Jun 17, 2013 at 07:44 PM
i owe you nothing, david. NOTHING
okay maybe a lemon honey stinger waffle. and $15
Prospect Park Weekday Training Sessions & Riding
Jun 17, 2013 at 11:29 PM
Anyone wanna do some endurance riding early tomorrow?
Jun 18, 2013 at 01:57 PM
I should be out there by 8pm today.
Jun 18, 2013 at 02:57 PM
no FBF tonight @Dave?
Jun 18, 2013 at 03:02 PM
Unfortunately nope. Can't get out early today.
Jun 18, 2013 at 09:04 PM
riding in park in 30 minutes or so. damnit, FBF cancelled.
Jun 18, 2013 at 09:17 PM
will be hitting the park for some tempo/endurance-ish laps around 8:45 p.m.....
Jun 18, 2013 at 09:18 PM
Anyone know if there is flooding in PP? Yesterday the corner after the downhill required a detour.
Jun 18, 2013 at 10:22 PM
Hm, raining pretty hard here in Manhattan. I may just sit in and do a trainer session instead...
Jun 18, 2013 at 10:50 PM
the puddle did not require a detour at 5:40
Jun 19, 2013 at 12:39 AM
It's fine. Stopped raining and the puddles ain't bad. Strange garbage bag people out tonight though. Not sure if they are recruiting...
Jun 19, 2013 at 02:30 AM
Oh, and remind me to tell my dreadful fender-instigated-terrible-awful-big-toe-impingement story sometime...
Jun 19, 2013 at 03:08 AM
Jules said:Oh, and remind me to tell my dreadful fender-instigated-terrible-awful-big-toe-impingement story sometime...
Did you tie a yellow onion to your belt as it was the style at the time?
Jun 19, 2013 at 06:43 PM
i'll be out there in 30-40 minutes riding my bicycle for about 30-40 minutes
Jun 19, 2013 at 07:20 PM
The Toe: A tale of suffering and tears lost in the rain...
So yesterday, distraught at both the cancellation of FBF and my lack of regularly scheduled mid-summer form I set out to do a little damage to myself - damage of the "oxidative stress" form. I wailed around that rainy park dodging Land Rovers on the downhill who would just as soon kill me as drive through a puddle and warily eyed the garbage bag clad denizens as they emerged zombike-like from the woods...
Triumphant - or almost as I only lasted 53 minutes out of my scheduled 60 - I coasted merrily down Union St dreaming of the wonderful feast that awaited.
Coming to stop light I un-clipped and put one foot down, turned the bars a bit and sat on the top tube. Now, having done this many times without fenders it never occurred to me that such pain, agony and distress was possible... BUT as the turned wheel and forward positioned foot intersected in what is commonly known as "space and time" I discovered the following impingement - toe caught between wheel and fender!
If you examine the carefully drawn and detailed diagrams below you will notice that the leading edge of the fender sought out that most delicate juncture of nail and toe as if it were a bamboo stake being driven in by a torturous captor. As one's natural instinct when STABBED IN THE TOENAIL BED is to pull one's foot back from the offending STAB I was doubly distraught to discover that pulling up and back only served to further entrap, pinch, stab, skewer and OMFG what is that PAIN?!?! my poor toe.
After several agonizing moments of lone, inscrutable struggle with intermittent meeps of agony I managed to free myself, avoid toppling and continue my coast downhill on Union street as I tried to process exactly what damage had been done to my poor blameless piggy.
Consider yourselves warned. Fate hates nothing more than a toe, it would seem.
Jun 19, 2013 at 07:30 PM
Where were your shoes in all of this? Did the fender push through the shoe?
Jun 19, 2013 at 07:32 PM
The 2nd rendering suggests barefoot riding.
Jun 19, 2013 at 07:48 PM
That fender went through my sidis like a bad bowl of hot of chili through a trucker...
Jun 19, 2013 at 08:50 PM
that sounds like a new "enhanced interrogation" technique. send the idea to cheney.
Jun 19, 2013 at 11:52 PM
looking at diagram 1, i see what the problem was. you kicked a giant pizza cutter
Jun 24, 2013 at 10:05 PM
Heading out now for 1/2 loop TT fun. Rush-hour is FRESH, yo.
Jun 26, 2013 at 03:20 PM
i'll be out there today @ around 1, recovery/attempting not to die of heat stroke pace
Brendan Rigby
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Jun 26, 2013 at 09:00 PM
will be out there from 7pm for 90m of moderate pace.
Jun 26, 2013 at 09:14 PM
I'll be out there to do 2 sets of TTs. Prob closer to 8p.
Jun 26, 2013 at 09:39 PM
Jun 26, 2013 at 09:50 PM
Who says I won't be drinking afterwards too?
Jun 26, 2013 at 10:15 PM
Where are we drinking?
Jun 27, 2013 at 03:16 AM
I'm now drinking on my couch. Glug glug glug.
Jun 27, 2013 at 12:07 PM
hey @eric i reckon you're not working @yang and co hard enough. yang was TTing last night, came by on the hill, and had the energy (not to mention the nerve!) to shout abuse at me as he rode by. i would have really expected him to be red-lining at that point and thus unable to jeer. just sayin.
@jules i saw canadian mike last night. i kinda felt like a massive dick as i passed him at one point, and then as he was just about to pass me i started a 1-minute interval and sped up almost as if i were trying to race him. not to worry though: just as i was going anaerobic i think he switched from recovery into low tempo and blew by me.
Jun 27, 2013 at 01:43 PM