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Show you the money
August 6, 2015 § 31 Comments
I hope you'll put these two races on your calendar:
Why? Because it's your last chance in 2015 to win some good money in a SoCal crit. I'm donating $2,000 in cash primes for the 8/23 race, and an additional $2,000 in cash primes for the 8/30 race.
For the 8/23 race's P/1/2/3 event I'm donating eight $100 primes and one $200 prime on the next to last lap. Same for the 40+ masters men's race. Good luck prying those dollars out of Surf City's mouth!
For the 8/30 race, $1,000 in primes will be up for grabs in the P/1/2/3 event, and ditto for the women's P/1/2/3 race, with the elite women getting exactly the same prime payout as the elite men.
The cash primes, which will be cash, will all be paid out in cash.
I support Chris and Vera's efforts because year in, year out, they put on quality races that are easy to get to, that are run on safe courses, and that respect the efforts of the participants. Everyone doesn't get a medal but everyone gets treated with respect, at least if you consider getting called a "cupcake" respect.
As just one example of the way Chris listens to his customers, this year he gave the 50+ racers one hour races for virtually the entire year. As far as I know, that's the best in the country for our age category.
There is so much that is messed up about amateur bike racing that it's incredibly important to support the quality events that we do have. I wish I knew how to make bike racing more popular and more inclusive, but I don't.
What I do know is that beefy primes thrown in every few laps can up the ante, change the riders' calculations at varying points in the race, encourage attacking, and give a lot more riders the chance to win even though they may not win the race.
See you there!
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Race ready
June 15, 2015 § 14 Comments
When people sniffing around the edges of competitive cycling ask me about bike racing, I always tell them this: Preparation is key.
Not, of course, that there are any such people, but if there were that is what I would tell them.
And of all the critical preparations, none is more important than nutrition. Since Mrs. WM abandoned me for a 3-month orgy of Japanese food and home cooking courtesy of her mom, the world's best cook in a nation of great cooks, I have been making do admirably because nutritional preparation is key to major races like the CBR crit #6.
This is a major race even though, despite diligently promoting the hell out of it and shaking the crust off my teammates to get them to show up, CHRIS LOTTS STILL HASN'T COMPED A SINGLE FUGGIN' RACE ENTRY.
Anyway, I wanted to do well at this race and so I prepared nutritionally for it. However, the day before the race we were running low on food, well, actually we've been running low on food for a long time now since I've decided to boycott the supermarket until we eat through the stores that MRS. WM HAD LAID UP IN ANTICIPATION OF THREE NUCLEAR WINTERS.
This isn't a contradiction; we are running low on fresh foods but not on flour, for example. You can't have enough flour, and we don't not have enough.
So sure, it's going to be hard to eat all that flour, but not as hard as it will be to eat the twelve large cans of salt. So getting ready for the race meant preparing some flour and salt. Fortunately, the one thing Mrs. WM had left an ample supply of was Nestle chocolate chips. She bakes cookies once every three years, so we had twelve bags of chocolate chips in case someone needed to get diabetes over the weekend.
"Honey," I said before she left, "please don't go to the store and buy anything. Whatever it is, we have enough."
"Okay," she said.
Later that afternoon she came in, loaded down with grocery bags. "Did you just go grocery shopping?" I asked.
"I thought I asked you not to."
"I didn't buy any 'food' food."
"What did you buy?"
"Toilet paper and chocolate chips."
"But we already have twelve bags and I'm on a diet."
She smiled and unloaded the bags.
The night before the race I took out the flour and butter and sugar and salt and baking soda and vanilla extract and chocolate chips and pecans, and I made a giant bowl of cookie dough for dinner. It was getting late and I didn't feel like cooking because I wasn't sure how the oven worked so I took out the peanut butter and Nutella jars and the remainder of the ice cream and put it all on top of the cookie dough and ate a couple of big bowls and drank some milk and a lot of coffee and then I went to bed.
The next morning I didn't feel very good but I felt worse after breakfast, which was more cookie dough. For vegetables I sauteed an onion and some garlic and mixed it with Cheerios because I'd drunk all the milk the night before.
At the bike race I saw Prez, the most well prepared bike racer in history. He always gets to the race early to warm up, and this time was no exception. He'd arrived eight whole minutes before the race started, which is a long time for him. He was in a great mood. "Hey, Wanky," he said. "Guess what?"
"I forgot my bike bag and don't have any shoes. And my bike."
Pretty soon twelve people were scurrying around to find him a pair of shoes. No one would loan him any because his foot fungus is pretty infamous, but a Cat 5 who didn't know any better offered up a pair of New Bongasnoop Xtra Race Shoes. They were four sizes too big but Prez didn't care.
"Hey," he shouted to no one in particular, "does anyone have a helmet I can borrow?"
Someone did, but they knew that no helmet on Prez's head is safe, so we ended up going up and down the line of parked cars trying to find one that was unlocked. We did and borrowed a really nice $400 POC aero helmet. "I'll put it back as soon as I'm finished," Prez said as we checked to make sure the sheriff patrol wasn't around.
Back at the starting line with one minute to go Prez yelled to the onlookers. "Does anyone have a bike? I forgot my bike."
He was in fact the only fully kitted out, aero-helmeted guy on the line without a bike. The same Cat 5 guy who just wanted to be nice gave Prez his $10,000 carbon bike with full carbon wheels and 100% carbon. "Be careful!" he said.
