Philly sucks

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InTransit said:

Carl states that his family had given him only mild praise, and that he
should be getting on with his life, something that so many of our parents
echo about spending a lot of time cycling, no matter if its recreational or
professional. Carl's dad is quoted as saying Carl wasted five years of his
life, and he said that's not pleasing to hear, but especially hard I am sure
when you are a national champion. My parents actually cut out and saved the
article from the first race I won, but in time, my parents echoed the same
sentiments just from even spending a lot of time doing the challenges put on
every year by organzations nationwide.

You cannot account for parents. I saw Kathleen Battle's
mom in a TV documentary on Kathleen. Mom did not have a
good word to say for K. who is a world class soprano.
Only thing to be said is "They could have been worse."

--
Michael Press

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"Carl Sundquist" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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http://s203.photobucket.com/albums/aa53/cyclefan_2007/

I was reading on older book for the first time the other day. It's a
trackie
book called No Brakes. In it is a chapter about Carl Sundquist, and the
subject title is the Pursuit. I didn't know you were a four time national
track champion, and a five time national team pursuit champion. That is
indeed very impressive, (1985-1992). Silver medal - 1994 World
Championships
in the team pursuit. Gold Medal in the Pam American games in the team
pursuit. Set a national record in the Masters team pursuit, 4000 meters.
The
article said Carl grew up in Indy where a cousin of mine lives and used to
frequent the velodromes. He used to tell me a few stories from the old
days
of that era.

We've been trying to get Carl to be the oldest man to ever ride a track.

InTransit said:

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

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Great, another stocker.

Carl doesn't have a world championship, I do. The best he's
got is a silver. I lord that over him all the time. When do
I get a stocker?

Bob Schwartz

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Michael Press said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

InTransit said:

Carl states that his family had given him only mild praise, and that he
should be getting on with his life, something that so many of our parents
echo about spending a lot of time cycling, no matter if its recreational or
professional. Carl's dad is quoted as saying Carl wasted five years of his
life, and he said that's not pleasing to hear, but especially hard I am sure
when you are a national champion. My parents actually cut out and saved the
article from the first race I won, but in time, my parents echoed the same
sentiments just from even spending a lot of time doing the challenges put on
every year by organzations nationwide.

You cannot account for parents. I saw Kathleen Battle's
mom in a TV documentary on Kathleen. Mom did not have a
good word to say for K. who is a world class soprano.
Only thing to be said is "They could have been worse."

Dumbasses:

Carl's parents were right, Kathleen's parents are wrong. That is because
opera matters.

Discuss,

--
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:

opera matters.

I'm ready to take you up on that marriage proposal now.

--
E. Dronkert

Bob Schwartz said:

Carl doesn't have a world championship, I do. The best he's
got is a silver. I lord that over him all the time. When do
I get a stocker?

July's a good time to get a stocker real cheap. I even had a one but then
he ran away; hopefully the SPCA took good care of him.

Ewoud Dronkert said:

Ryan Cousineau said:

opera matters.

I'm ready to take you up on that marriage proposal now.

You really want to marry someone called Jennifer-8 ?

InTransit said:

In one of the photos, it quotes Carl as saying he used his anger in a
positive way to improve his performance, but that generating false anger
was
not the same thing. He said real anger could help his performance
immensely.

I always thought it would be useful for field sprinting to conjure up the
fight-or-flight emotion, which is some kind of biological hormonal release.
Is that what Carl's talking about?

Quoted message said:

Carl basically said the same thing,
that leaving the sport before seeing what he could fully accomplish at the
height of his career would leave him incomplete...

What are you talking about? I watched from behind as Carl won the 35+ crit
national championship 10 years ago... does it get any better than that??

Quoted message said:

In Transit

BTW Bruce, should you really be taunting these guys in this particular
thread?

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Ewoud Dronkert said:

Ryan Cousineau said:

opera matters.

I'm ready to take you up on that marriage proposal now.

You'll have to fight my wife for my hand.

Actually, she's the opera buff in the household; my contributions to
opera appreciation largely amount to "Magic Flute? That the one with the
dragon?" and making fun of the tubercular-opera genre.

Still more important than track, but track is more fun to watch,

--
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

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Donald Munro said:

Ewoud Dronkert said:

Ryan Cousineau said:

opera matters.

I'm ready to take you up on that marriage proposal now.

You really want to marry someone called Jennifer-8 ?

Dumbass: with enough alcohol in my system, I'll look like Number Six.

No, not from The Prisoner, the other Number Six.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Six_%28Battlestar_Galactica%29

Well, maybe Patrick McGoohan.

Be seeing you!

--
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:

Ewoud Dronkert said:

I'm ready to take you up on that marriage proposal now.

You'll have to fight my wife for my hand.

Oh! So when there's real commitment on the horizon you're cowaring
out?! You men are so predictable.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.racing/msg/f565e8e68be9019b

--
E. Dronkert

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Quoted message said:

You'll have to fight my wife for my hand.

Actually, she's the opera buff in the household; my contributions to
opera appreciation largely amount to "Magic Flute? That the one with the
dragon?" and making fun of the tubercular-opera genre.

Still more important than track, but track is more fun to watch,

Opera peaked with the Anvil song in Il Trovatore (the Triangle Song in the
Light Opera version...), but I'll be damned if the rest of it made sense.
Don Giovanni has the most relationship to cycling, or it will if Pound gets
his full set of punishments in place.

It will be worthwhile if Pound plays the father. Best I can tell, they both
go to hell.

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

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Quoted message said:

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

You'll have to fight my wife for my hand.

Actually, she's the opera buff in the household; my contributions to
opera appreciation largely amount to "Magic Flute? That the one with the
dragon?" and making fun of the tubercular-opera genre.

Still more important than track, but track is more fun to watch,

Opera peaked with the Anvil song in Il Trovatore (the Triangle Song in the
Light Opera version...), but I'll be damned if the rest of it made sense.
Don Giovanni has the most relationship to cycling, or it will if Pound gets
his full set of punishments in place.

Commendatore: I challenge you.
Don Giovanni: No, let's not.
C: You scurvy dog, you coward. Draw!
[C draws. DG draws. DG cuts out C's gizzard.]

The rest of the opera is about everybody saying that DG
murdered the Commendatore. No opera buff I ever talked
with considers this hypocritical.

Quoted message said:

It will be worthwhile if Pound plays the father. Best I can tell, they both
go to hell.

--
Michael Press

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ewoud Dronkert said:

Ryan Cousineau said:

Ewoud Dronkert said:

I'm ready to take you up on that marriage proposal now.

You'll have to fight my wife for my hand.

Oh! So when there's real commitment on the horizon you're cowaring
out?! You men are so predictable.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.racing/msg/f565e8e68be9019b

I believe that will make this post the first use of the phrase "breach
of promise" in this newsgroup.

As in, oh no, I can't believe Ewoud is going to sue me for breach of
promise.

ObBike: I've got nothing. But at least the archived post referenced beer
tents!

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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