anyone find it amusing when someone goes pscyho in a road race when people are working in a group. this happened a few times with same guy on a race i was in recently.
i think next time it happens i am gonna get smart to em. it was funny tho…this guy had been real aggro earlier telling everyone what to do etc, then he is coming up a hill and yells to his wife/gf ‘GET ME A FUCKING GEL’, she is holding out a drink bottle, and when he continutes yelling this…anyway he reaches her and has to stop cos she has had to go to the car to get the gel. hahah thankfully he was dropped from the group at that point.
it’s just real annoying ya know. i am on a road race to have fun personally and do as well as i can. some people just take this stuff too seriously.
In one local race i was runnign next to a guy. His wife/partner handed him a bidon of coke. After a moment he threw it at her and said “it was meant to be fucking flat!” Wanker!
No, but today I was listening to Don Dokken talk about his former guitar player.
He says Oh yeah, I still see him he is really big now. Muscled up and stuff, his arms are as big as my thighs. a little later he recounts the end of their last reunion tour where the guitar player was choking Don. I immediately figured he’s on steroids.
I would truly have had a hard time not sticking my foot out and tripping this guy followed by “accidentally” running over his head.
Jon, my wife wouldn’t have run me down but, strangely, my key wouldn’t have fit in the door when I got home. Oh well, no problem, all my clothes are out here on the lawn anyway.
<<Jon, my wife wouldn’t have run me down but, strangely, my key wouldn’t have fit in the door when I got home. Oh well, no problem, all my clothes are out here on the lawn anyway. >>
Aww man, you’d get to keep your clothes, what a sweetheart you’ve got. What the hell did I get myself into~!
Why is that so normal in road racing? It’s happened in every road race i’ve ever entered. Unfortunately, it seems to be engrained in the culture. ‘be an asshole, at every opportunity’.
how disrespectful. If anyone is lucky enough to have a woman that comes out to their crazy races in the middle of nowhere to cheer them on, you need to be thankful.
it took me ages to get my head around it during the race. it was a 1/2, and i was struggling a bit that day, but we were running 2nd and 3rd. the first guy (Simon Thompson - not a bad athlete) was up the road a fair ways, so it was down to us. normally i run ok - like 1:17 or so, but i was just hanging on to 4 min kms all day. he sat on me the whole way, and i had to dig deep to drop him in the last 400m. i was totally knackered. but the whole incident just sort of shocked me. i didn’t get angry, i was just sort of puzzled and a bit ‘out of my skin’ if you know what i mean. i kept thinking, what would happen if it was a ‘real’ issue. i kept thinking domestic violence…
he’s a local pro. the kind of guy who’s been around for ages and ticks along ok. wanker.
Well, if like me, your wiffe is not going to take that kind of crap, I assume she’d pick someone who wouldn’t give that kind of crap. Its like assuming you’re smart by association…kj