"That's my middle name!" Prez said, pleased that he'd be able to wreck someone else's machine this weekend.
With two laps to go Prez, who is the key lead-out man for Surf City's train, roared up through the pack to take control of the lead-out and give his boss, Charon Smith, another lightning bolt pull to victory. "Dammit, Prez!" Charon shouted, "you're doing it again!"
Prez had boxed in his boss, forced him into the curb, and was about to take out his front wheel. "Sorry!" he said, but not before the sound of screaming, cursing, and twelve broken bikes rent the air. A loose wheel arced overhead, temporarily blotting out the sun. Prez stepped on the gas, took out four people, ran over a pylon, hit a small child on the sidewalk, bounced off a tree, and flipped into a tent. The poor Cat 5's bike shattered into a billion pieces at the poor kid's feet.
Prez staggered to his feet, shading his eyes to watch Charon hit the jets and win his 67th victory of the season. As the poor Cat 5 cried inconsolably, sobbing about the five years it had taken him to save up for his bike, Prez stripped off the fungal shoes and patted him on the back. "Don't worry sonny," he said, "next time you just need to be a a little bit better prepared."
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She told two friends, and she told two friends, and …
December 10, 2014 § 14 Comments
There are three kinds of people with racing licenses.
- Racers. They race pretty much every weekend.
- Sorta racers. They race a few races each year.
- Fakesters. They have all the stuff, but none of the "stuff."
If you promote bicycle races, aside from your obviously miserable financial judgment, your need for public abuse, and the strange satisfaction you get out of dealing with angry/stupid/selfish people, you have one really big need on race day, and it's that people show up and race. For the most part, we expect you, the promoter, to promote your race. We'll come if we feel like it, maybe.
This is a stupid model. Sure, the promoter should do his best to get people to race. He's a fuggin' promoter, for fugg's sake.
But full fields have as huge a benefit to bike racers as they do to promoters. Full fields increase prize money. They increase sponsorship. They increase spectatorship. And most importantly, they help the promoter turn a profit, which encourages him to keep living in a tent and to promote more races next year. It's my belief that fuller fields rather than emptier ones can be accomplished by the bike racers themselves, and in 2015 I'll be giving my theory a shot. Here it is:
People who fit into category #1 above are the backbone, the meat and potatoes of racing. Guys like Brauch, Tinstman, Wimberley, and Charon are just some of the riders who show up week in, week out, with no prodding or encouragement. They live to race. More about them later.
People who fit into category #3 we can forget. They will never race. It doesn't matter why; the fact that they're on a race team, that they have team race gear, that they love to talk and read about bike racing is irrelevant. They would rather do a hundred group rides, team training camps, and century rides, than sign up for a single 45-minute USA Cycling crit. Forget them.
People who fit into category #2 are the rest of us, and we hold the key to successful turnout on race day. Sorta racers make annual race calendars, target certain races, and do lots of actual training. Sorta racers are sorta fit in January and sorta wrecked by late April. Sorta racers have no trouble putting in 15-20 hours a week on the bike, but lots of trouble doing more than a handful of races. Sorta racers have detailed excuses for not racing on race day, even when they've planned to race. Sorta racers think a lot about racing early in the season, and focus on kiddie soccer games, "work," honey-do's, "the high cost of racing," safety, and butt pimples as reasons to stop thinking about racing later in the season.
In short, we sorta racers are fence sitters. We wanna, but most of the time we don't.
The difference between a felony conviction and staying at home is often the difference between a buddy saying "Let's do it!" and not. Same goes for racing. As any salesman knows, the customer has to be asked to buy. And as any good salesman knows, "No, thanks" is simply an opportunity to ask again with greater skill and persuasiveness.
My best race in 2014 resulted from Derek B. asking me to go race with him. I didn't really want to go, it was the last race of the season, I'm not good at crits, at age 50 I don't belong in the 35+ superman category, I was tired from Saturday's Donut Ride, I didn't have a good set of race wheels, the entry fee was too high, the race was too short, and my butt pimples were suppurating.
All of those objections were overcome by the simple act of being asked because being asked to go race your bike with a friend is flattering, and it also puts you on the spot. The super excuse of butt pimples sounds awesome when you're talking to yourself, but not so great when you have to mouth it to someone, especially someone you respect, as a reason for not lining up and actually using your $10k in gear and your 25 hours a week of profamateur preparation.
In short, the people who are committed to going to a race can boost race attendance by sending out three, or five, or ten emails, or even more outrageously by actually telephoning, or even more extremely by asking a pal face-to-face to sack up and go race together. If you're one of the people who's a dependable ironhead, make sure you ask a couple of other people to go race, and for dog's sake don't limit it to your teammates.
Why ask non-teammates to race? Because one of the reasons that guys who aren't on big teams don't race is because they hate rolling alone against the big teams and they need extra motivation to go out and get crushed. Again. Asking non-teammates shows that you value their presence, and it stimulates smaller teams to get their act together. A powerful motivator for people to race is having a rider complain to his teammates that he's the only fuggin' one in the race, so please come out and help.
Another reason that sorta racers don't race is they simply forget. I'm going to this weekend's CBR race because yesterday, on a training ride, I asked EA Sports, Inc. what he was doing this weekend. "I'm racing, dude. And so are you." It wasn't a question. It was an order, but it was also a reminder as I'd completely forgotten about the race.
