from the bottom to the top of every hill each time you go up, so
> that the ones we have will grow bigger and stronger.
>
> Love the hill.
>
>
> Brian
>

Brian Mack

Why do we offend our lumpy hills by always apologizing about how big
they are in race announcements? We need to be proud of our hills and
mountains, and praise them when they are large and steep and one right
after another. When we mount them we must stand atop of them with our
bicycles raised high in the air and give a triumphant, barely-human call
into the wind. Hills are beautiful, wonderful; they give the cyclist a
chance to sweat, and suffer, and ascend like an angel on his way to
God. They strip the body of its excesses and purify the brain with
sweat in the bloodstream.

For my part, I am as fat and overgrown as the rest of the Oregon bike
racers. But seriously race organizers, throw a couple of decent lumps
into your races once in a while so that I can quit driving out of state
every time I want to do a real man's bike race. Take out the flats so
that everybody can see clearly who was triumphant and godly that day,
and seriously nobody wants to catch back on anyway because then they
just have to get dropped again. Have a fat man category. Have a prize
for the first racer out of the slowest part of the peleton that finishes
in each category.

The rest of you, skip a criterium once in a while and go to a real bike
race. Adopt a hill and go talk to it at night so it doesn't get
lonely. Write your senators and tell them to build us roads going up
hills. Write the president and tell him to bring the bulldozers back
from Iraq and put them to work making us more hills. Take a pocketful
of dirt from the bottom to the top of every hill each time you go up, so
that the ones we have will grow bigger and stronger.

Love the hill.

Brian

>table rock rr wrote:

Last year this course received great racer review as the climbs are
split up and steady but not too steep---well until that last lap.
Each lap is almost 19 miles and with 1000 ft of climbing it will test
you and your team tactics. Added this year are 4 miles of flats that
will allow you to catch back on if you get popped over the finish/lap
point.