Laterne Rouge

That dude is my new hero.

-Smurf

D. Ferguson said:

"When I got dropped on Stage 8 we still had 200 hilly kilometers to
go. I knew it would be hard to finish in the time cutoff. When you get
dropped it's harder to ride with the same motiviation. I knew the odds
were against us but I wasn't going to quit. So I told myself that we
were acutally in the break-away off the front. That's how I stayed
focused on taking good pulls. On the last climb, the fans started
walking back down the road. They were all over the place. We had to
zigzag and even walk a bit to get through, but we did it." (46 minutes
and 5 seconds back)

Iker Flores
Last place finisher TdF '05

One though mutha.

Anyone remember that Jan-Michael Vincent movie, Tribes? This from IMDB:
Plot Outline: A Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the
fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a
hippie who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military's way of
doing things.

JMV would "go to his happy place" while they were attempting to break
him during basic training. While he was holding two buckets of sand at
arm's length during some exercises he pictured himself frolicking in a
flower-strewn meadow with his girlfriend. All of the other guys were
dying and JMV had this weird little smile and kept those buckets high.

I think Flores was doing that same thing.

R

On 7 Sep 2005 10:51:58 -0700, "RicodJour" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

D. Ferguson said:

"When I got dropped on Stage 8 we still had 200 hilly kilometers to
go. I knew it would be hard to finish in the time cutoff. When you get
dropped it's harder to ride with the same motiviation. I knew the odds
were against us but I wasn't going to quit. So I told myself that we
were acutally in the break-away off the front. That's how I stayed
focused on taking good pulls. On the last climb, the fans started
walking back down the road. They were all over the place. We had to
zigzag and even walk a bit to get through, but we did it." (46 minutes
and 5 seconds back)

Iker Flores
Last place finisher TdF '05

One though mutha.

Anyone remember that Jan-Michael Vincent movie, Tribes? This from IMDB:
Plot Outline: A Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the
fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a
hippie who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military's way of
doing things.

JMV would "go to his happy place" while they were attempting to break
him during basic training. While he was holding two buckets of sand at
arm's length during some exercises he pictured himself frolicking in a
flower-strewn meadow with his girlfriend. All of the other guys were
dying and JMV had this weird little smile and kept those buckets high.

I think Flores was doing that same thing.

R

I remember that movie but had forgotten what it was called. He taught
the other recruits how to "meditate" and hold the buckets up too and
the DI went off.

That was a good movie. Jan-Michael Vincent was a superstar who just
faded away. Wasn't it drugs or something?

Anyhow, Iker Flores' story is, I'm sure, just one of many like it in
the TdF. It's one thing to go out and ride hard if you are putting up
good times but if you know you are just trying to make the cutoff....
it would be so easy to give up. And his idea about pretendint to be in
a break-away is great stuff.

Like I heard someone say 'you don't ride the tour, you survive the
tour'.

D

In article <[email hidden]>,

D. Ferguson said:

That was a good movie. Jan-Michael Vincent was a superstar who just
faded away. Wasn't it drugs or something?

Here's a bit of info:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001821/bio

http://www.weht.net/WEHT/Jan_Michael_Vincent.html

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tanx,
Howard

Butter is love.

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

Howard Kveck said:

Here's a bit of info:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001821/bio

Ah! Airwolf.

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E. Dronkert