BHP next sunday. benjamin and myself are going to bring our vans so we can all pile in with our bikes and go ride some loops. so be prepared to ride outside (unless it is raining)
thanx to team jonny for reg the team.
c.u. all on sunday!!!
Monday, March 31, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Maybe we should send this to city council?
I peed my pants reading this one.... thanks bikesnob dude!
(You should have heard the fit of cackling that resulted from my sore throat and the line "People Who Don’t Go When The Light Turns Green Because They’re Too Busy Texting, Flavoring Their Coffee, or Checking Themselves for Pubic Lice")
TREATY
Between Cyclists and Drivers
It is hereby agreed as follows:
Division of the Roadways
Drivers can have all highways, freeways, expressways, and interstates. Cyclists keep everything else. Motor vehicles shall not be allowed on local roads, and bicycles shall not be allowed on highways. The exception to this will be the Jackie Robinson Parkway (formerly the Interboro Parkway) between Brooklyn and Queens in New York. This shall be renamed in honor of professional cyclist and alleged sex symbol Mario Cipollini, and it shall be used exclusively for high-speed hair product testing. (First to be tested will be Mario’s new combination hair gel/chamois cream, which not only prevents crotchal chafing but can also keep a coiffure stationary at speeds in excess of 200mph. Will be marketed under the brand name “Taint Movin’.”)
Exchange of Prisoners
Cyclists will return to drivers all German automobile-driving Blackberry users in exchange for the return of their CSC kit-wearing, mountain bike shoe-wearing Cervelo riders. As it happens, most of the former are also the latter, so they should all be relieved to be reunited with their respective bicycles/automobiles and to make their garages whole again. Cyclists will also return all UPS, FedEx, and DHL (the Nashbar of courier companies) truck drivers in exchange for all bicycle messengers and cycle-rickshaw drivers captured in battle. There have been some lonely bongs in the cyclists’ ranks, and cyclists can expect the celebratory sound of gurgling water to ring out well into the night upon the prisoners’ return.
(As discussed during last week’s secret summit, since cyclists don’t want the recumbent riders and triathletes back, and since drivers don’t want the operators of forest-green minivans and Lincoln Town Cars back, we’ll just drop them all off on Bikini Atoll. War is hell, but at least something good has come out of it for both sides.)
The Wilderness Theater
While a truce may have been struck on the roads, apparently the war rages on in the woods as the ATV riders and mountain bikers continue to fight. How many paintballs need to be fired, and how many suits of body-armor splattered, before this madness ends? Probably a lot. So let’s just agree to look the other way and let them burn themselves out in there. They’ll all get tired eventually.
Slurs
Drivers agree to stop calling all cyclists “Lance Armstrong.” It’s enough already. If a driver absolutely must call a cyclist something, the driver may call him “Wim van Est,” or else “Heidi Van de Vijver” if the cyclist is a woman or person of indeterminate gender. In exchange, cyclists agree not to get all self-righteous and “green” during altercations with drivers. This includes: demanding that the driver stop driving; lecturing the driver on his or her vehicle’s gas mileage; and blaming the driver for yesterday’s unseasonable cold spell or for global warming-related polar bear drowning deaths.
The Forming of an Ineffectual Body to Enforce These Provisions
To ensure that cyclists and drivers continue to live side by side in peace and mutual respect as they undoubtedly will, a weak and indecisive group will be formed to oversee and enforce the provisions contained herein. This group will consist of representatives from the various Cyclist and Driver subgroups. The following subgroups of cyclists have been identified and acknowledged to date: Roadies; Randonneurs; XC Mountain Bikers; Downhillers; Freeriders; Messengers; Fixed-Gear Freestylers; Commuters; That Guy At Work Who Has A Bike He Never Rides But Is Always Asking About Yours; Cyclocrossers; and BMXers. The following driver subgroups have also been identified: Idiots; Idiots from Jersey; Women Who Are Dwarfed By Their SUVs; People Who Don’t Go When The Light Turns Green Because They’re Too Busy Texting, Flavoring Their Coffee, or Checking Themselves for Pubic Lice; Delivery People; Lost Idiots from Jersey; and Taxi Drivers.
