I never jest Robin, and don’t call me Shirley. KAPOW!
First off, Happy Thanksgiving. But that’s right kids, there are only 100 days left until the start of the Rutgers ITT! This will be the “100 Day” installment of The Final Countdown series that I’ll be writing throughout the pre-season. It’s so close but so far away, if you’ll allow me to use a greatly overused colloquialism. What am I hoping for at Rutgers? Here’s a list:
-Global Warming keeps its trend going and gives us another Rutgers in the 60s and 70s
-Success for BU in the ITT. Not quite sure how to detail “success” quite yet, but I’m working on it.
-A freshly paved Rutgers Crit course. It’s the same course they had by their stadium two years ago and if I remember correctly, those roads sucked. Case in point:
-In opposite fashion of the crit. two years ago, I would like NO WIND. The headwind after turn two that year sucked soo bad and equaled my demise in the end. Stop it wind, just stop it.
-They had a band at the crit two years ago…that might be nice.
-Once again, BU will start the trend of taking out the seats of vans to watch the races. Boston University started this in in the road season in 2007 after a whole season of standing and watching everyone else stand. This is our legacy, and it started with this picture(note: UNH followed our trend) at Easterns at Vassar (which totally totally needs to happen again) (sorry for all the parentheses, irony noted).
Rutgers throughback, get ready:
With the start of Base 3 looming in the next few days I know that the serious work is still to come, especially once Natan gets back from Down Under. Until then, I have the other awesome BU and GLV peeps. We had a joint BU-GLV ride last Saturday of about 70+ miles on one of the CRW loops. There were about 10 of us total making for a great ride. Let me tell you how stupid we were. Not stupid in the unsafe sense, but stupid in the we-did-everything-totally-wrong sense.
-We rode at a fairly high octane level, the fastest of us (Sam, Keith, and I) were somewhere between 18-18.5 mph avers, which for a a Base ride, is more than a little bit too fast.
-Keith, Sam and I sprinted for every town line, even the imaginary ones.
-Sam and I billy-goated up every hill, unintentionally leaving everyone else a few hundred meters back.
-After a long hard ride were we were all pooped, we went back to Peach’s house for a “meeting.” Meeting in so much as numerous brief discussions about what the heck we’re doing next year.
Now for the kicker
-At Peach’s, we preceded to order 4 pizzas for 7 of us. Waited almost an hour for them, and then devoured at least half a full-sized Sicilian pizza each, with the exception of Keith, who ate a whole one. Then Smith and his girlfriend (who needs to totally quite crushing souls in Marathons and race bikes, beeteedubs) brought cookies. Needelss to say to took quite a bit of effort to actually get out of Peach’s, go home, and then have an early Thanksgiving Dinner with my own roommates.
Yeah…in hindsight it wasn’t the best idea at all, but it was fun.
100 Days…get crackin people.
That ride was awesomely painful and fast for a noob like myself but fun nonetheless
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