Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
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Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby Alex Simmons/RST » Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:15 pm
What are the things weekend warriors *can* do?
Open slather. Go.
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Postby foo on patrol » Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:38 pm
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Postby clackers » Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:40 pm
Starting at the back of the 210km section as we did, he said that compared to the 250km athletes who left earlier we were obviously slow, but "at least capable of holding a conversation".
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby skull » Fri Oct 26, 2012 6:16 pm
legs and face.slian wrote:Not shave
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby Strawburger » Fri Oct 26, 2012 6:39 pm
Not care about optimal pacing for the duration of the ride
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby zero » Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:16 pm
After the first 20 minutes the draft stops mattering, but you remain largely surrounded by riders of your pace.
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby JustJames » Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:42 pm
Maybe.
Perhaps.
...and just to get the snobbery back under control, if you're not being paid to ride your bike, you're a weekend warrior. You can dress it up anyway you like, feel superior to the guy who rides in trainers and regular shorts but realistically, you're closer to him than to being a pro cyclist. Regardless of what your Strava, PowerTap, Garmin and Polar devices tell you.
Another thing a weekend warrior can do:
Choose when not to ride.
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby skull » Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:33 pm
Awesome,toolonglegs wrote:Cool... I get payed to ride my bike about 2 months per year... maybe more. I am officially not a weekend warrior .
I have been paid a couple of times as well, I have also been paid to do fun runs. Super pro.
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby toolonglegs » Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:38 pm
Yeah but after I have been payed to ride my bike I have to wash another 20 or 30 bikes as well at the end of the day... see pro life ain't all that great .DaveOZ wrote:Wash your own bike.
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Postby yarravalleyplodder » Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:44 pm
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby skull » Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:51 pm
I just had to be in the Army to get paid to ride, stuff washing other peoples bikes.toolonglegs wrote: Yeah but after I have been payed to ride my bike I have to wash another 20 or 30 bikes as well at the end of the day... see pro life ain't all that great .
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby ausrandoman » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:25 pm
I've ridden to the Coongie lakes to to see the sunset, ridden through the bamboo forests of Nara, ridden 450 km in a day, ridden across the Atlas Mountains on donkey tracks, been kissed by a girl riding next to me, watched Jupiter set as I pedalled over Cotton's Pinch in the wee small hours, ridden three days in wet clothes in an Atlantic gale, had a cup of tea with Sir Hubert Opperman, towed a fifty strong peloton through the fields of Normandy, cracked the sheet ice on my tent to fit it on my pannier rack up in the Pilot Wilderness, ridden in 40 degree headwinds and ridden on days when the air was like champagne. Most importantly, I've had a helluva good time.
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
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