More subgroups will be added as they are identified.
Signed this Twenty-Fifth Day of March, 2008,
__________________
Cyclists
__________________
Drivers
(You should have heard the fit of cackling that resulted from my sore throat and the line "People Who Don’t Go When The Light Turns Green Because They’re Too Busy Texting, Flavoring Their Coffee, or Checking Themselves for Pubic Lice")
TREATY
Between Cyclists and Drivers
It is hereby agreed as follows:
Division of the Roadways
Drivers can have all highways, freeways, expressways, and interstates. Cyclists keep everything else. Motor vehicles shall not be allowed on local roads, and bicycles shall not be allowed on highways. The exception to this will be the Jackie Robinson Parkway (formerly the Interboro Parkway) between Brooklyn and Queens in New York. This shall be renamed in honor of professional cyclist and alleged sex symbol Mario Cipollini, and it shall be used exclusively for high-speed hair product testing. (First to be tested will be Mario’s new combination hair gel/chamois cream, which not only prevents crotchal chafing but can also keep a coiffure stationary at speeds in excess of 200mph. Will be marketed under the brand name “Taint Movin’.”)
Exchange of Prisoners
Cyclists will return to drivers all German automobile-driving Blackberry users in exchange for the return of their CSC kit-wearing, mountain bike shoe-wearing Cervelo riders. As it happens, most of the former are also the latter, so they should all be relieved to be reunited with their respective bicycles/automobiles and to make their garages whole again. Cyclists will also return all UPS, FedEx, and DHL (the Nashbar of courier companies) truck drivers in exchange for all bicycle messengers and cycle-rickshaw drivers captured in battle. There have been some lonely bongs in the cyclists’ ranks, and cyclists can expect the celebratory sound of gurgling water to ring out well into the night upon the prisoners’ return.
(As discussed during last week’s secret summit, since cyclists don’t want the recumbent riders and triathletes back, and since drivers don’t want the operators of forest-green minivans and Lincoln Town Cars back, we’ll just drop them all off on Bikini Atoll. War is hell, but at least something good has come out of it for both sides.)
The Wilderness Theater
While a truce may have been struck on the roads, apparently the war rages on in the woods as the ATV riders and mountain bikers continue to fight. How many paintballs need to be fired, and how many suits of body-armor splattered, before this madness ends? Probably a lot. So let’s just agree to look the other way and let them burn themselves out in there. They’ll all get tired eventually.
Slurs
Drivers agree to stop calling all cyclists “Lance Armstrong.” It’s enough already. If a driver absolutely must call a cyclist something, the driver may call him “Wim van Est,” or else “Heidi Van de Vijver” if the cyclist is a woman or person of indeterminate gender. In exchange, cyclists agree not to get all self-righteous and “green” during altercations with drivers. This includes: demanding that the driver stop driving; lecturing the driver on his or her vehicle’s gas mileage; and blaming the driver for yesterday’s unseasonable cold spell or for global warming-related polar bear drowning deaths.
The Forming of an Ineffectual Body to Enforce These Provisions
To ensure that cyclists and drivers continue to live side by side in peace and mutual respect as they undoubtedly will, a weak and indecisive group will be formed to oversee and enforce the provisions contained herein. This group will consist of representatives from the various Cyclist and Driver subgroups. The following subgroups of cyclists have been identified and acknowledged to date: Roadies; Randonneurs; XC Mountain Bikers; Downhillers; Freeriders; Messengers; Fixed-Gear Freestylers; Commuters; That Guy At Work Who Has A Bike He Never Rides But Is Always Asking About Yours; Cyclocrossers; and BMXers. The following driver subgroups have also been identified: Idiots; Idiots from Jersey; Women Who Are Dwarfed By Their SUVs; People Who Don’t Go When The Light Turns Green Because They’re Too Busy Texting, Flavoring Their Coffee, or Checking Themselves for Pubic Lice; Delivery People; Lost Idiots from Jersey; and Taxi Drivers.
