I want this c.d. bad, really badGot the call from dr. Giggles today and promptly ran to the post office to mail in the postcard in hopes of allocating a spot in the American Spring Classic known as Trans Iowa. I will be training really hard all winter to stay in shape, lose some unwanted weight and acclimatize to riding through the night. All this effort will go towards having a chance if finishing this incredible event. The course for 2010 will be around the 320 mile range with most of the surface being gravel. Equipment , physical and mental fortitude are the only ingredients to finish such an event. When we drove out to Syracuse from Sycamore I zeroed my odometer in the car and found out that the Trans Iowa is like riding offroad from Sycamore, IL to Toledo, Ohio on gravel no less.
I am so excited to have a chance to make it on the roster next week. On other news I finally remembered a C.D. that was stolen from us while on vacation with the wife about 6 years ago. The Band name is "Guided by Voices" and the title is under the bushes under the stars. If anyone has a copy of it please let me know. I am also searching for a used San Marco Rolls Saddle since last Sunday I broke a rail on mine. You will be compensated
best, Ari
Oh to make it official the scheduled group rides are:::::
Saturday 7:30 a.m at North Central Cyclery in Dekalb. Usually 2 hour ride. Winter rides are not cancelled due to weather. The idea is to ride.
Wednesdays 8:30 p.m. at the Great Western Trail head. Please bring food, lights, clothing, more clothing, money, bananas, food, water, clothing. Ride as much as you please. We are going in a straight line to St. Charles and back. Sometimes longer.
Slender Fungus will have impromptu rides in the night. I will be riding all the time and will always welcome a warm human.
out,
Ari
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more...in peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility: but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; then lend the eye a terrible aspect; let pry through the portage of the head like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it as fearfully as doth a galled rock o'erhang and jutty his confounded base, swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Henry V, Act III, 1599
ReplyDeleteAri: Share this information with no one else :)....To prepare for this spring's Trans we set the goal of achieving 15 DBD training sessions (the three winter races that we do count towards this goal). The first and every subsequent DBD ride must be eight hours long (or longer) and must leave before 6:00 am (preferably leave at 5:00 am) or after 8:00 pm at night. If you get less than 8 eights it does not count....last year we got 12 such rides in before the Trans...this year as stated above we are hoping for 15...
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Charlie
Charlie,
ReplyDeleteThose are the numbers I was looking for. thank you so much.
Ari