Progress!

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:00:12 GMT,
<[email hidden]>, the black rose

Quoted message said:

Today I knocked 13 minutes off the time it takes me to ride 25 miles.
Waaaaa hooooo!

:-D

I've been doing intervals and sprints to try to improve my average
speed. Guess it's working!

Always check the wind speed and direction before getting too enthused
about a faster than usual time. It's also a good excuse for slower
times so it does work both ways.
--
zk

Zoot Katz said:

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:00:12 GMT,
<[email hidden]>, the black rose

Quoted message said:

Today I knocked 13 minutes off the time it takes me to ride 25 miles.
Waaaaa hooooo!

:-D

I've been doing intervals and sprints to try to improve my average
speed. Guess it's working!

Always check the wind speed and direction before getting too enthused
about a faster than usual time. It's also a good excuse for slower
times so it does work both ways.

How true. (But still, way to go, Black Rose! 🙂 )

I do a little solo time trial around Fiesta Island here in San Diego. The
"long course" (much rougher section of road and into VERY strong winds on
back side) is 4.42 miles (IIRC), and for the life of me I just couldn't
break 13 minutes. Sometimes not even close.

Yesterday, with some new tires (Vittoria Techno Pros) I don't really like
much (they "feel" slow and are butt-ugly yellow), I did it in 12:52 (or so).
Pretty sure it was the wind (very strong but not in face as much as usual).

Bill "gotta get my lazy butt out there in the early AM when winds are calm
and see how I do" S.

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:43:34 -0500, "Sam spade" <[email hidden]> wrote
in message <[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

(enthused)? That is not a word. You can be enthusiastic, but you cannot be
enthused.

Up to a point, Lord Copper. It is a word according to Chambers, but
as the past tense of the verb "to enthuse", as in "the group enthused
over Sam Spade's decision to stop top-posting".

Current usage allows for Zoot's sentence as well, but current usage
also apparently allows sentences with "like" as every third word :-)

Guy
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Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:20:35 +0100,
<[email hidden]>, "Just zis Guy, you

know? said:

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:43:34 -0500, "Sam spade" <[email hidden]> wrote
in message <[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

(enthused)? That is not a word. You can be enthusiastic, but you cannot be
enthused.

Up to a point, Lord Copper. It is a word according to Chambers, but
as the past tense of the verb "to enthuse", as in "the group enthused
over Sam Spade's decision to stop top-posting".

Current usage allows for Zoot's sentence as well, but current usage
also apparently allows sentences with "like" as every third word :-)

[Back-formation from enthusiasm.]

Usage Note: The verb enthuse is not well accepted. Its use in the
sentence The majority leader enthused over his party's gains was
rejected by 76 percent of the Usage Panel in the late 1960s, and its
status remains unfavorable: the same sentence was rejected by 65
percent of the Usage Panel in 1997. This lack of enthusiasm for
enthuse is often attributed to its status as a back-formation; such
words often meet with disapproval on their first appearance and only
gradually become accepted over time. But other back- formations such
as diagnose (a back-formation from diagnosis that was first recorded
in 1861) and donate (first cited in 1785 as a back-formation from
donation) are considered unimpeachable English words. Since enthuse
dates from 1827, something more significant may be overriding the
erosion of popular resistance. Unlike enthusiasm, which denotes an
internal emotional state, enthuse denotes either the external
expression of emotion, as in She enthused over attending the awards
ceremony, or the inducement of enthusiasm by an external source, as in
He was so enthused about the diet pills that he agreed to provide a
testimonial. Possibly, some people's distaste for this emphasis on
external emotional display and manipulation is the source of unease
that is manifested by a distaste for the word itself.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
--
zk

(enthused)? That is not a word. You can be enthusiastic, but you cannot be
enthused.

"Zoot Katz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:00:12 GMT,
<[email hidden]>, the black rose

Quoted message said:

Today I knocked 13 minutes off the time it takes me to ride 25 miles.
Waaaaa hooooo!

:-D

I've been doing intervals and sprints to try to improve my average
speed. Guess it's working!

Always check the wind speed and direction before getting too enthused
about a faster than usual time. It's also a good excuse for slower
times so it does work both ways.
--
zk

S o r n i said:

Zoot Katz said:

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:00:12 GMT,
<[email hidden]>, the black rose

Quoted message said:

Today I knocked 13 minutes off the time it takes me to ride 25 miles.
Waaaaa hooooo!

:-D

I've been doing intervals and sprints to try to improve my average
speed. Guess it's working!

Always check the wind speed and direction before getting too enthused
about a faster than usual time. It's also a good excuse for slower
times so it does work both ways.

How true. (But still, way to go, Black Rose! 🙂 )

BAH, you guys are harsh.

There was no noticeable difference in windspeed and direction this week
than last. (The weather has been uniformly nasty lately -- cold and
wet.) Lemme have my enthusiasm. Hmpf.

😉

--
the black rose
GO LANCE GO!!!
proud to be owned by a yorkie
http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:23:57 GMT,
<[email hidden]>,

the black rose said:

BAH, you guys are harsh.

It's a tough crowd. Lots of weenies and number crunchers.

Quoted message said:

There was no noticeable difference in windspeed and direction this week
than last. (The weather has been uniformly nasty lately -- cold and
wet.) Lemme have my enthusiasm. Hmpf.

😉

It's great progress and I'm sincerely delighted that you're enjoying
your rides. That's what it's about.

Riding fast in cool damp air lets you work harder without overheating
as quickly. No wind makes it perfect. No wonder you're flying!

But you beat yourself out of thirteen more minutes awheel.

<ASCII gesticulation to express humour, not cynicism>
--
zk

Quoted message said:

Today I knocked 13 minutes off the time it takes me to ride
25 miles.

=v= And Lance, too, knocked some minutes off. :^)

Quoted message said:

--
the black rose
GO LANCE GO!!!

=v= GO THE BLACK ROSE GO!!!
<_Jym_>

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:43:34 -0500, "Sam spade" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

(enthused)? That is not a word. You can be enthusiastic, but you cannot be
enthused.

Vernacularly speaking, it is.

Is "vernacularly" a word?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=enthused
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=vernacularly
--
Rick Onanian