I did an Escape The Don ride last night with the Beaches Cycle Club, damn those guys are fast. But I was very pleased to report that I was not dropped, its a great feeling when all the effort finally starts to pay off and I can in fact hold on to the back of the pack if I struggle with the last fibre of my strength. Dan posted the route on the BCC blog, but here is the actual route as captured by my GPS. We averaged over 30km/h and burned over 2900 calories in just over two hours. Last night was a good night for me.
Now I was going to respond to a recent comment in response to this blog post, I was going to go into an angry tirade against someone who didn't have the balls to sign their name in a posting but had the audacity to publicly say to me that I should "get over [my]self" that apparently I am a "whiner". Instead I will say only this, anonymous, if you publicly write an apology in the comment section of this post - and sign your name, I will remove your original comment, because frankly that comment betrays a profound lack of literary comprehension that is... embarrassing. I mean reading the bloody comment is like watching the guy who "humped the pie" on American Pie glue his hand to... himself. Its almost painful to watch, or in this case read. Anyway that is all I am going to say on that subject, sorry for exposing everyone else to that.
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You wanna talk literary comprehension and all you can cite is...the humping scene from American Pie?
I'm not a shrink, I only play one on tv, but here's my problem witchu.
From all indications, you suck at skating; rather than acknowledge that fact, you've railed against a sport denouncing it as corrupt - and some of its participants 'elitist'. Why do you need to denigrate those who've committed a shit pile of hard work, not insignificant $$, and passion in a sport that they love as equally as you do biking? If you've elected to invest your time and effort in biking, good on ya my little mensch, but stop peeing in this particular sand box.
And for someone who's the self-proclaimed skating proletariat (they didn't reference pros in 'American Pie' so you might need to break out the Marx...Karl, that is), battling against elitism - why the detailed reference to your bike? Dude, it's a stupid bike not bionic limbs.
No, you really do need to read my post properly, in particular:
[quote]Will I give up skating? No. I just do not think I will be doing it all that often anymore. I have to admit I am pretty disgusted at the inline industry actually.[close quote]
You see I don't have or intend any disrespect for clean skaters or for the activity of inline skating. My issue is with the inline *industry* the suppliers and makers of equipment - you do understand there is a difference between those guys and the people who actually "committed a shit pile of hard work" don't you?
And we all know that this is a sport that in North America is not properly checked for doping, I am not going to name names, but it happens and that ruins it for clean athletes.
Anyway if you don't like what I have to say, don't read my blog, but why you persist in writing things that only make you look foolish, whoever you are... well at least this is driving up my hit counter, so keep it comming.
Michael
You shitting me?
I think you need to review your own posts, in particular your comments about 'brash elitism' in the sport. Trying now to position yourself as the Ralph Nader or Jacques Rogge of the skating world is laughable.
You know what a bigger man would have posted? Perhaps a congratulatory word or two to those who achieved their personal goals at the race, acknowledging the hard work that they've committed to their athletic pursuit, and this race in particular. But, no, you whine about the corruption and doping in the sport - insinuating that perhaps those who finished 297 places ahead of you were guilty of crimes and misdemeanors.
BTW, people ain't flocking to your blog to read your comments - but mine. So, I am bowing out of this little boob for boob - 'cause you're not proving to be a worthy opponent and it's getting boring.
Ride off into that sunset on your specialized Robaix 2007, Michael, pumping 45km/hr on your Ultegra group and Ksyrium SL wheels, knowing that you're a lean mean cardio machine, who's blood runs clean, whose heart beats proud, in the noble role of corruption slayer.
Yeah, right.
Hey anonymous, wise advice can be found, right here.
Hey, Sherlock - did it ever occur to you that many people share my opinion of you and find your posts spiteful, insulting and arrogant?
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