Comments on: The DQ-ing of Fatty, Part 3: Big Motor, Huge Heart

By: penomet gains

penomet gains — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:41:53 +0000

penomet gains…

Fat Cyclist…

By: slo joe

slo joe — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 23:55:07 +0000

Belated kudos to Heath and you. You do end up a winner in more ways than one.

By: J

Fri, 26 Sep 2014 04:39:00 +0000

I blame autocorrect. As I typed, my phone wanted to alter “blame autocorrect” to “balm auto current” as a predictive suggestion. Not too sure what that says of me though.

By: J

Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:32:11 +0000

“If anyone wanted in front of me, were going to have to earn it.”

I think your typing mishaps are overshadowed but how touching the experiences are…

There seems to be some karmic law that causes people who point out typos to make at least one typo themselves. – FC

By: Dave T

Dave T — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:11:12 +0000

Wow didn’t see that one coming. Great job Heath indeed a huge heart and what power to have caught fatty and passed him pushing Emery. Congratulations to you all.

By: Tom in Albany

Tom in Albany — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:59:35 +0000

Look out, Fatty. Alpha Genix is accusing you of taking nice knowledge… :-))

By: Tom in Albany

Tom in Albany — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:58:50 +0000

FatCyclist – Doing good since I don’t know when!

Thanks for the story and the story within the story and so on and so forth…

By: PNP

PNP — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 03:51:27 +0000

Thanks for the information. Now I know!

Still, the way it worked out was amazing. Funny how things work out sometimes, isn’t it?

By: BamaJim

BamaJim — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 02:56:10 +0000

Big motor, huge heart – that’s something we all should aspire to. Great story!

By: PNP

PNP — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 22:26:31 +0000

Okay, point and laugh if you want to, but there’s something I don’t understand. You went off course, but then you went back and got on the course, right? So didn’t you just add distance, but really did do the whole course (which would making your placing even more impressive)? Or did you cut across somewhere to get back to the course? Or is there a rule that if you deviate from the course at all, you’re disqualified? See, this is important, because if I’m ever crazy enough to enter a race (yeah, that’ll happen…), I need to know these things!

The way I left the course and then re-joined it meant that I probably did about 0.25 miles less distance than the official course. The time difference would be negligible, though (maybe), because I had to come to a complete stop and wait for traffic to clear before I could make a left turn to rejoin the course. In the end, though, longer or shorter / more time or less doesn’t matter. I was at a race and didn’t ride the defined course. – FC