Comments on: Kool-Aid

By: duane

duane — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:50:08 +0000

YAY MATT!!! I expect to see you in the Bldg 17 garage for the commute home; after my torn calf heals – it’s a bad story including a ‘fatter than the fat cyclist’ cyclist and an attempt at doing something that should be left to a ‘less fat than that fat cyclist’ cyclist.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 22:03:10 +0000

Let me just remark here that you cyclists are plumb CRAZY! And I mean that in the nicest possible way.Of course, I’d be right there with you if I could. Instead, the most dangerous maneuver I do is to lean to the right, bend over a bit, and turn the thing that increases the resistance, ever so slightly. But when you think about it, that’s pretty risky behavior, considering my girth, high CG, and the distance to the (oak) floor.Oh… and Nikared, thank you for your comment… I thought it was just me who needed crazy stuff like capitalization and punctuation in order to decipher the true import of the written word. A favorite book: Eats, Shoots and leaves.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:02:33 +0000

So true about how nice it is to have challenges. I went and rode up Mt. Mitchell last weekend and kinda thought "Well now I’ve done it, I am in no hurry to do it again". As the weekend approaches, I am now thinking "I bet I can chop a half hour off the round trip if I really tried". Like any good fat cyclist would, of course.For the record, for about a 45 mile round trip, it took me 4 1/2 hours. 3 up, 1 1/2 down. Ouch, a good 17.5 miles of serious climbing (7-10%) and a couple more miles of 1-2%, maybe 4 miles of flat/downhill, mostly at the bottom of course. Pretty darn painful, and I can’t wait to do it again.

By: Susie

Susie — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:33:30 +0000

You are the man. The Jim Jones of biking. My husband and I have done the same thing with our son. He has had the total batch of Kool-Aid. It’s great!!! Keep up the preaching, man.

By: Fat Cyclist

Fat Cyclist — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 05:49:38 +0000

nikared – that’s what my entry today needed: a conclusion! you summed up what i was trying to get at beautifully. thanks.

By: AO

AO — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 05:11:19 +0000

Chris,Some new inventions: punctuation and capitalization. They’ll make your post a lot easier to read.Anyway, fatty, that is awesome that Matt has come to embrace biking. The beauty of biking is that it gives us all challenges that we otherwise would never face. In this day and age we rarely are physically challenged (which is good, really), but we lack the opportunity to look back on a big challenge and say: "I conquered that." The first time I took the wife on a long distance ride (only 32 miles) she was cursing me most of the way, but when we got to the climax of the ride and looked back at where we had been, she had an immense sense of accomplishment and fulfillment that is hard to duplicate anywhere else.Great blog/writing. Keep it up.

By: peppers

peppers — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 23:23:31 +0000

al troutwig sighiting there he was again comenting on Tennis wearing a suit not a polo there was a moment i thought he was talking about lance however it was discovery he was talking about another retired person who made a comeback Martina Navartolova she now only plays doubles i guess but who knows maybe they will pan the audiance and find waldo…i mean Lance just so he can talk about him again…maybe USA network should also bring in the side kick bob-o phil and paul