Qinghai!

Marian said:

Being non-important in the general scope of things (especially when
compared to oh, say, everyone else in the room except the waitresses)
and being female meant that I wasn't called upon to drink too much
alcohol. I escaped with a mere seven shots of baijiu (sorghum based
white lightning). At lunch. On a work day. Thank god for lenient
bosses. It will take dinner, no one needing to drive anywhere
afterwards, and a proper liver killing drinking session to determine
my actual placement on the alcoholic leaderboard but I'm apparently
doing pretty well. This is very important.

With the food on the table and the alcohol flowing very freely the
actual purpose of the lunch in Sanya became obvious. This year's Tour
of Hainan wants to have 108 riders participate in a 20km time trial in
the prologue in Sanya. Would it be okay to close one of the major
thoroughfares for say two hours give or take? In the US you file
permits and applications. In China you get the relevant officials
drunk. All the same really.

As we were dispersing in the parking lot I drummed up my courage. It
would have been easier if it had just been me and Mr.[censored] but in a
group of people many of whom spoke at least a little English and all
of whom were important it was a little harder. Mr.[censored] still doesn't
quite get that there are people who might consider the 18 hour
workdays of an international stage race 'fun' but he understands that
I am such a person. The seven shots of baijiu helped enormously in
drumming up my courage. "Would you please introduce me to the Qinghai
race?"

Good to hear you can LIVEDRUNK in China. Is baijiu exported? We all
need courage. Can it double as a floor cleaner?

Enjoy the race. Keep an eye out for blue coolers.

Bob Schwartz

In article <[email hidden]>,

Bob Schwartz said:

Marian said:

Being non-important in the general scope of things (especially when
compared to oh, say, everyone else in the room except the waitresses)
and being female meant that I wasn't called upon to drink too much
alcohol. I escaped with a mere seven shots of baijiu (sorghum based
white lightning). At lunch. On a work day. Thank god for lenient
bosses. It will take dinner, no one needing to drive anywhere
afterwards, and a proper liver killing drinking session to determine
my actual placement on the alcoholic leaderboard but I'm apparently
doing pretty well. This is very important.

With the food on the table and the alcohol flowing very freely the
actual purpose of the lunch in Sanya became obvious. This year's Tour
of Hainan wants to have 108 riders participate in a 20km time trial in
the prologue in Sanya. Would it be okay to close one of the major
thoroughfares for say two hours give or take? In the US you file
permits and applications. In China you get the relevant officials
drunk. All the same really.

As we were dispersing in the parking lot I drummed up my courage. It
would have been easier if it had just been me and Mr.[censored] but in a
group of people many of whom spoke at least a little English and all
of whom were important it was a little harder. Mr.[censored] still doesn't
quite get that there are people who might consider the 18 hour
workdays of an international stage race 'fun' but he understands that
I am such a person. The seven shots of baijiu helped enormously in
drumming up my courage. "Would you please introduce me to the Qinghai
race?"

Good to hear you can LIVEDRUNK in China. Is baijiu exported? We all
need courage. Can it double as a floor cleaner?

Yes...LIVEDRUNK heartily endorses the Chinese Method of getting a road
racing permit.

Quoted message said:

Enjoy the race. Keep an eye out for blue coolers.

And men in black! Now we must add them to the list.

Congrats on the wonderful new deal. I think that having a cultural
attache such as yourself will be especially useful at this race,
considering that it will include a lot of non-Chinese riders who will be
very glad for an interpreter and fixer who speaks their language, as it
were 🙂.

--
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

In article
<[email hidden]>
,

Marian said:

Being non-important in the general scope of things (especially when
compared to oh, say, everyone else in the room except the waitresses)
and being female meant that I wasn't called upon to drink too much
alcohol. I escaped with a mere seven shots of baijiu (sorghum based
white lightning). At lunch. On a work day. Thank god for lenient
bosses. It will take dinner, no one needing to drive anywhere
afterwards, and a proper liver killing drinking session to determine
my actual placement on the alcoholic leaderboard but I'm apparently
doing pretty well. This is very important.

