shinomaster
12-05-2007, 03:48 PM
This past weekend was one of the best for me in recent memory.
It all started Thursday night when I went out and partied with my friends till One in the morning in a smoky dive bar. I woke up Friday feeling very confused and coughing. I have had a cough for three weeks now. I think getting bronchitis in 1992 somehow effed up my lungs for good. It's probably not a good Idea to get wrecked two days before a race, but I didn't exactly plan it to happen that way. They had Chimay on draught after all! :beer:
I met Zank and Terry and Chris at the Vanilla open house where there was some seriously pretty stuff to drool over. Sacha was as gracious and friendly as ever. I got to bed that night early but couldn't sleep due to extreme excitement, and the fact that I was over tired. I woke up the next day to race at 6:00 for a 8:30 race, feeling as if I were dead. Hey, it all worked out and I got 6th! Yay. It was fun hanging out with Zank and meeting Matt Myette10. They are both exceptionally nice persons and I can see why they would be friends. Zank raced next in the B's and rode the muddy hill almost every time, when a lot of the guys in his race were using it as a place to look confused and helpless, crash, or fall down. Zank is all smiles as he races, as if he is actually having fun. Maybe he isn't taking it seriously enough?
Terry and Matt raced next in the masters A' race. It looked like a wicked hard field and the race was strung out really fast buy a guy who should clearly be riding in the pro field. As a matter of fact the front of the B' field was led by some clowns that looked like pro's too. Zank, I promise you they were sandbaggers.
I had a stuffy lawyer party to go to with a friend that night and glutted my starving self on an all your can eat gourmet, fat camp sufferer's nightmare of a buffet. It was perfect and delicious. Those lawyers can really party. Got home late and went to bed after working on my bike in my kitchen, and I wasn't sure if I would race the next day or not. :confused:
I woke up feeling wired and refreshed and drank a can of Full Throttle for breakfast, and raced out to the race leaving behind my Gore-tex jacket and polar fleece for after the race. I raced mostly for fun having a great time and it was a great way to end the season. I stuck around to watch Zank race but then I had to split as I was completely soaked, and shivering.
I headed over to another party after that! It was the Cross crusade awards party prom. Those crazy fools can really party (sorry lawyers!) I won some $100 wood fenders! Now I can have a real fender bike like Terry and Chris. of course I drank some winter ale and it didn't take much to put me back in the coffin, thus ending the best weekend of recent memory (from what I can remember.)
It's just too bad the weather suck so badly. I had visions of spraying Zank with Chimay and hanging out in the lovely weather, after the race. Did you drink that beer Zank? Did you get in that hot tub?
Myette10's Zank was one of the most lovely cross bikes I have seen, and it was the final kick in the pants for me to order a Zank. I pulled the trigger. I'll have it in the summer with plenty of time to build it up and familiarize myself with it. The Fuji is going to Fuji heaven. Somehow his bike was lighter than mine too even though it was made out of old, antiquated steel. :) I can't wait to get it and build it up. The only thing I need to figure out now is how long a top tube to get.
It all started Thursday night when I went out and partied with my friends till One in the morning in a smoky dive bar. I woke up Friday feeling very confused and coughing. I have had a cough for three weeks now. I think getting bronchitis in 1992 somehow effed up my lungs for good. It's probably not a good Idea to get wrecked two days before a race, but I didn't exactly plan it to happen that way. They had Chimay on draught after all! :beer:
I met Zank and Terry and Chris at the Vanilla open house where there was some seriously pretty stuff to drool over. Sacha was as gracious and friendly as ever. I got to bed that night early but couldn't sleep due to extreme excitement, and the fact that I was over tired. I woke up the next day to race at 6:00 for a 8:30 race, feeling as if I were dead. Hey, it all worked out and I got 6th! Yay. It was fun hanging out with Zank and meeting Matt Myette10. They are both exceptionally nice persons and I can see why they would be friends. Zank raced next in the B's and rode the muddy hill almost every time, when a lot of the guys in his race were using it as a place to look confused and helpless, crash, or fall down. Zank is all smiles as he races, as if he is actually having fun. Maybe he isn't taking it seriously enough?
Terry and Matt raced next in the masters A' race. It looked like a wicked hard field and the race was strung out really fast buy a guy who should clearly be riding in the pro field. As a matter of fact the front of the B' field was led by some clowns that looked like pro's too. Zank, I promise you they were sandbaggers.
I had a stuffy lawyer party to go to with a friend that night and glutted my starving self on an all your can eat gourmet, fat camp sufferer's nightmare of a buffet. It was perfect and delicious. Those lawyers can really party. Got home late and went to bed after working on my bike in my kitchen, and I wasn't sure if I would race the next day or not. :confused:
I woke up feeling wired and refreshed and drank a can of Full Throttle for breakfast, and raced out to the race leaving behind my Gore-tex jacket and polar fleece for after the race. I raced mostly for fun having a great time and it was a great way to end the season. I stuck around to watch Zank race but then I had to split as I was completely soaked, and shivering.
I headed over to another party after that! It was the Cross crusade awards party prom. Those crazy fools can really party (sorry lawyers!) I won some $100 wood fenders! Now I can have a real fender bike like Terry and Chris. of course I drank some winter ale and it didn't take much to put me back in the coffin, thus ending the best weekend of recent memory (from what I can remember.)
It's just too bad the weather suck so badly. I had visions of spraying Zank with Chimay and hanging out in the lovely weather, after the race. Did you drink that beer Zank? Did you get in that hot tub?
Myette10's Zank was one of the most lovely cross bikes I have seen, and it was the final kick in the pants for me to order a Zank. I pulled the trigger. I'll have it in the summer with plenty of time to build it up and familiarize myself with it. The Fuji is going to Fuji heaven. Somehow his bike was lighter than mine too even though it was made out of old, antiquated steel. :) I can't wait to get it and build it up. The only thing I need to figure out now is how long a top tube to get.