Comments on: 2015 Leadville 100 Race Report, Part 6: New Objective http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/ It's like reality TV. Except it's real. And there's no TV. Fri, 04 Mar 2022 03:21:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Frank W http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/comment-page-1/#comment-666123 Frank W Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:01:42 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/#comment-666123 ...that made me blend into the background? …that made me blend into the background?

]]> By: Frank W http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/comment-page-1/#comment-666122 Frank W Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:58:37 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/#comment-666122 In your defense I was dressed all in black and was riding a black bike. Maybe it was the helmet.... [img]http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af19/factory3/batfrank_zpszothbvv7.jpg[/img] <blockquote>Awesomeest Photoshop ever. - FC</blockquote> In your defense I was dressed all in black and was riding a black bike. Maybe it was the helmet….
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Awesomeest Photoshop ever. – FC

]]> By: Jeff Dieffenbach http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/comment-page-1/#comment-666120 Jeff Dieffenbach Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:25:31 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/#comment-666120 Fatty, once you scythe your way through the backlog of race reports and other ideas in your queue, you should think about a post on navigation. The fact that on your 19th Leadville start, you thought that you might be lost is unfathomable to me. You see, where you were gifted with climbing skills, I was gifted with map skills. I can still replay the full course of every cyclocross race that I've done in my mind. And I could certainly ride the Leadville course, even unmarked, without error. (It probably doesn't hurt that I'm riding these courses at sufficiently slower speed such that my mind has more time to take them in.) Since you're the award-winning blogger, I'll leave it to you to flesh out the angle for this post, but perhaps it's a neuroscience-level examination of brain structure differences in the navigationally-gifted versus the navigationally-challenged. Alternately, maybe it's just something you make up in fake-news style so that it's actually entertaining. Fatty, once you scythe your way through the backlog of race reports and other ideas in your queue, you should think about a post on navigation.

The fact that on your 19th Leadville start, you thought that you might be lost is unfathomable to me.

You see, where you were gifted with climbing skills, I was gifted with map skills. I can still replay the full course of every cyclocross race that I’ve done in my mind. And I could certainly ride the Leadville course, even unmarked, without error. (It probably doesn’t hurt that I’m riding these courses at sufficiently slower speed such that my mind has more time to take them in.)

Since you’re the award-winning blogger, I’ll leave it to you to flesh out the angle for this post, but perhaps it’s a neuroscience-level examination of brain structure differences in the navigationally-gifted versus the navigationally-challenged. Alternately, maybe it’s just something you make up in fake-news style so that it’s actually entertaining.

]]> By: Alan http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/comment-page-1/#comment-666119 Alan Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:56:53 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/#comment-666119 Still pretty psyched to have given you a monster running start at Powlerline... [img]https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11889429_10206180582387074_4956191680250111270_n.jpg?oh=42bd7883a12d74f2fb292d57c08a78ec&oe=566DCEA9[/img] Still pretty psyched to have given you a monster running start at Powlerline…
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]]> By: NZ Michelle http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/comment-page-1/#comment-666117 NZ Michelle Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:28:39 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/#comment-666117 Ah...Disregard my comment above. A coincidence that you were 5 hours 39 into the race and had a time on that segment of 57:39. Keep up the race reports, they are great. Ah…Disregard my comment above. A coincidence that you were 5 hours 39 into the race and had a time on that segment of 57:39. Keep up the race reports, they are great.

]]> By: Brian http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/comment-page-1/#comment-666116 Brian Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:01:21 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/#comment-666116 @corrine. I cheated too and looked at the results. I just couldnt take it. I had to know and I regret nothing. I still love it. And yes I started reading some more of the old race reports again. I hate that I didn't get into Leadville this year but had a blast last year. Fatty keep up the awesome stories and big love from Memphis. @corrine. I cheated too and looked at the results. I just couldnt take it. I had to know and I regret nothing. I still love it. And yes I started reading some more of the old race reports again. I hate that I didn’t get into Leadville this year but had a blast last year. Fatty keep up the awesome stories and big love from Memphis.

]]> By: Kristina http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/comment-page-1/#comment-666115 Kristina Thu, 27 Aug 2015 01:12:55 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/#comment-666115 Yay, more material for my strange addiction to reading about something I will never do!! I think I've actually probably read them all before (I've been reading here regularly since... 2008, maybe?). But it will have been long enough that re-reading will be almost like reading from the first time. And they're all so nicely organized! Far be it from me to resist. Thanks, Fatty and Jeff :) Yay, more material for my strange addiction to reading about something I will never do!! I think I’ve actually probably read them all before (I’ve been reading here regularly since… 2008, maybe?). But it will have been long enough that re-reading will be almost like reading from the first time. And they’re all so nicely organized! Far be it from me to resist.

Thanks, Fatty and Jeff :)

]]> By: NZ Michelle http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/comment-page-1/#comment-666113 NZ Michelle Wed, 26 Aug 2015 21:33:39 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/#comment-666113 Great story. I'm loving it and keep repeatedly checking for the next installment. I'm hooked! Just wondering though, is the 5:39 just above your timing table supposed to be 57:39? Great story. I’m loving it and keep repeatedly checking for the next installment. I’m hooked! Just wondering though, is the 5:39 just above your timing table supposed to be 57:39?

]]> By: Jeff Dieffenbach http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/comment-page-1/#comment-666111 Jeff Dieffenbach Wed, 26 Aug 2015 21:06:27 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/#comment-666111 Actually, Fatty, it's simply the 4th Law of Thermodynamics: net conservation of time. As the race gets shorter, the ride report gets longer. Actually, Fatty, it’s simply the 4th Law of Thermodynamics: net conservation of time. As the race gets shorter, the ride report gets longer.

]]> By: Jeff Dieffenbach http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/comment-page-1/#comment-666110 Jeff Dieffenbach Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:18:21 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2015/08/26/2015-leadville-100-race-report-part-6-new-objective/#comment-666110 @Kristina and @Corrine, I can't help you with 2015 Part 7, but I CAN serve up 2010 Part 1. Note that this is back when ... gasp ... Leadville race reports could apparently be done in two parts. http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/08/16/2010-leadville-100-race-report-part-1/ <blockquote>Obviously, as I get older, I become more and more self-indulgent in my storytelling. - FC</blockquote> @Kristina and @Corrine, I can’t help you with 2015 Part 7, but I CAN serve up 2010 Part 1. Note that this is back when … gasp … Leadville race reports could apparently be done in two parts.

http://www.fatcyclist.com/2010/08/16/2010-leadville-100-race-report-part-1/

Obviously, as I get older, I become more and more self-indulgent in my storytelling. – FC

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