If a rival wins if you cramped up, does this count?

Yes it most certainly counts!!! The almighty one will let him into heaven before you. :slight_smile:

You can’t be serious…

go ahead…lemme have it…

(bending over…)

You’re looking for BottomFeeder, not me…

lol!!!

Oh my God…really. A win is a win. That’s why we race because there’s always the element of the unknown. End of discussion. Offer your sincere congratulations to the winner and move on.

What mental games you use to motivate yourself to fix the problem and do better next time-- fine. But keep those inside your head, which you might want to remove from your a$$ so you’re more ready next time.

What if his excuse for losing to you all this time was that he always suffered from cramping issues. This time, he finally got his nutrition correct. Would you have accepted the fact that you beat him because he was cramping or because you were better than him…?

You’re a whining troll… which is something we already knew.

“he wound up beating me by 15 minutes”

You lost. Until you beat him next time, he’s still the champ. Get over it.

You ask a question, get a truthful answer, and start slinging aspersions…

Sheesh, don’t shoot the messenger…

and you? a pompous asshole. nahhhhhhhhh…
“bend over”… “asshole”… you really need to come out of the closet…

dude, get over it. A flat is one thing…but hey man, you cramped 'cause you didn’t get your nutrition (not enough salt perhaps?). It’s all part of the race.

You lost. Period.

Cyclisto is a prime example why hanging out with trigeeks can be a real drag.

It’s thirty minutes after a half iron and you just ripped yourself a new one, you’re spent, dehydrated, sunburnt… some unknown guy comes over to make small talk, asks how your race went, you give a five word answer, and this tool goes off for the next twenty minutes about how great he was feeling, he was going to pr, blah, blah, legs started cramping, he bravely soldiered on, then his rival Scott Farcus passes him with two miles to go and Chas Cyclisto musters the courage to barely make it to the finish line… and he had to use the strength of ten men just to get there.

All the while you’re thinking, “Please someone come over here and split my skull with a shovel so I don’t have to hear one more bloody word from this blowhard.”

Something like that.

Classic :slight_smile:
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It was pretty slow today on ST and then you leave to get the latest copy of Inside Tri, and then a classic thread starts.

Even though cyclisto attempted to delete all his posts, you still get the jest of it.

…you still get the jest of it

Classic… Was this an intentional misspelling? If so, you are my wordsmithing hero.

If you have a brain cramp and make a stupid post, but then delete it, does it count?