If you're one of the sorta racers who sorta races, on the days when you're actually committed, make sure you ask several friends to go race with you. This locks YOU in when it comes time to scratch the b.p.'s and prevents you (hopefully) from bailing at the last minute, and it will encourage one or two other riders to join you. (Hint: Asking others to race with you can also involve sharing rides, splitting gas fees, and saving money!! If it's a CBR race in LA, it means having someone to ride over to the race with.)
Finally, if you're the leader of a team, have you reached out to every single rider via email and encouraged them to line up? Have you made two or twelve phone calls to the sorta racers who have hogged all your swag and been conspicuously absent on race days? No? Well, get callin'!
So, does it work? I think it does. I've sent out about ten emails and had one buddy confirm that he's in. His comment? "I'm not very fit, but it's been over a year since anyone asked me to go race, so, hell yeah."
If you tell two friends, and he tells two friends, and he tells two friends, well, who knows? The "problem" of declining race participation might simply vanish.
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How to race crits (better)
November 20, 2014 § 7 Comments
Our team leader sent us all a link to an article about how to improve our crit racing. Here's the link.
Now, our team leader knows what he's talking about because he's won a ton of big crits, so it makes sense that he would send us advice about how we can win, too. Unfortunately, his optimism is clouded by the massive cumulonimbus of reality. The only people who are ever going to win crits are the ones who already win crits. Instead, I wish he would have sent us an article about crit strategies for people who are hopeless and who have zero chance of ever crossing the line first.
I googled "tips for hopeless crit racing wankers" and got no hits except for a profile on some dude named Chris Lotts. So I thought I would type up some hopeless wanker crit racing tips and share them with you, because let's face it, you ain't ever gonna fuggin' win a crit. Ever.
- Don't fuggin' crash. This is the number one rule for crit racing. If you're a winner, you will sometimes fall off your bicycle because you have to take risks, bang bars, check timber, and see who's testosterone is the stinkiest. Everyone else doesn't have a fuggin' chance, especially you, so don't go home with your nuts covered in road rash. When you have to choose between taking the aggressive line or falling back 30 places, you sure as fugg better cower, brake, and give way. "How come your balls are all skinned up?" is not the question you want to have to answer when you get home.
- Don't fuggin' sprint. Are you in the top five coming through the last turn? Of course not! You're a fat fuggin' wanker who's lucky to be in 65th place with his epidermis intact. Sit the fugg up and coast. Let the other knuckleheads battle it out for 64th place, 'cause one of them is going down. On his face. And his name is Prez.
- Don't fuggin' attack. You know who attacks? Winners, that's who. Chubby, stub-legged wankers on $10k bikes are not going off the front for more than 10 yards, and if they do it's on Lap 3. Go to the fuggin' back of the bus where you belong. Even if you did get into a break, you'd be shelled. Instantly. Save your energy for the Internet chat forums after the race where your handle is "CritStud" and nobody fuggin' knows you're a greasy-fingered Cheetos addict with a saggy ass and a Cat 5 racing license.
- Don't fuggin' wait. You know the idiot who burns all his matches drilling it at the front in the first four laps? Sure you do, because that idiot is YOU. Let's face it, when the screws get turned on the last five laps you'll be so far back that your girlfriend will need a fuggin' telescope to see your saggy ass. So, the time to do the glory pull is NOW. Early and often, then sink to the rear and soft pedal. All you need to be able to say is "Didja see me?" and get a cool head-of-the-field glory shot by Danny Munson or Phil Beckman. Fuggin' winning.
- Panic like a motherfugger. When the race starts you should already have crapped four times and be nervouser than a tuna fish at a sushi cooking class. Veer like a crazyfugg from right to left, bounce off other racers like a pinball, charge the fuggin' inside line on crowded, tight turns, and scream at everyone like you've got Ebola and can't wait to share it. It's the only way you'll move up. To 55th.
- Complain about the fuggin' prize list. So what if you finished 84th? Let the fuggin' cheapass promoter know that if he'd been giving out hundred dollar bills instead of old socks you would have lapped the field. If he's giving out hundred dollar bills tell him he's a sellout fugghead for commercializing our pure sport and you finished 98th as a protest. If he punches you in the face it's because you fuggin' deserved it.
- Tell the officials they fuggin' suck. Even a genius like you can't win when the game's rigged, and the game-riggers are the fuggin' cheatfugg officials. Tell 'em! Remind the zebras about how when you rode bandit in the Ol' Scratchynuts Century where there were NO fuggin' USA Cycling officials, you finished in the money, and her name was Zelda.
- Make the winners fear your fuggin' gap. So what if you corner like a battleship with a broken rudder? There's no reason the winners should benefit from that. Hustle towards the front and do your patented full-brake-plus-gap-out pedal stroke into the turn, opening up 12 bike lengths that everyone else has to sprint around. Are they mad? Do they yell and bitch? Does it make them tired? Sucks to be them, fuggers.
- Bounce your fuggin' check. The d-bags promoting your event don't deserve to eat, so always pay for your race with a bad check. They'll never turn it over to the D.A., and the joke's on them for taking money from a guy like you with road rash on his nuts anyway. It's more fun than banditing a century, because the promoter has to pay a bad check fee to boot. Sucks to be him, fugger!
