This. Her holier than thou letter response was strange too.

LOL...going on a tangent....this reminded me of the one and only time I won a running race. I won it in 16'30"'ish, so it is not to brag. They started off the race as big pack which included the kids fun run. I was sooooo proud of my achievement UNTIL I arrived at work the next day and a co-worker said to me "Nice victory!!! You beat the 8 year olds." He held up the newspaper and there was a big picture in the sports section of me running and I had all these kids around me. The caption said I won the race. Damn hilarious. Damn embarrassing.

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just checking in.....still no video??

damn it!

You seem to make some false assumptions.

I don't race. I attend events. I don't knock people down. If they fall, it is because they were at fault. I don't hit people with my car. But I cannot prevent people from falling into my car.

I think you make those assumptions because you race, you knock people down, and you hit people with your car.

My mind is now officially blown...

He hit an unsuspecting person who meant him no harm in the back, and that's inexcusable, regardless of the circumstances.

Being in a race makes no difference to whether his actions were appropriate. Somehow the majority of people in actual combat sports manage to obey allowable contact rules even when their opponent does not. His actions cannot be judged as being special because he was racing, or because there was a relatively minor infraction taking place in his vicinity.

Rumor has it that when this thread reaches 25 pages, a bell is rung at Slowtwitch headquarters and someone wins a Felt bike with Di2. Keep it up!!!!

In an unrelated news clipping, it was stated that 70% of slowtwitcher's are unemployed.

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...or about to be.

Exactly. How am I supposed to get anything done today when I have to check back on ST every 5 minutes for the video??

If I had one chance to go back in time, I'd go back to the Tyngsboro Trot in 2008 and kick my own ass...I'd never broken 18 for a 5K before and this was going to be the day...what a dick!

Thanks for the laugh. You and I share a similar humiliation.

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Can't be that tough of a course. Blair went I think 20 minutes faster than his time from IM Syracuse 70.3. His run still sucked in both compared to his swim and bike legs.

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Sorry, my tough meter is off, I'm hardly a man, not even close to the manliness of ST men. Man oh man....

Did you manage to break 18? It's ok, this year me and my friends went to an open track meet and ran against a bunch of MOP HS kids (no one notable showed up). Out-kicking someone half your age in a 1500 is always a good time. Though we did get stomped in the 4x800 relay

17:56!

That is absolutely hysterical and awesome. Thanks for the laugh! I love it, staring down at watch and all.

#151 looks like she was in awe of your running prowess.

Back to the point of the thread, I see you have your elbow cocked to take out the girl in the orange.

I had something similar happen to a friend. he thought he signed up for a 1 mile road race, and it turs out it was a one mile family fun run.

"Back to the point of the thread, I see you have your elbow cocked to take out the girl in the orange."

The extra boost I got from shoving her back at the gun not only cleared a lane so I didn't get slowed by the stoller at the gun, it likely was what gave me the momentum needed to crack 18. It's unfortunate she was between me and my goals, but hopefully a lesson was learned.

One of the best pics ever at ST. Love the self deprecation. Well done. Great, great pic. You certainly brought your "A" game to that race.

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Why don't we take a 5 minute brake...?

also clear you plan on tripping the stroller, just after the gun goes off. Seriously, this pic just made the thread, bravo sir!

That's not a TdF stage. It's the 1989 world road race championship, in which LeMond beat Dimitri Konyshev and Sean Kelly in the sprint.

Bigger than a TdF stage win, especially for a rider of his caliber.


Stick to triathlons Kate.

In an unrelated news clipping, it was stated that 70% of slowtwitcher's are unemployed.

But still earn in excess of $200k/yr... on average...