More subgroups will be added as they are identified.
Signed this Twenty-Fifth Day of March, 2008,
__________________
Cyclists
__________________
Drivers
Monday, March 24, 2008
post easter bunny
so i screwed up. with my lack of religion in my life i failed to realize that last sunday was easter (i guess having a friday off was a big clue)
i propose instead if it is nice that we all go for a slow but long road ride next sunday.
any takers?
i propose instead if it is nice that we all go for a slow but long road ride next sunday.
any takers?
Friday, March 21, 2008
training tomorrow?
question. is there training tomorrow.
my answer. yes.
but i guess we will see.....
until then
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=toVIKUDGd3Y&eurl=http://www.meandmybicycle.com/
my answer. yes.
but i guess we will see.....
until then
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=toVIKUDGd3Y&eurl=http://www.meandmybicycle.com/
Sunday, March 16, 2008
another training day gone
Sunday at 12pm is the next training session. we had one today...but i again showed up after the fact..so can not really comment.
in other news. We got some people going to Toronto for CMWC.
and some of our racers did darn well in the alley cat on saturday. (if you missed that one because A. you were smart and did not want to keep your hip bones and not fall or B. you did not want to dance with a cop (was it 1:5 or 1:3 were cop cars last night?) then look out for global gutz on april 20th.
so, good job to all of you and the rest of you (like ohh..i don't know...lets pick... shona) get your butt outside or on a bike seat and feel that lactic acid floooow baby!
Nutrient-rich shake
3 cups water (or 2 cups water and 1½ cups ice)
1 banana – electrolytes
½ cup blueberries – antioxidants
½ pear – natural sugar, fibre
1 tbsp hemp oil – essential fatty acids (3-6)
1 tbsp ground flax seeds – omega 3, fibre
2 tbsp hemp protein – complete protein
1 tsp (2.5 grams) maca, powdered form – sterols, alkaloids glucosinolates
1 tsp (2.5 grams) chlorella, powdered form – vitamin b12, chlorophyll, nucleic acids
Blend together until smooth.
Chocolate recovery pudding
¼ pound medium firm tofu – protein, calcium
1 banana – electrolytes
½ pear – natural sugar
½ tbsp hemp oil – essential fatty acids (3-6)
½ tbsp cocoa powder – natural flavour
sprinkle sea salt – sodium (lost in sweat)
Blend all ingredients together until reaching a consistent texture. I recommend a food processor.
in other news. We got some people going to Toronto for CMWC.
and some of our racers did darn well in the alley cat on saturday. (if you missed that one because A. you were smart and did not want to keep your hip bones and not fall or B. you did not want to dance with a cop (was it 1:5 or 1:3 were cop cars last night?) then look out for global gutz on april 20th.
so, good job to all of you and the rest of you (like ohh..i don't know...lets pick... shona) get your butt outside or on a bike seat and feel that lactic acid floooow baby!
Nutrient-rich shake
3 cups water (or 2 cups water and 1½ cups ice)
1 banana – electrolytes
½ cup blueberries – antioxidants
½ pear – natural sugar, fibre
1 tbsp hemp oil – essential fatty acids (3-6)
1 tbsp ground flax seeds – omega 3, fibre
2 tbsp hemp protein – complete protein
1 tsp (2.5 grams) maca, powdered form – sterols, alkaloids glucosinolates
1 tsp (2.5 grams) chlorella, powdered form – vitamin b12, chlorophyll, nucleic acids
Blend together until smooth.