- Piss in the fuggin' bushes. Just because the fuggin' maroon promoter paid to have 15 port-o-potties doesn't mean you have to use them. Whip out Mr. Business when the bag is full and whizz anywhere you want, especially if it's near little kids or first time wives who've come to see their man race. If they think it's a family affair, they got another think coming, especially when they see what a big ol' handful of veined-up purplish manly wood looks like while they're feeding animal crackers to the kids and grandma.
Anyway, I hope this helps all you aspiring crit racers out there. Good luck!
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Water the roots
November 8, 2014 § 6 Comments
This post is directed only to people in Southern California who meet one of the following requirements:
- You have a racing license.
- You have a fancy road bike, in which fancy > $1,500.
- You have a cyclocross bike.
- You have at least one Strava KOM.
- You troll Facebook on Sunday afternoon to find out the local race results.
- You follow professional race results.
- You have a power meter.
- You know what "WKO+" is.
- You like to "mix it up" on group rides.
- You have recurring fantasies of riding Merckx off your wheel high in the Alps, with your sixth consecutive Tour victory on the line.
If any of the above applies to you, please take note that on Sunday you will have 2 (two) opportunities (Möglichkeiten) to actualize your inner Walter Mitty in an actual bike race. These 2 (two) opportunities (Möglichkeiten) are outlined in detail below.
Möglichkeit A: Udo SPYclocross
This race has everything. If you've never raced cyclocross before, or if you haven't yet gotten your feet wet this season, no race on the calendar is better than this one. In addition to fantastic organization, a challenging course, and the state's best competition, Lake Hodges is a bottle's throw from some of the best breweries in America. Cyclocross, because it's bike racing, is hard. But it's also fun — there are actual crowds, they actually cheer for (or at) you, and the only attitude is the attitude of "let's have fun, and let's race."
Udo Heinz, to whom the race is dedicated, was struck and killed by a bus on Camp Pendleton almost two years ago. Udo was the epitome of a good rider. He tirelessly worked to organize and execute the best 'cross races on the calendar, he was a safe and considerate cyclist who always looked out for the other guy, and he was the kind of person to whom others turned for help and advice.
If you have never raced 'cross before, make November 9, 2014, your first race. It won't be your last.
Möglichkeit B: SPY Upgrade Crit p/b CBR & Chris Lotts & Vera!
So let's say that you don't have a 'cross bike or don't know anyone who has one, which, frankly, is complete bullshit. But let's say that we accept your bullshit because we're friends and that's what friends do. I know for a fact that you want to race your bike, deep down you really do — and there's no safer, better place to do it than in one of Chris & Vera's upgrade races. The race will go off on time. Bullshit dangerous riding will not be tolerated. Winners and near-winners will be glorified on a podium, and you will have the satisfaction of having actually raced your bike.
Well, there's actually a third option for Sunday: Pull on your fancy riding outfit, wheel out your fancy racing bicycle, and pal around with your buddies at the coffee shop talking about how you wish there were more race opportunities in SoCal. See you there. At the race!
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If you wanna get to heaven (you gotta raise a little … )
September 25, 2014 § 14 Comments
"Manslaughter and I are going for a slow spin around the hill. Leaving in five minutes."
I read the text and started changing. I caught them in downtown Redondo, flipped it, and we started around the peninsula. It was 9:30 AM on a Wednesday, and too early on-a-day-that's-not-a-Friday to contemplate drinking. The chatter was the same as always. Derek talked about losing weight. Manslaughter giggled. I wondered what I was going to blog about.
Manslaughter began talking about Santa and Jesus, and how he didn't believe in either. Then Derek turned and said, "That's fine, being an atheist and all, but then what exactly is your plan for getting into heaven? You don't cruise across the line into heaven in the middle of the pack, sucking wheel. Getting into heaven is a time trial, and Jesus better be in your support vehicle."
"Not to mention your water bottle," I added.
Manslaughter giggled and suggested taking a "dirt road."
"What kind of dirt road?" I asked.
"A flat one," he lied.
Derek and I agreed since we were on our road bikes and, hell, we had done the BWR, right? How bad could it be? Manslaughter turned off the pavement to the left of where Tink had once splatted and where Toronto's daughter had hit the seam in the road and launched into the curb and where Little Sammy Snubbins had flipped into oncoming traffic at 30. Ah, memories.
The dirt was fine until it turned up, then up again, then massively up. Manslaughter, currently ranked #23 in the nation for mountain biking, and therefore a never-miss descender and climber, misjudged a turn, fell off his bicycle, and ended up looking like a pubic crab on its back wiggling a very tiny bike in the air. We laughed and passed him, trying and failing to run over his neck.
Derek slowed, having lost too much weight the night before, and I raced by. I kept him behind me by weaving all over the steep and narrow trail. I'm not sure why he kept saying "motherfucker," but he did. After a while we caught a rider on horseback.
"That horse is pretty sketchy," I thought. "If I sneak past it I bet it freaks and maybe kicks and kills Derek and I win to wherever the fuck this climb goes." Manslaughter had been dropped a long way back, which was fine, except that he was the only one who knew the route.
I picked a tight passing lane and went to shoot through it. The horse sensed my presence and looked like it was going to turn away from me, which was fine, until I realized the pivot was actually an aiming maneuver. The last thing I saw was its rump rising up to make room for its rear legs to clear and then lash out.
