back from Vancouver

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

I'm back...

Welcome back. Ouch on the road rash but at least you are OK
otherwise. Hope this doesn't become a Hellment thread.

In article <vD_bc.186629$po.998032@attbi_s52>,

Claire Petersky said:

I'm back, and there's only about 800 new messages to read
in the newsgroup.

Ryan C. was kind enough to loan me his bike while I was up
there. I rode with his bicycling team, but a third of the
way into an 80 km ride (50 miles for us 'Mericans) I
accidentally jammed the chain while in the small-small
position (I'm used to 27 gears to choose from, rather than
12) while I was already a bit behind. I got it loose, and
we sprinted to catch up to the pack. My right foot wasn't
clipped in, and while distracted by that, I managed to
take quite a tumble into a debris-strewn road.

To Claire's credit, the Pinarello has a rather eccentric
gear arrangement: DT shifter left, Sora brifteur right.
Unfamiliarity and fatigue are tricky things.

Quoted message said:

I tore the handlebar tape, but Ryan's Pinarello otherwise
survived. Ryan was very kind, offered me his tweezers to
pull the gravel embedded in my flesh as well as much
sympathy. I opened up the ouch pouch I carry and managed
to minimally clean up, and we rode back to where his car
was parked. He was going to take me to a clinic downtown,
but instead I went to some place local.

The bike was unscathed. I took it home, put some electrical
tape over the bar tape, added aerobars, and went out and
rode the Pacific Populaire this morning. By the clever use
of the tactic "get on the fastest wheel in the ride and for
heaven's sake, hang on!", I managed a sub-3-hour 100km ride.

But fatigue is always a killer. As you can imagine, I spent
a good third of this ride in a fairly cooked state. This led
me to, at one point, run into the rear wheel of the ride
leader, because I was at the front, trying to work, trying
to follow wheels, and way too anaerobic to notice I needed
to get to the back of the pack and rest. Despite being
eerily similar to the incident that took down Claire (and on
the same bike, no less), I got lucky and stayed up.

Quoted message said:

So, home and soon to be back in the saddle again!

Bikes are like horses, you--wait, they're nothing like
horses. That's why I like bicycles.

Get well soon,
--
Ryan Cousineau, [email hidden]
sfu.cawiredcolaOpen ↗ President, Fabrizio
Mazzoleni Fan Club

Sun, 04 Apr 2004 20:55:55 GMT, <vD_bc.186629$po.998032@attbi_s52>,

Claire Petersky said:

Zoot is more -- well, I don't know how to describe it. Less
crusty? in real life, than he is on-line.

Crusty is for people with road rash, dear. (|8-/

Claire is undoubtedly the tallest woman I've ever met on-
line. She informed me that Petersky is pronounced like
bumblebee.

We even agreed that eternity is sorta like so much
skewered broccoli.
--
zk

In article <vD_bc.186629$po.998032@attbi_s52>,

Claire Petersky said:

So, home and soon to be back in the saddle again!

Hi Claire,

I would've liked to meetcha and maybe treat you to a
cinnamon roll over at Solly's, but work & travel has kept me
trapped in a world of obligations and hafta-do's over the
last few weeks (and that trend is continuing even now). But,
maybe next time, or next time I go down Seattle way. I sort
of "co-pathically" feel your gladness to get back home.
Getting back home after travel can evoke such a wonderfully
strange feeling, eh?

The relatively new AmTrak resurrection of the old Great
Northern run would be a kinda fun & nostalgic pilgrimage.
When I was a kid I used to visit relatives in Everett,
taking the Great Northern to Bellingham and meeting them and
getting picked-up there. It was a great way to get a taste
of train travel -- especially for kids, since the trip isn't
too long. I got to see the Seattle World's Fair that way.

Sorry to hear about your injury. If you don't care for
Tegaderm, Spenco "2nd Skin" might do the trick for you.
At any rate, next time you're in a drugstore you can
always look at the instructions, etc. on the box and see
if it sounds more suitable for you. Anyway, I hope you
heal well and soon.

cheers, Tom

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