Chocolate recovery pudding
¼ pound medium firm tofu – protein, calcium
1 banana – electrolytes
½ pear – natural sugar
½ tbsp hemp oil – essential fatty acids (3-6)
½ tbsp cocoa powder – natural flavour
sprinkle sea salt – sodium (lost in sweat)
Blend all ingredients together until reaching a consistent texture. I recommend a food processor.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
new team manager
just finished suiting up to ride for work today and thought before i leave would just say to everyone be safe and tell jon that we all are thinking of him. and if he wanted to be the kewel european guy who drives the little eco-car and yell things at us when we are riding he could have just asked and not gone to all this trouble of the hospitable. so i propose that jon is our manager until further notice. get better chief jon! and the rest of you lowly athletes, keep up the good work!
Sunday, March 9, 2008
The wind beneath my bib shorts
Go team Windbreaker! Well we finally have a name, I'll consider that an accomplishment. After an hour of breaking the wind (or blowing air from a couple of fans) along with the spinervals dvd my legs are spent and Im feeling great. I hope Aaron and Mark dont mind the litres of sweat I left behind in their living room... luckily the rug was beneath me to soak it all up. My favourite part of the training came right at the end when some dude came to pay Lep a visit, and was surprised to find me doing the "Squats" portion of the spinervals dvd in my bib shorts.
Hope there will be more participation next week! Either way, good on everybody for getting out of bed and making it down... I know for some folks rising before 2 pm on a Sunday is quite a feat in itself. Train hard everybody!!
oh, and here's an idea for the jerseys... (at the very least a can of baked beans somewhere on the jersey would be sweet... maybe we can get sponsorship from heinz??)
Hope there will be more participation next week! Either way, good on everybody for getting out of bed and making it down... I know for some folks rising before 2 pm on a Sunday is quite a feat in itself. Train hard everybody!!
oh, and here's an idea for the jerseys... (at the very least a can of baked beans somewhere on the jersey would be sweet... maybe we can get sponsorship from heinz??)
training vs daylight savings time
so at 12pm today the first training went down. looked awsome though i did not partake in it. hopefully one of the folk who actually got their shabang together will give the low down and maybe some photos????
good job to all who rode. the rest of us will have some catching up next sunday at 12.
p.s. don't forget alley cat on the 15th at west broadway community center. be there!
good job to all who rode. the rest of us will have some catching up next sunday at 12.
p.s. don't forget alley cat on the 15th at west broadway community center. be there!
Saturday, March 8, 2008
stand up and shout if you have a trainer
if you have a trainer, pick up the phone or grab a computer or use your jedi mind tricks to contact Benjamin before sunday.
and it is snowing so if you want to you can practise some trials or bmx moves inside for your bike handling skills (cause i heard the bmx and trials tracks might be up for racing this summer. )
and it is snowing so if you want to you can practise some trials or bmx moves inside for your bike handling skills (cause i heard the bmx and trials tracks might be up for racing this summer. )
Thursday, March 6, 2008
frozen lungs. good to know if training outside
from the conversation the other day on training in the cold vs training indoors: (http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-238-267-269-7442-0,00.html)
The human body is adapted, after surviving five major ice ages, to heat air quickly as it passes through the nose and mouth. In fact, the one legitimate lung condition that troubles runners in cold air doesn't come from the cold. In his 10 years of working with Nordic skiers at the U.S. Olympic Committee training facility in Lake Placid, New York, exercise physiologist Ken Rundell, Ph.D., found that as many as 50 percent would develop "skier's hack"--a transient cough--during or after training.
In subsequent research at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Rundell proved that the dryness of cold air causes the "airway narrowing," a term he prefers to the more common "exercise-induced asthma." To diminish this problem, Rundell suggests using a scarf that will trap your natural water vapor when you exhale, and then allow you to "recycle" it when you inhale.
I have just about given up on my quest when I receive an e-mail from one of Steve Bainbridge's running partners in Fairbanks. Owen Hanley, M.D., is a pulmonary specialist, so he knows lungs, and he has seen the frozen variety. "It's easy to develop frozen lungs," Hanley says. "You simply have to die in the icy outdoors, and then your lungs will freeze along with the rest of you."
