RAAM -warmup

Ceasar Valeroso said:

[stuff]

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ceasar.html

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E. Dronkert

Ceasar Valeroso said:

The first 300 miles is usually just the warmup, after the 300 mile mark
people start getting out of the saddle and try to get some speed on and some
gaps. Remember this is not some small 80 mile crit loop, this is Coast to
Coast racing, where it takes 8 hours on a jet airliner to get back to your
car. Now I know it really takes some mind expansion to grasp it all, but
you can think big, or stay thinking small. Your choice.

That's a pretty slow flight nonstop. Flight time should be about 6 hours.

Steve

PS. What's an 80 mile crit loop?
PPS Gaps? I thought drafting was forbidden?

--
Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
http://www.dentaltwins.com
Brooklyn, NY
718-258-5001

Ceasar Valeroso said:

The first 300 miles is usually just the warmup, after the 300 mile
mark people start getting out of the saddle and try to get some speed
on and some gaps. Remember this is not some small 80 mile crit loop,
this is Coast to Coast racing, where it takes 8 hours on a jet
airliner to get back to your car. Now I know it really takes some
mind expansion to grasp it all, but you can think big, or stay
thinking small. Your choice.

Maybe that is the problem, if they ran a 1000-lap criterium with a 3-mile
loop RAAM-distance races would get more respect. Or you could do 12000
laps on a track. As a bonus prize for the track event, anyone not dying of
boredom by lap 7000 or so automatically qualifies as a mission specialist
for the first manned spaceship to Mars.

--
Bill Asher

William Asher said:

Ceasar Valeroso said:

The first 300 miles is usually just the warmup, after the 300 mile
mark people start getting out of the saddle and try to get some speed
on and some gaps. Remember this is not some small 80 mile crit loop,
this is Coast to Coast racing, where it takes 8 hours on a jet
airliner to get back to your car. Now I know it really takes some
mind expansion to grasp it all, but you can think big, or stay
thinking small. Your choice.

Maybe that is the problem, if they ran a 1000-lap criterium with a 3-mile
loop RAAM-distance races would get more respect. Or you could do 12000
laps on a track. As a bonus prize for the track event, anyone not dying of
boredom by lap 7000 or so automatically qualifies as a mission specialist
for the first manned spaceship to Mars.

Why not just make it a 3,000 mile indoor roller race? That way, the
spectators don't have to wait 8 minutes for their favorites to come
around again.

bill wrote:

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Quoted message said:

Why not just make it a 3,000 mile indoor roller race? That way, the
spectators don't have to wait 8 minutes for their favorites to come
around again.

Too fredly.

--
Bill Asher

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Quoted message said:

Ceasar Valeroso said:

The first 300 miles is usually just the warmup, after the 300 mile
mark
people start getting out of the saddle and try to get some speed on and
some
gaps. Remember this is not some small 80 mile crit loop, this is Coast
to
Coast racing, where it takes 8 hours on a jet airliner to get back to
your
car. Now I know it really takes some mind expansion to grasp it all, but
you can think big, or stay thinking small. Your choice.

That's a pretty slow flight nonstop. Flight time should be about 6 hours.

Steve

It's RAAM. They had to stop for stop signs.

Ceasar Valeroso said:

Now I know it really takes some mind
expansion to grasp it all, but you can think big, or stay thinking
small. Your choice.

I'm thinking kinda small:
http://galerija.jurerobic.net/albums/raam2004ag91/RAAM2004_10593.sized.jpg

Quoted message said:

Ceasar Valeroso said:

Now I know it really takes some mind
expansion to grasp it all, but you can think big, or stay thinking
small. Your choice.

I'm thinking kinda small:
http://galerija.jurerobic.net/albums/raam2004ag91/RAAM2004_10593.sized.jpg

If Robic had known about Lantiseptic he wouldn't have had to have crotch
surgery. Also it looks like he should have been using some sun block.

"Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Quoted message said:

http://galerija.jurerobic.net/albums/raam2004ag91/RAAM2004_10593.sized.jpg

Helmet rules suck.

Robert Chung said:

Ceasar Valeroso said:

Now I know it really takes some mind
expansion to grasp it all, but you can think big, or stay thinking
small. Your choice.

I'm thinking kinda small:
http://galerija.jurerobic.net/albums/raam2004ag91/RAAM2004_10593.sized.jpg

Is that a name tag? Last request?

Steve

--
Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
http://www.dentaltwins.com
Brooklyn, NY
718-258-5001

Mark & Steven Bornfeld said:

PS. What's an 80 mile crit loop?

A real [censored] to get to the wheel pit?

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

In article <[email hidden]>,

Curtis L. Russell said:

Mark & Steven Bornfeld said:

PS. What's an 80 mile crit loop?

A real [censored] to get to the wheel pit?

Who cares? The free lap is worth it.

--
Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:14:23 GMT, Ryan Cousineau <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Curtis L. Russell said:

Mark & Steven Bornfeld said:

PS. What's an 80 mile crit loop?

A real [censored] to get to the wheel pit?

Who cares? The free lap is worth it.

Got a point.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

RAAM is for pussies. RAAAB (Ride Across America And Back) is where it's
at. Don't be that guy who gets to the turn-around point and calls his
wife to come pick him up.

Ceasar Valeroso said:

The first 300 miles is usually just the warmup, after the 300 mile mark
people start getting out of the saddle and try to get some speed on and some
gaps. Remember this is not some small 80 mile crit loop, this is Coast to
Coast racing, where it takes 8 hours on a jet airliner to get back to your
car. Now I know it really takes some mind expansion to grasp it all, but
you can think big, or stay thinking small. Your choice.

Each of the RAAM competitors coached by me gets an extensive program of standing
start training, focusing on the explosive ATP-dominated acceleration needed to
firmly position oneself as a serious competitor right from the the RAAM start line.

RAAM isn't won at the start, but it can be lost there!

Dan

In article <[email hidden]>,

Dan Connelly d_j_c_o_n_n_e_l@i_e_e_e.o_r_g said:

Each of the RAAM competitors coached by me gets an extensive program of
standing
start training, focusing on the explosive ATP-dominated acceleration needed
to
firmly position oneself as a serious competitor right from the the RAAM start
line.

RAAM isn't won at the start, but it can be lost there!

Dan

You know, this could come in handy at the end, too, when it comes down to a
two-up sprint and the riders slow to a crawl playing cat and mouse.

--
tanx,
Howard

The poodle bites, the poodle chews it.

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

Howard Kveck <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Dan Connelly d_j_c_o_n_n_e_l@i_e_e_e.o_r_g said:

Each of the RAAM competitors coached by me gets an extensive program
of standing
start training, focusing on the explosive ATP-dominated acceleration
needed to
firmly position oneself as a serious competitor right from the the
RAAM start line.

RAAM isn't won at the start, but it can be lost there!

Dan

You know, this could come in handy at the end, too, when it comes
down to a
two-up sprint and the riders slow to a crawl playing cat and mouse.

Only to get subsumed by the hard-charging peloton. That must suck when
that happens.

Oh wait, the peloton was just a hallucination. Never mind.

--
Bill Asher