The next thing I knew, I wasn't on a hot dirt road in Palos Verdes anymore. It was cool out and cloudy, but I was above the clouds. I saw a big pair of gates. I could see through them. There was Prez, wearing a halo and what appeared to be a peacock suit made of lycra, winking at me and holding a pair of new Michelin tires over his head with no video camera. There was Erik the Red, waving. Those were the only two people I knew.
Then I saw Charon manning the gates. He had a big book in front of him. "Wanky! You signed up for the wrong race again! Better head on down to your proper category."
I felt myself falling. Now it was hot again, really hot, but at least I saw more people I knew. Hell, I knew everyone. But there was a black river of steaming hot energy gel to cross in order to get to them. I climbed into the boat waiting on the shore as a hooded guy started to row me across. "Brad?" I asked. "Brad House? Is that you?"
"Naw," said the oarsman. "He went to somewhere really hot and miserable and filled with sinners. He's in Texas."
I debarked and got into a long line. "Where do I sign up for the 50+?" I asked.
Lane, who happened to be standing next to me, said, "I don't know. I'm here for the Strava competition."
"Who the hell is in charge around here?" I demanded. Soon enough I got to the sign-in table.
A huge three-headed angry Marine wearing an FBI men-in-black suit and Blues Brothers SPY shades glowered at me. "What the fuck do you want, cupcake?"
"Chris?" I said. "Is that you?"
"Who were you expecting to meet? Mitt Romney? You just signing up for eternity? Only $10 for the second eternity."
"There's been some mistake," I said. "Manslaughter's the atheist. He's the one who wanted to suck wheel on Jesus. I'm always at the front. How do I get back up to Prez and those tires?"
"Ha, ha, cupcake," Chris laughed as he gave me my number. "You've just been entered in the BWR from Hell."
I shuddered. There in the distance stood MMX with a whip and a giant purple card, beating a drum that was slightly out of tune. He sneered at me. "What's wrong, Patsy? There's only 8 billion miles of dirt through a live volcano this time."
"No!" I screamed. "Noooooooooooooooo!"
Suddenly I was lying on my back and the horse lady was saying, "He didn't give me three feet when he tried to pass. He's lucky poor old Sukey didn't kill him."
Manslaughter and Derek were splitting a bag of sport beans waiting for me to wake up. "If you help me wipe up the blood," I said to them, "I'll have Mrs. Wankmeister pick up a case of Racer 5 and make us some quesadillas with mushrooms and salsa."
It sounded like a good idea to Derek and Manslaughter. Suddenly it was okay to drink before noon on a not-Friday-day. And we did.
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Is Strava killing bike racing?
May 24, 2014 § 76 Comments
I'll be the first to admit that the patient was never particularly robust, but in 2014 there has been a noticeable decrease in the number of racers who line up on the weekend. At one of the best and toughest road races all year, Vlees Huis in Bakersfield, there was an incredibly tiny lineup despite this being one of the best organized, safest, and most challenging races on the calendar.
Plus they fuggin' had beer. Now, when bike racers won't show up to a bike race where it's hotter than Beyonce doing the nasty with Heidi Klum and you get to slake your post-race heat prostration with cold, locally brewed beer, the Dogs have gone crazy.
We will leave aside for a moment the obvious: if Fields had ever heard you weren't going to race your bike because it was "too hot" or "too cold" or "too rainy" or "too dangerous," he would have kicked you off the team, repo'd your kit, and made you give back all the beer you had drunk. We will also leave aside for a moment that the "weather" in SoCal is the most wussified, gentle, bike-friendly weather in the continental United States.
Many factors may be at play besides the general cowardice, tenderness, and babyfication of modern SoCal bike racers, but there are only so many absentees you can blame on an angry spouse, the cost of entry fees, the fear of quadriplegia, and the general wussdom of all the riders who said they couldn't do Vlees Huis because it was "too far to drive." [Check the mileage sometime when you live in Houston and have signed up for the Fort Davis Stage Race for a bit of perspective on "too far to drive."]
Flapping of the gums
The other day I got into an argument about whether some guy was the best climber in the South Bay. Back in the day this would have been a relatively easy argument to resolve. The guy who had won more hilly road races, or the guy who was always at the front on the long climbs would be crowned the champ, even more beer would be drunk, and we'd find something else to argue about.
But this time my adversary pulled out a shocking counter-argument: his Strava KOM's. A guy who's done a handful of hilly road races and has consistently gotten shelled on the tough climbs — or who hasn't even showed up — maintained that his sexy Strava performance on segments as short as 200 meters meant that he was somehow a really good climber.
What the hell is going on here?
It used to be that the best riders were the ones who won bike races. Rahsaan Bahati, I thought, was the best bike racer around because he's won the most races. Charon Smith, Phil Tinstman, Thurlow Rogers, Mark Noble, and guys like them, I thought, were the best old guy bike racers around because they've won the most races.
It would never have occurred to me that a person might consider himself excellent in some aspect or other of competitive cycling based on his Strava KOM's.
But you know what? Lots of riders do.
They choose three or four carefully selected races each year, they do a weekly group ride, and they do the vast bulk of their "head-to-head" competition on Strava. Will someone please tell them that if it's on Strava and you're by yourself, it's not head-to-head? No matter how many times you self-dial, you're still just doing yourself.