The sorghum white lightning I get is called
Mou Tai Chiew. It is 53 %. Brewed in a town called
Moutai, Renhuai county, Kweichow province. I type
this off the label. Good stuff.

Congratulations on your appointment. Best wishes.

--
Michael Press

In article
<[email hidden]>,
Bob Schwartz <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Marian said:

Being non-important in the general scope of things (especially when
compared to oh, say, everyone else in the room except the waitresses)
and being female meant that I wasn't called upon to drink too much
alcohol. I escaped with a mere seven shots of baijiu (sorghum based
white lightning). At lunch. On a work day. Thank god for lenient
bosses. It will take dinner, no one needing to drive anywhere
afterwards, and a proper liver killing drinking session to determine
my actual placement on the alcoholic leaderboard but I'm apparently
doing pretty well. This is very important.

With the food on the table and the alcohol flowing very freely the
actual purpose of the lunch in Sanya became obvious. This year's Tour
of Hainan wants to have 108 riders participate in a 20km time trial in
the prologue in Sanya. Would it be okay to close one of the major
thoroughfares for say two hours give or take? In the US you file
permits and applications. In China you get the relevant officials
drunk. All the same really.

As we were dispersing in the parking lot I drummed up my courage. It
would have been easier if it had just been me and Mr.[censored] but in a
group of people many of whom spoke at least a little English and all
of whom were important it was a little harder. Mr.[censored] still doesn't
quite get that there are people who might consider the 18 hour
workdays of an international stage race 'fun' but he understands that
I am such a person. The seven shots of baijiu helped enormously in
drumming up my courage. "Would you please introduce me to the Qinghai
race?"

Good to hear you can LIVEDRUNK in China. Is baijiu exported? We all
need courage. Can it double as a floor cleaner?

Ask for Moutai in the Chinese neighborhood liquor stores.
Opaque white bottle, red label, 53%.

Quoted message said:

Enjoy the race. Keep an eye out for blue coolers.

--
Michael Press

Bob Schwartz said:

Marian said:

Mr.[censored] still doesn't
quite get that there are people who might consider the 18 hour
workdays of an international stage race 'fun' but he understands that
I am such a person. The seven shots of baijiu helped enormously in
drumming up my courage. "Would you please introduce me to the Qinghai
race?"

Good to hear you can LIVEDRUNK in China. Is baijiu exported? We all
need courage. Can it double as a floor cleaner?

Some baijius are exported, generally the higher end stuff like
Moutai. Most are not. Unlike Polish vodka, for example, this is not
because they taste so good that there isn't enough left for export but
instead because no one (and I mean no one) would actually want to buy
Erguotou given the choice to drink anything else (including
strychnine).
And although baijiu would do a very handy job of cleaning the floor it
is not recommended as a floor cleaner due to the fact that it has a
quite unpleasant lingering odor which can take days to go away (sort
of like the flavor, come to think of it).

Quoted message said:

Enjoy the race. Keep an eye out for blue coolers.

The first three times I read this through I was thinking I needed to
watch out for blue -colors- and couldn't figure out what shades of
blue had to do with anything.

....

Does LIVEDRUNK have it's own rubber band things like livestrong? I'm
thinking something in a nice mottled chartreuse and pink would be
good.

-M

In article <[email hidden]>,

Marian said:

Bob Schwartz said:

Marian said:

Mr.[censored] still doesn't
quite get that there are people who might consider the 18 hour
workdays of an international stage race 'fun' but he understands that
I am such a person. The seven shots of baijiu helped enormously in
drumming up my courage. "Would you please introduce me to the Qinghai
race?"

Good to hear you can LIVEDRUNK in China. Is baijiu exported? We all
need courage. Can it double as a floor cleaner?

Some baijius are exported, generally the higher end stuff like
Moutai. Most are not. Unlike Polish vodka, for example, this is not
because they taste so good that there isn't enough left for export but
instead because no one (and I mean no one) would actually want to buy
Erguotou given the choice to drink anything else (including
strychnine).
And although baijiu would do a very handy job of cleaning the floor it
is not recommended as a floor cleaner due to the fact that it has a
quite unpleasant lingering odor which can take days to go away (sort
of like the flavor, come to think of it).