So, it is possible for your lungs to freeze. Only not while you're alive and running.
next topic, team initiation and jerseys
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
meeting #1 minutes (finally, what the hell took her so long?!!??!)
Once upon a time there was a group of people who were tired of being leaderless and having to pay money to be walking ads. They finally decided to come together, for that is what bike people do, even though bikes usually take one or two people at max. This led to ideas, (...oh yap did i mention a drunken duck..who is the leader and mascot is Lucy..t..but back to the ideas..)here they are...
1. Pick a name (names have been listed, so pick on on sunday)
2. Sunday at 11:00 am will be training with the trainers in Mark's house (the Home house) It will smell but the team is willing to risk it for bonding time and really kewel bike spin videos.
3.Sponsors (by people like MEC OP, your mum and dad and Vegan) and Reg team name ($25 total ) will come after the name.
4 . To make sure you will get your lazy butts out, and follow through on some of that..."but why do i belong to a team if there is no team aspects to it"...you get a buddy. So in case the one time smell and pain fest was not enough, you get to have someone naggng your butt to make sure you are following your individual plan.
Buddy List
Ainsley and Ja
Shona and Team Jonny
Mark and Benjamin
Ellen and Erin
Jon and Susan
(you can change the teams around if you and your partner are not working out...just remeber there is a secret prize for the best team plus you will get better at the racing thing if you follow through with your plans...go figure eh?!)
that is about it. Big Thank you to Benjamin and Ainsley for letting us party it up at their house on Monday and get this ball rolling. c.u. all on Sunday. till then ride hard and i will be yelling something in german and looking like the following so i suggest this video might help you (along get you prepped for toronto this summer) http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=2SfWDi3QX8Y
1. Pick a name (names have been listed, so pick on on sunday)
2. Sunday at 11:00 am will be training with the trainers in Mark's house (the Home house) It will smell but the team is willing to risk it for bonding time and really kewel bike spin videos.
3.Sponsors (by people like MEC OP, your mum and dad and Vegan) and Reg team name ($25 total ) will come after the name.
4 . To make sure you will get your lazy butts out, and follow through on some of that..."but why do i belong to a team if there is no team aspects to it"...you get a buddy. So in case the one time smell and pain fest was not enough, you get to have someone naggng your butt to make sure you are following your individual plan.
Buddy List
Ainsley and Ja
Shona and Team Jonny
Mark and Benjamin
Ellen and Erin
Jon and Susan
(you can change the teams around if you and your partner are not working out...just remeber there is a secret prize for the best team plus you will get better at the racing thing if you follow through with your plans...go figure eh?!)
that is about it. Big Thank you to Benjamin and Ainsley for letting us party it up at their house on Monday and get this ball rolling. c.u. all on Sunday. till then ride hard and i will be yelling something in german and looking like the following so i suggest this video might help you (along get you prepped for toronto this summer) http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=2SfWDi3QX8Y
Monday, March 3, 2008
doh! (training on sunday)
minutes to come later. for now the deal is that you have to pick a name.
they are (if you think of more then just add them on)
1.prairie wind
2. the cutters
3. the outsiders
4.liquor and pills
5. white assed racers
6. yaweride
7. gear grinders
8. prairie velo
be at mark's house at 11:00 on sunday with your bike and your trainer (bring a fan if you can, please)
pray (to the bike gods) for benjamins bike
and i expect something like this from those of you coming on sunday (with bikes and the trainers)
they are (if you think of more then just add them on)
1.prairie wind
2. the cutters
3. the outsiders
4.liquor and pills
5. white assed racers
6. yaweride
7. gear grinders
8. prairie velo
be at mark's house at 11:00 on sunday with your bike and your trainer (bring a fan if you can, please)
pray (to the bike gods) for benjamins bike
and i expect something like this from those of you coming on sunday (with bikes and the trainers)
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