The race of truth
Every bike race is a race of truth because the fastest rider always wins. For many, that's a downer because there's only one winner. You can't go home and tell yourself that you're at the top of the leader board of 50+ troglodytes with a BMI of 200. Worse, when you lose a bike race you don't get any trophies or crowns on your iPhone.
Strava perfectly satisfies the urge to achieve what I call DIP — distinction, improvement, praise — it's an urge that resides in all of us, particularly, it seems, those of us who cycle. Bike races don't provide much DIP for most participants, even with the dozens of age/gender categories per event. Instead, they provide proof of what we all instinctively know about ourselves but wish wasn't true: MOP — mediocre, overweight, pudknocker.
In any contest between DIP and MOP, DIP will always win out. Ride your bike and get a trinket every time beats ride your bike and get your spirit shattered every time, especially when the shattering may also include collarbones and carbon fiber.
Don't be a DIP-shit
This Monday Chris Lotts will put on his Memorial Day Crit in Dominguez Hills. The Barry Wolfe Grand Prix, Death Valley Stage Race, and State ITT Championships will also happen this weekend.
If you're in SoCal, I hope you'll make an effort to attend at least one of these races. If you're in L.A., I really hope you'll at least make it to the Memorial Day Crit. If you can spare 50 minutes to analyze all your weekly rides on WKO and Strava, you can lug your ass out for a one-hour race at Dominguez.
Guys like Chris promote races year in and year out. It's a gratifying job for them in that they play an integral role in the sport that they love, and it's a blast getting to deal with overfull port-a-potties at the end of the day. But it's a huge amount of work and expense, and when "racers" who live in the area choose to spend their time on Strava digitally satisfying themselves rather than competing in organized events, it eventually kills off the event. The margin on bike races is tiny, to put it mildly.
Maybe as a Stravasturbator you think that's fine, and I suppose if your idea of being an accomplished racer is 0's and 1's endlessly strung together to make an image on a computer that makes you look tougher than Eddy Merckx, that's okay. I suppose if it's more fun to wear $500 worth of kit riding $7000 worth of bike to compete against your "friends" on Strava than it is to ride against your mortal enemies in a real bike race, hey, to each his own.
But let's not confuse sitting at your stupid computer and clicking "kudo" with racing your fuggin' bike.


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Graduate Student Symposium on Ultra-Cold Gases
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|Superfluidity in ultracold gases
Gretchen Campbell, JQI/University of Maryland
The study of superfluidity has a long and rich history. In Bose-Einstein condensate, superfluidity gives rise to a number of interesting effects, including quantized vortices and persistent currents. In this seminar I will give an introduction to superfluidity in ultracold atoms, including a discussion of the critical velocity and the spectrum of elementary excitations in superfluid systems.
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Andrew Daley, University of Strathclyde
Recently, the possibility to control and measure AMO systems time-dependently has generated a lot of progress in exploring out-of-equilibrium dynamics for strongly interacting many-particle systems. This connects directly to fundamental questions relating to the relaxation of such systems to equilibrium, as well as the spreading of correlations and build-up of entanglement. While ultracold atoms allow for exceptional microscopic control over quantum gases with short-range interactions, experiments with polar molecules and chains of trapped ions now also offer the possibility to investigate spin models with long-range interactions. I will give an introduction to the recent developments in this area, illustrated with two examples: (i) the possibility to measurement entanglement for many itinerant particles with ultracold atoms in optical lattices, and (ii) new opportunities to compare dynamics with short and long-range interactions, especially using systems of trapped ions, where it is possible to control the effective range of interactions.
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Doerte Blume, Washington State University
Few-body physics has played a pivotal role in quantum mechanics from the very beginning. Prime examples include the helium atom and molecular hydrogen. The realization of ultracold atoms has opened up new avenues for exploring few-body quantum mechanics. Three-body processes, for example, are instrumental in understanding the stability of large ultracold atomic samples. This talk will summarize recent theoretical and experimental ultracold few-body studies. The talk will conclude with a list of open questions.
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The properties of quantum gases made of ultra-cold atoms strongly depend on the interactions between atoms. These interactions lead to condensed-matter-like collective behavior, so that quantum gases appear to be a new platform to study quantum many-body physics. In this seminar, I will focus on the case where the atoms possess an internal (spin) degrees of freedom. The spin of atoms is naturally larger than that of electrons. Therefore, the study of the magnetic properties of ultra-cold gases allows for an exploration of magnetism beyond the typical situation in solid-state physics where magnetism is associated to the s=1/2 spin of the electron. I will describe three specific cases: spinor Bose-Einstein condensates, where spin-dependent contact interactions introduce new quantum phases and spin dynamics; large spin magnetic atoms where strong dipole-dipole interactions lead to exotic quantum magnetism; large spin Fermi gases.
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Since the Lord of the Rings saga ended with 2003's Return of the King, the big screen has been tragically devoid of Hollywood fantasy. A few would-be imitators have come and gone (Uwe Boll's In the Name of the King acting as the final nail in the coffin), and young adult fiction adaptations, most tween riffs on LOTR anyway, have found more success with romantic tales or small-scale dystopian adventures. The megaplex isn't much of a home monsters and magic and sword fights and British accents.