Quoted message said:

Enjoy the race. Keep an eye out for blue coolers.

The first three times I read this through I was thinking I needed to
watch out for blue -colors- and couldn't figure out what shades of
blue had to do with anything.

...

Does LIVEDRUNK have it's own rubber band things like livestrong? I'm
thinking something in a nice mottled chartreuse and pink would be
good.

-M

http://fawnjotters.blogspot.com/2005/08/livedrunk-wristband.html

Brown. I actually suggested one time that a LIVEDRUNK wristband would
consist of one of those six-pack beer-can plastic ring thingys, but a
company went and did one in black. Unfortunately, their web page doesn't
appear to work now.

--
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

Ryan Cousineau said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Bob Schwartz said:

Marian said:

Being non-important in the general scope of things (especially when
compared to oh, say, everyone else in the room except the waitresses)
and being female meant that I wasn't called upon to drink too much
alcohol. I escaped with a mere seven shots of baijiu (sorghum based
white lightning). At lunch. On a work day. Thank god for lenient
bosses. It will take dinner, no one needing to drive anywhere
afterwards, and a proper liver killing drinking session to determine
my actual placement on the alcoholic leaderboard but I'm apparently
doing pretty well. This is very important.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

With the food on the table and the alcohol flowing very freely the
actual purpose of the lunch in Sanya became obvious. This year's Tour
of Hainan wants to have 108 riders participate in a 20km time trial in
the prologue in Sanya. Would it be okay to close one of the major
thoroughfares for say two hours give or take? In the US you file
permits and applications. In China you get the relevant officials
drunk. All the same really.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

As we were dispersing in the parking lot I drummed up my courage. It
would have been easier if it had just been me and Mr.[censored] but in a
group of people many of whom spoke at least a little English and all
of whom were important it was a little harder. Mr.[censored] still doesn't
quite get that there are people who might consider the 18 hour
workdays of an international stage race 'fun' but he understands that
I am such a person. The seven shots of baijiu helped enormously in
drumming up my courage. "Would you please introduce me to the Qinghai
race?"

Quoted message said:

Good to hear you can LIVEDRUNK in China. Is baijiu exported? We all
need courage. Can it double as a floor cleaner?

Yes...LIVEDRUNK heartily endorses the Chinese Method of getting a road
racing permit.

It certainly was quite effective. I've heard about it but never
before been in on a high power business luncheon and it was quite
interesting to see the way in which everything was light banter until -
after- the person with authority was happily red faced.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Enjoy the race. Keep an eye out for blue coolers.

And men in black! Now we must add them to the list.

Hmmm, the bike shop manager has a grey and black jersey with _no_
advertising on it that he sometimes wears in Hainan's laughable excuse
for cold weather. Do you think he could be an orange juice supplier?

Quoted message said:

Congrats on the wonderful new deal. I think that having a cultural
attache such as yourself will be especially useful at this race,
considering that it will include a lot of non-Chinese riders who will be
very glad for an interpreter and fixer who speaks their language, as it
were 🙂.

Qinghai has been going on for enough years now that I'm sure their
translator corps is more experienced and educated in bike related
things than the translators for last year's Tour of Hainan. Also the
commisaires that I've met all speak excellent English (though some of
them at the Hainan race didn't tell me until a non-Chinese speaker was
also present).

-M

Whoa Marian, that'll be cool.
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Bob Schwartz said:

Is baijiu exported? We all
need courage. Can it double as a floor cleaner?

Yes and yes, though for the second watch out for the fumes -- they are
toxic.
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Marian said:

And I'm going as a staff member to the Tour of Qinghai Lake!

Very cool. Let us know if you score any pot chinois.

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Marian said:

Bob Schwartz said:

Marian said:

Mr.[censored] still doesn't
quite get that there are people who might consider the 18 hour
workdays of an international stage race 'fun' but he understands that
I am such a person. The seven shots of baijiu helped enormously in
drumming up my courage. "Would you please introduce me to the Qinghai
race?"

