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??)
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