Hopeful Friday 9/18/2009

by schmalz

You’re good enough…

Amazingly, there’s still opportunities this weekend for those who desire to wring out every last drop of personal achievement from the 2009 cycling season. So suit up, you got some self worth to stock pile.

For a duration of threes days, from Friday to Sunday, you can stage race at the Tour of the Catskills.

Saturday brings the opportunity to catch Kissena (which is nothing like catching a social disease) at the Catch Kissena Road Race in Prospect Park

For the dirt and irony crowd, there’s the Nittany Lion Cross Race in Breinigsville, PA.

70 Comments

liquiguts

21 kissena positives chased by 11 kissena-free riders.

The metro area appears to be in no danger of catching kissena.

Aaron Torque

that depends on who’s in that group – most top kissena guys are in switzerland already to scout the worlds course

Sacha Swage

If you catch Kissena you are then forced to race with Kissena. For me personally its just not worth the furstation.

Galleazzo Polished

Is never OK, and especially if your initials are RL. You know who you are. Its like taking a dump in the middle of a bunch of other riders. And if there’s no race, don’t bother practicing brake checking on your group ride.

Elias Cable

come on, that was not a real cyclocross race. that doesn’t reflect cross any more than pics of beer helmets at roller races represent the road scene, or pictures of bike polo represent racing on the track.

blah blah

cyclocross looks like waaaaaay too much fun

for mind-numbingly boring winter sessions, anyone have a view on tacx vr vs. computrainer?

Nicola Fastellara

There is Irony on the Irony example. That dude doesn’t really race. Schmalz, clearly, has never been to a cross race.

william d-c

i’d like to encourage everyone on the fence to come out and chase in the catch kissena race in prospect park tomorrow.

the handicap will be probably be between 3:00 and 2:45, much less than last year’s 4:00 when we stayed away.

hope to have a big crowd.

also, JP will be wearing his pony tail in cornrows, a la K-Fed.

not to be missed.

-william d-c, kissena cycling club

liquiguts

Saturday is also international Talk Like a Pirate Day, sacred to Pastafarians owing to the complex relationship between piracy and climate change. Given that this is the first time TLaPD has fallen on Rosh Hashana, Kissena might catch itself, and JP will have carry a parrot on his should for the rest of the year.

Cat skills

Great race so far TT…close enough from the City, great promotor, fantastic staff…if you are not here, wasting your time on the internet, you are missing a great race weekend.

Cat skills

Great race so far TT…close enough from the City, great promotor, fantastic staff…if you are not here, wasting your time on the internet, you are missing a great race weekend.

Totto Ceramic

Congratulations, JP and the rest of Kissena.
It’s always hysterical if you happen to drift far enough close to the back of field… you enjoy listening the United guys (and W. Schneider) sitting there calling everyone pulling “assholes” for not catching. Priceless!

Gaetan Housing

Dude I was in the front your group in the break with 2 other riders with 5 laps to go. So you DID NOT HEAR ME SAY ANYTHING. If you where paying attention you would have seen me cross the line FIRST in front of you.

Totto Ceramic

Umm… wouldn’t it have been helpful to have ridden at the front early, instead of ‘breaking away’/rolling off the front of a group resigned to the fact that Kissena’s then 2:25 lead was insurmountable? Your “1st place” was actually an uncontested 25th. Nice race.

Will S

Your missing the point….if you where riding fast enough you would have been with me instead of chilling five laps back and I Do know the rules…”Catch me if you can Kissena”

Sorry to added to this but someone likes my name?

LANCE

In English, negation for most verbs other than be and have, or verb phrases in which be, have or do already occur, requires the recasting of the sentence using the dummy auxiliary verb do, which adds little to the meaning of the negative phrase, but serves as a place to attach the negative particles not, or its contracted form -n’t, to:

I have a chicken.
I haven’t a chicken. (Rare, but it is still possible to negate have without the auxiliary do.)
I don’t have a chicken. (The most common way in contemporary English.)
In Middle English, the particle not could be attached to any verb:

I see not the chicken.
In Modern English, these forms fell out of use, and the use of an auxiliary such as do or be is obligatory in most cases:

I do not see the chicken.
I am not seeing the chicken.
I have not seen the chicken.
The verb do also follows this rule, and therefore requires a second instance of itself in order to be marked for negation:

The chicken doesn’t do tricks

greg lemond

I smell a Conspiracy theory with Kissena, in law, agreement of two or more persons to commit a criminal or otherwise unlawful act. At common law, the crime of conspiracy was committed with the making of the agreement, but present-day statutes require an overt step by a conspirator

Cold Observer

Where’s Dave Jordan to organize the chase? 60% of the 1-2-3 chasers looked like they never rode in a paceline before.

Oh and Prospect Park is a circle which means the wind comes from a different direction depending on where you are, so why are most of you always pulling through on the same side?

Diego Saddlebag

truly killed it today, well deserved win on a great course

I would not go on usa cycling for resume of a rider, half the promoters do not even send them the results. I know plenty of guys who have been turned down for upgrades due to ” promoter did not submit results to us ”

Chad Feldheimer

“half the promoters do not even send them the results”

what the fuck are you talking about? i don’t know one major out of town road race this year where the promoter didn’t send results. maybe you should race outside of prospect park once in a while.

Jonas Internal Routing

i raced to the bathroom in prospect park last weekend.

didn’t get an upgrade though. it sucks.

mom! where’s that meatloaf? fuck!

Luzzo lover

The dude in yellow jersey called for a “bathroom” break in the middle of 50 mile race. This is no Tour of CT or Euro Cotinenental race…cat 4 50 mile race. If you need to go, go ahead do what you need to do..Next time I ain’t waitin.

West Coast Reader

I can’t believe you actually waited! Are you that much of a pawn? Come on, unless you had to go why would you of stopped? Looks like he pulled a good one on you, gotta give it to him for making you feel guilty or just a follower to stop.

Who is this guy that he could do this? I gotta know!

Luzzo lover

Actually, 90% of the peloton stopped. A few rolled off, soft pedaling and chit chatting. He had the nerve to say “you guys didn’t wait!”. He must be watching the Tour on Versus too much

Vespaciano Housing

ride and piss, go practice, E.Houston…
Or, how to…warm your legs when riding in the rain…
Maybe the excitable cat4 took too much diuretic (caf-fiend)???
Too many “old farts” with small bladders…
and enlarged prostaters…

Charlie Chainlink

Actually, Haber was the one who called for the piss break and convinced the yellow jersey and 90% of the group to stop…as for the Teany team, what a bunch cry babies and what were your tactics? Piss and moan?

Etsu

No tactics — we(a few of us) did not need to stop to pee and we were there to ride our bikes, so we kept riding. But mind you, we sat up, and ONLY soft pedaled(or coasted down hill). While I personally disagreed with the decision to stop, I have no reason to take advantage of such situation. I question the need or the decision of the group(and I am sure more thought it was silly to stop than not)but no way I will attack knowing…esp now knowing that there are guys like you who will single out a team anonymously in an open forum like this.
If you are afraid of guys riding away bc you wanted to take a pee break in a cat 4 race, next time wear something inside your bibs.

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