Good to hear you can LIVEDRUNK in China. Is baijiu exported? We all
need courage. Can it double as a floor cleaner?

Some baijius are exported, generally the higher end stuff like
Moutai. Most are not. Unlike Polish vodka, for example, this is not
because they taste so good that there isn't enough left for export but
instead because no one (and I mean no one) would actually want to buy
Erguotou given the choice to drink anything else (including
strychnine).
And although baijiu would do a very handy job of cleaning the floor it
is not recommended as a floor cleaner due to the fact that it has a
quite unpleasant lingering odor which can take days to go away (sort
of like the flavor, come to think of it).

Quoted message said:

Enjoy the race. Keep an eye out for blue coolers.

The first three times I read this through I was thinking I needed to
watch out for blue -colors- and couldn't figure out what shades of
blue had to do with anything.

...

Does LIVEDRUNK have it's own rubber band things like livestrong? I'm
thinking something in a nice mottled chartreuse and pink would be
good.

One of the polyethylene rings from a six-pack holder.

--
Michael Press

Quoted message said:

Marian said:

And I'm going as a staff member to the Tour of Qinghai Lake!

Very cool. Let us know if you score any pot chinois.

What is pot chinois?

-M

Marian said:

What is pot chinois?

The Chinese version of pot Belge?

Quoted message said:

Marian said:

What is pot chinois?

The Chinese version of pot Belge?

If you mean what I think you mean, then I think the 20%-40% less
oxygen than normally available at sea level and elevations ranging
from a mere 1,771m to 3,880m[1] will be more than enough to have me
happily buzzed at what is quite literally the highest bike race in the
world. All natural, no additives necessary.

-M

[1] figures lifted from the official website at tdql.cn

"Marian" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Marian said:

What is pot chinois?

The Chinese version of pot Belge?

If you mean what I think you mean, then I think the 20%-40% less
oxygen than normally available at sea level and elevations ranging
from a mere 1,771m to 3,880m[1] will be more than enough to have me
happily buzzed at what is quite literally the highest bike race in the
world. All natural, no additives necessary.

-M

[1] figures lifted from the official website at tdql.cn

http://www.cyclingnews.com/results/1999/nov99/copacabana99.html

The "highest bicycle race of the world" (on average) - the Doble Copacabana
in Bolivia will be held for the fifth time, starting on the 5th of November
and running for 3 days (4 stages). The stages will be contested at heights
of between 3,600 m and 4,200 m - roughly between 1 and 2 km higher than the
Galibier, folks!
The competitors will start at Paz, (3.600m), finishing in El Alto (4000m),
in the suburbs of the Bolivian capital. Stage 2 will lead them around the
highest lake in the world, Lake Titicaca, while the third day will bring
back them to Paz. The total distance is 305 km, and the altitude never drops
below 3,800 m after day 1.

The conditions will be quite harsh at this altitude: the lack of oxygen,
almost no humidity, sudden variations in temperature, with the sun being
very strong. In addition the roads are in fairly ordinary condition. The
organizer, Eduardo Perez-Iribarne, has also limited the teams to four riders
apiece, making it very hard to control the race.

The various teams riding this event have generally had approximately fifteen
days of acclimatisation to sort out their hematocrits. If they did not do
this, the sudden change to altitude could be disastrous, EPO
notwithstanding!

The team probably best equipped to deal with this type of race would be the
Colombians, who are used to training at around 2000 m.

As far as I know it is still an annual event. And the Bolivians like to chew
on coca leaves.

"Carl Sundquist" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

The various teams riding this event have generally had approximately
fifteen days of acclimatisation to sort out their hematocrits. If they did
not do this, the sudden change to altitude could be disastrous, EPO
notwithstanding!

The team probably best equipped to deal with this type of race would be
the Colombians, who are used to training at around 2000 m.

As far as I know it is still an annual event. And the Bolivians like to
chew on coca leaves.

That coca is probably not as bad for them as this stuff:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6131132

Greg
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