Comments on: Connoisseur of Sludge

By: Unknown

Unknown — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:24:47 +0000

Mah bad.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:57:49 +0000

Be wary of where you store your gels: I was doing a mountain bike race on Saturday morning and 3/4 of the way through I hit a fallen tree which flipped me over the handlebars. Other than a very sore hand I picked myself up and carried on. About 20 minutes on I felt something dribbling down my leg – warm and sticky. My first thought was blood so I stopped and took a look… I’d managed to pop 2 sachets of Espresso Love Gu gel and this was now soaking my riding shorts and running down my leg… A most uncomfortable experience to try and finish a race with the Gu solidifying as it dried and sticking my shorts to my leg. Possibly even more than the broken finger that I’m sitting here trying to type with.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:07:23 +0000

So much wonderful information tucked into the nooks and crannies of this blog, yet the image that I will have a nightmare about during my Sunday afternoon nap will be that gross guy picking up gel packets. My personality is way too addictive to start with those packets. I’ve been tempted, but decided against it. I’m sticking with one addiction at a time.Plus, some person would see me on the side of the road licking empty gel packs and then blog about it. It would be awful.Kelly

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 19:01:55 +0000

I was checking ou tthe photo section. You have a heart rate print out of your daily commute and another of a race. It appears that your commute gives you a more strenuous work out than that race did. Is this true?

By: Unknown

Unknown — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:07:27 +0000

Hey…let’s get one thing straight. I might look like roadkill, but my teeth are always fastiously free of extras. And those itsy bits of yours (Al) are, well, so easy to make fun of. This was memorable:"You don’t get teeth like that without a lifetime’s worth of diligent effort. Sure, it’s diligent effort to avoid toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss, dentists and flouridated water, but that takes diligence in these days of public health officers and school nurses."

By: Unknown

Unknown — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:07:36 +0000

Rocky, what exactly *do* you eat on rides? Delightful crumpets and macaroons served on delicate French lace doilies, with Tibetan Orange and Saffron tea served from a fine Dresden bone china watre bottel? Do you carry one of those small Gu bottles filled with lemony water to wash your fingers afterwards? And as for the "Hillbilly Look," those are Men of the Soil. Give them the dignity they have earned. You don’t get teeth like that without a lifetime’s worth of diligent effort. Sure, it’s diligent effort to avoid toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss, dentists and flouridated water, but that takes diligence in these days of public health officers and school nurses. Besides, all that stuff about how you look and oral food rockets… Fatty has shown the pictures of you on long rides. Dude, you look like rare roast beef slathered in gravy, except nobody, and I mean *nobody*, would ever slather that much gravy on a piece of roast beef. Rocky, will you never learn? Nobody makes fun of my nuts and gets away with it. Ps: I can make fun of you because other than the bonking, I probably sweat even worse than you, and if I’m having a bit of an asthma day, my face is redder than the Chinese government, and my shallow rapid breathing sounds like a horse in Lamaze class. Volunteers do indeed run, but it’s not from the crunched up cashews rocketing out of my mouth.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:08:21 +0000

This may be a rumor but I hear that the French are considering testing the riders of the Tour de France for Gel.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:09:48 +0000

MuMo–thanks!Fatty–Sanctimony is your density. But hey, you preach a good sermon.Al–the only downside to eating nuts, tasty and satisfying as they are, is that they add to the hillbilly look, what with all of that nut fodder in the gaps in your teeth. When you offer an ingratiating smile to the race volunteers they gasp, cringe, and are forced look away. And should you venture words, said fodder then becomes shrapnel, forcing them to relock the gaze enabling them to shuck and jive to avoid getting any on them. Nuts have got such a nursing home feel to them. Food chunks everywhere. Plus, despite all of the brushing and flossing and rinsing, you still inevitably find a stubborn hunk of nut a couple of days later that has just been fermenting there in the dank, dark recesses. Eeewwwww.

By: Megan

Megan — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:11:14 +0000

This (somehow) reminded me of something. I was on my highschool cross country team freshman year… dont ask me why. Shortly after I joined, I became hooked on energy bars. They were filling and worked quite efficently the day of a race. It was only until after cross country season was over that I realized what I had been eating for the past 3 months and I’ve never been able to eat another one since. Gross.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 04:05:19 +0000

Rocky – Huge congrats on your win! Toady – I think you should get some sort of prize for that entry.Fatty – I wonder if peanut butter comes in those little thingys like ketchup and hot sauce, etc., at the fast food joints. Peanuts are great protein. However, protein doesn’t get into the bloodstream as fast as carbos/sugar, so maybe Rocky could produce more M&M’s. Or you could get a lot of those little packets of honey from Kentucky Chucky’s supplier. From what I’m reading here, it can’t be any stickier than the cyclist’s goo packets.dug needs a blog, eh? I know the guy who drives the Celebrity Blog Tour Bus, so I could get him on the itinerary.Hugs,MuMo