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I have always been fascinated with the fact that the English cartographers of the 18th century elected to declare that the two hemispheres of the world intersect at Greenwich. At this time London was the world's largest city and most important but this was really audacious. The amazing fact is that the world accepted it and still agrees by it.
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A veteran school bus driver in Sarasota, Fla., was arrested last week and charged with two counts of computer pornography and one count of distribution of obscene material to a minor. Daniel W. Pursley, 37, was arrested Wednesday, April 5, in the parking lot of a Sarasota restaurant. Sheriff's officials say he was lured there by an undercover officer who posed as a 15-year-old boy during Internet chats with Pursley, according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Pursley has driven a school bus for the School District of Sarasota County for six years and, according to school officials, was an "exemplary employee." According to the arrest report, Pursley met "Dennis," the undercover detective, in an America Online chat room. He allegedly e-mailed the undercover officer a photo of himself naked and invited him to engage in sexual acts.
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NEW YORK - The U.S. stock market ended slightly lower Tuesday after a choppy trading session. Major indexes moved between small gains and losses for much of the day, then drifted lower in the last hour.
Traders were discouraged by a surprisingly large drop in consumer confidence in February. The worst drops were in areas affected by the extreme cold weather and storms of the past few weeks.
Also, while Home Depot reported better-than-expected results, it was affected by the recent winter storms.
The Dow Jones industrial average lost 27.48 to close at 16,179.66. The S&P 500 fell 2.49 to 1,845.12. The Nasdaq composite fell 5.38 to 4,287.59.
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NEW YORK - JPMorgan Chase plans to eliminate 8,000 jobs this year as its mortgage business shrinks and as the giant bank aims to control costs.
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The new job cuts include reductions in the bank's mortgage and retail banking businesses. The bank also cut 16,500 jobs last year in those areas.
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Friend has a 2002 mazda B2300 (ford ranger). turns over but wont start, was told it might be a fuel problem. i checked the relay button @ the passenger kick panel, the underhood fuse, and the relay. all seem ok. when the key is turned to "Start" i dont hear ANYTHING coming from the fuel tank area. no click, no buzz, nothing. am i in the right direction? is there something else i should be checking first?
On the Explorers it's sometimes the fuel pump relay which, at least on the older ones, could be found in the big black fuse box under the hood. Conveniently they had an identical relay right next to it that could be switched for testing. By relay button I assume you mean the inertia switch that shuts off the fuel pump if you crash. You should be able to test that with an ohmmeter for continutity. I realize you said you checked the relay but you also called the switch a relay so I apologize if I'm telling you what you already did.
I sure sounds like a fuel problem but did you check for spark? Some Fords will turn over and not start due to a low battery.
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im going to try the easiest thing- jump starting it. the battery is a 6 yr old motorcraft, so its likely.
if thats not the case, is there a schrader valve under the hood that i could check for fuel and pressure? would a regular tire gauge work?
LMAO A tire gauge might get kinda messy. I hope there is a schrader valve. I think I'd start yelling at Ford if there wasn't. I bought a fuel pressure gauge at Harbor Freight and it didn't cost very much, probably less than $10.
If your battery is really, really bad jump-starting might not work. If it doesn't I'd suggest disconnecting the battery and using a known good one.
I just recently had a similar problem on my '02 Explorer. That is, it would crank but wouldn't start. If the car would sit a while then it would start. This happened two separate times.
After a tow to the dealer they found no computer codes. They did point out that my battery was in poor shape. I replace the fuel pump relay, but it failed once after that so it wasn't the problem.
Then, I replaced the battery. It hasn't failed since.
I now believe that my failure mode was this: I would turn the key rapidly from off to crank, and this didn't allow the fuel rails to pressurize completely before the cranking started. Once the cranking started, my weak battery couldn't put out enough voltage to run the fuel pump (during cranking). This is my theory, anyway.
I learned a lot about troubleshooting after it had failed the second time:
The first thing is to turn the ignition on and listen for the fuel pump. It comes on for about one second when the ignition is first turned on (in order to pre-pressurize the fuel rails). I can open the front passenger window and hear its buzzing while it's momentarily on. It's quiet but very distinctive.
Try turning the key to "ignition" but wait a few seconds. Then, crank it. If it's your battery then this may allow it to start.
In my car, now, I have: Voltmeter (to check battery voltage and other points) DC current clamp meter (to check the fuel pump current at the wires that attach to the emergency cutoff switch near the passenger kick panel) Fuel pressure gauge (to connect to the schraeder valves at the fuel rails) Timing light (to verify that I have spark plug voltage)
So, I'm loaded for bear. I dare this thing to fail again!
Good luck with your problem.
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In a fit of boredom at LHR waiting for my BMI flight to DUB, I bought a book called "The Flying Book" by David Blatner (ISBN 0-140-29787-1) and in it there are some truly mad statistics.
i.) More people die in the US in six months in cars than in aeroplanes in the last 100 years!
ii.) If air travel were as safe as driving a car, a jet carrying 120 pax would crash without survivours every day of the year!
iii.) In 1998 in the US 2.5 million Americans died. 700,000 heart disease. 500,000 cancer. 50,000 medical screw ups in hostpitals and more than 20,000 in car crashes. But in the same year not a single fatality from a US based airline. Even in 1994 with a higher than average crash rate, 239 people died.
iiii.) In 1995 Americans took 505 million car trips of over 100 miles resulting in the death of 22,000 people. The same year U.S carriers flew 8.1 million flights and two crashes resulting in the death of 166. If the average car had 2 people and the average flight 150 there were 22 deaths per million car trips and only 0.14 deaths per million flights therefore making air travel 157 safer than driving (<---MAD!!!).
The highest risk is on short haul in devolping nations where the odds drop to 1 in 500,000. This equates to one day in 1300 years!!
Finally, using less "damp" statistics. The US Bureau Of Transportation Statistics calculate the the fatalities per million miles travelled are:- Car 9.3. Trains 5. and for commercial flights 1.22. Therefore, flying is eight times safer than driving and twice as safe as the train!
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Starship Operators could have been a great space opera / sci-fi adventure if it was 50 episodes long, and had less humor. The basic idea is good but the way it is presented on screen makes you feel like it's a 10 year old playing with his plastic space marines. Which makes sense if you take into account who made it.
- Animated by J.C. Staff, the studio that exists to make shitty adaptations full of retarded fan service.
- Directed by Watanabe Takashi, who has made nothing but silly stuff, such as Slayers, Ikki Tousen, and Shakugan no Shana.
- Based on the novels by Mizuno Ryou, whose only other known work is the most mediocre Record of Lodoss War.
The story is about a team of youths fighting some generic evil oppressive empire with their ship, while the whole thing is broadcasted on interstellar channels so the kids can have funds in their war thanks to the sponsors. This is a good twist to the otherwise "magic money" trope that is so heavy in most teen adventures and basically it's what makes the show seem more real than the average corny mediocrity out there. "Hey look, they don't find money and food on space trees; they are paid for making a tv show." And indeed, it is highly ironic and interesting how they are part of a real war and at the same time they need to make the whole thing enjoyable for the masses by looking all perky and interesting. Heck, even the otherwise out-of-place mini skirts all the girls are wearing are in this case excused as in-story fan service for the in-story male viewers. Smart meta-trick is smart.
So the basic idea of the show is to see it as a space adventure that has turned into a mass entertainment reality show. The war is real, the characters act as they feel like, and money still rules the world. From this description alone you are presented with one hell of an original and well-thought out idea. Too bad it wasn't given the proper duration and directing…
The first thing anyone will wonder about the anime is its power balance. On one side we have an interstellar empire, armed with thousands of advanced warships. On the other we have some rookies with a single spaceship. How the hell do they manage to keep defeating the enemy? Oh sure, you might as well go asking why the good robot always wins in mecha shows, when the enemy army outnumber it by a few million times. If it was THAT silly then it wouldn't strike as weird, but here we have a somewhat more realistic setting. It is not supposed to take things so childishly and instead provide a better sense or pragmatic approach. Heck, it clearly shows how many try to exploit the whole event, from firms, to politicians, to military that again makes you believe it is far more realistic than the Power Rangers. And that is the problem; it just pretends it is; the whole reality show/social-political aspect is used very superficially as nothing more than a fancy background decoration.
If there is something good in all that, is how each episode has something new to offer, or to present it from a different angle. It is not predictable, as it keeps introducing and expanding its ideas; as superficial as they may eventually be. There is simply no time to develop them past the introduction, and the final episode feels like they had to end an arc that would normally need dozens of episodes, in just 15 minutes. Politicians nag, generals revolt, the people rebel, shit blow up, and before you know it, it all ends. And along with it, the attempts to build up romances and interesting friendships all go to waste, with barely being told what happens to them afterwards. Well thanks for nothing.
See the series past that and you have yourself the usual stereotypical / idealistic / overhyped / awkward with one another's feelings youths, piloting a spaceship that never seems to take enough damage or casualties to matter. Most of them are cute girls, doing silly stuff, and blowing ships for the lulz. They get a nice fleshing out but it is trashed by the completely light-hearted presentation. And seriously; those mini skirts just fizzle away all respect you may have had for them without them.
Somewhat standard for its time. They do their job nicely but don't stand out for their aesthetic details, or the machinery, or the character figures, or the soundtrack. The action scenes are actually very well done, even if it all boils down to laser beams blowing stuff up.
It could have been good but it is handled like a parody of sorts and ends in a rush, leaving you with bad impressions. Not recommended.
And now for some excused scorings.
General Artwork 1/2 (generic)
Character Figures 1/2 (generic)
Backgrounds 1/2 (basic)
Animation 1/2 (basic)
Visual Effects 1/2 (basic)
Voice Acting 2/3 (corny but fitting with the feeling of the series)
Music Themes 2/4 (average)
Sound Effects 2/3 (ok I guess)
Premise 2/2 (interesting)
Pacing 2/2 (every episode is about something new)
Complexity 2/2 (rich context)
Plausibility 0/2 (none)
Conclusion 0/2 (very rushed)
Presence 1/2 (generic)
Personality 1/2 (typical)
Backdrop 0/2 (practically zero)
Development 0/2 (rushed and superficial)
Catharsis 0/2 (none)
Historical Value 0/3 (none)
Rewatchability 1/3 (low because of too little plot)
Memorability 2/4 (the concept is very good but the presentation lacks)
Art 0/1 (looks typical)
Sound 0/2 (sounds meh)
Story 1/3 (the concept is very good but the presentation lacks)
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