RAAM -warmup

[Ceasar Valeroso]

The first 300 miles is usually just the warmup, after the 300 mile mark
people start getting out of the saddle and try to get some speed on and some
gaps. Remember this is not some small 80 mile crit loop, this is Coast to
Coast racing, where it takes 8 hours on a jet airliner to get back to your
car. Now I know it really takes some mind expansion to grasp it all, but
you can think big, or stay thinking small. Your choice.

 

[Ewoud Dronkert]

Ceasar Valeroso wrote:
> [stuff]

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ceasar.html

--
E. Dronkert

 

[Mark & Steven Bornfeld]

Ceasar Valeroso wrote:

> The first 300 miles is usually just the warmup, after the 300 mile mark
> people start getting out of the saddle and try to get some speed on and some
> gaps. Remember this is not some small 80 mile crit loop, this is Coast to
> Coast racing, where it takes 8 hours on a jet airliner to get back to your
> car. Now I know it really takes some mind expansion to grasp it all, but
> you can think big, or stay thinking small. Your choice.
>
>


That's a pretty slow flight nonstop. Flight time should be about 6 hours.

Steve

PS. What's an 80 mile crit loop?
PPS Gaps? I thought drafting was forbidden?

--
Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
http://www.dentaltwins.com
Brooklyn, NY
718-258-5001

 

[William Asher]

Ceasar Valeroso wrote:

> The first 300 miles is usually just the warmup, after the 300 mile
> mark people start getting out of the saddle and try to get some speed
> on and some gaps. Remember this is not some small 80 mile crit loop,
> this is Coast to Coast racing, where it takes 8 hours on a jet
> airliner to get back to your car. Now I know it really takes some
> mind expansion to grasp it all, but you can think big, or stay
> thinking small. Your choice.
>
>

Maybe that is the problem, if they ran a 1000-lap criterium with a 3-mile
loop RAAM-distance races would get more respect. Or you could do 12000
laps on a track. As a bonus prize for the track event, anyone not dying of
boredom by lap 7000 or so automatically qualifies as a mission specialist
for the first manned spaceship to Mars.

--
Bill Asher

 

[bill]

William Asher wrote:
> Ceasar Valeroso wrote:
>
> > The first 300 miles is usually just the warmup, after the 300 mile
> > mark people start getting out of the saddle and try to get some speed
> > on and some gaps. Remember this is not some small 80 mile crit loop,
> > this is Coast to Coast racing, where it takes 8 hours on a jet
> > airliner to get back to your car. Now I know it really takes some
> > mind expansion to grasp it all, but you can think big, or stay
> > thinking small. Your choice.
> >
> >
>
> Maybe that is the problem, if they ran a 1000-lap criterium with a 3-mile
> loop RAAM-distance races would get more respect. Or you could do 12000
> laps on a track. As a bonus prize for the track event, anyone not dying of
> boredom by lap 7000 or so automatically qualifies as a mission specialist
> for the first manned spaceship to Mars.

Why not just make it a 3,000 mile indoor roller race? That way, the
spectators don't have to wait 8 minutes for their favorites to come
around again.

 

[William Asher]

bill wrote:

<snip>
>
> Why not just make it a 3,000 mile indoor roller race? That way, the
> spectators don't have to wait 8 minutes for their favorites to come
> around again.
>

Too fredly.

--
Bill Asher

 

[Carl Sundquist]

"Mark & Steven Bornfeld" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:%2Azf.16162$6L1.6186@trnddc02...
> Ceasar Valeroso wrote:
>
>> The first 300 miles is usually just the warmup, after the 300 mile
>> mark
>> people start getting out of the saddle and try to get some speed on and
>> some
>> gaps. Remember this is not some small 80 mile crit loop, this is Coast
>> to
>> Coast racing, where it takes 8 hours on a jet airliner to get back to
>> your
>> car. Now I know it really takes some mind expansion to grasp it all, but
>> you can think big, or stay thinking small. Your choice.
>>
>>
>
>
> That's a pretty slow flight nonstop. Flight time should be about 6 hours.
>
> Steve
>

It's RAAM. They had to stop for stop signs.

 

[Robert Chung]

Ceasar Valeroso wrote:
> Now I know it really takes some mind
> expansion to grasp it all, but you can think big, or stay thinking
> small. Your choice.

I'm thinking kinda small:
http://galerija.jurerobic.net/albums/raam2004ag91/RAAM2004_10593.sized.jpg

 

[Callistus Valerius]

> Ceasar Valeroso wrote:
> > Now I know it really takes some mind
> > expansion to grasp it all, but you can think big, or stay thinking
> > small. Your choice.
>
> I'm thinking kinda small:
> http://galerija.jurerobic.net/albums/raam2004ag91/RAAM2004_10593.sized.jpg
>
If Robic had known about Lantiseptic he wouldn't have had to have crotch
surgery. Also it looks like he should have been using some sun block.

 

[Carl Sundquist]

"Robert Chung" <[email protected]> wrote in message

> http://galerija.jurerobic.net/albums/raam2004ag91/RAAM2004_10593.sized.jpg
>

Helmet rules suck.

 

[Mark & Steven Bornfeld]

Robert Chung wrote:

> Ceasar Valeroso wrote:
>
>>Now I know it really takes some mind
>>expansion to grasp it all, but you can think big, or stay thinking
>>small. Your choice.
>
>
> I'm thinking kinda small:
> http://galerija.jurerobic.net/albums/raam2004ag91/RAAM2004_10593.sized.jpg
>
>


Is that a name tag? Last request?

Steve

--
Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
http://www.dentaltwins.com
Brooklyn, NY
718-258-5001

 

[Curtis L. Russell]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:20:27 GMT, Mark & Steven Bornfeld
<[email protected]> wrote:

>PS. What's an 80 mile crit loop?

A real ***** to get to the wheel pit?

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

 

[Ryan Cousineau]

In article <[email protected]>,
Curtis L. Russell <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:20:27 GMT, Mark & Steven Bornfeld
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >PS. What's an 80 mile crit loop?
>
> A real ***** to get to the wheel pit?

Who cares? The free lap is worth it.

--
Ryan Cousineau [email protected] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

 

[Curtis L. Russell]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:14:23 GMT, Ryan Cousineau <[email protected]>
wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>,
> Curtis L. Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:20:27 GMT, Mark & Steven Bornfeld
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >PS. What's an 80 mile crit loop?
>>
>> A real ***** to get to the wheel pit?
>
>Who cares? The free lap is worth it.

Got a point.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

 

[Torched Smurf]

RAAM is for pussies. RAAAB (Ride Across America And Back) is where it's
at. Don't be that guy who gets to the turn-around point and calls his
wife to come pick him up.

Ceasar Valeroso wrote:
> The first 300 miles is usually just the warmup, after the 300 mile mark
> people start getting out of the saddle and try to get some speed on and some
> gaps. Remember this is not some small 80 mile crit loop, this is Coast to
> Coast racing, where it takes 8 hours on a jet airliner to get back to your
> car. Now I know it really takes some mind expansion to grasp it all, but
> you can think big, or stay thinking small. Your choice.

 

[Dan Connelly]

Each of the RAAM competitors coached by me gets an extensive program of standing
start training, focusing on the explosive ATP-dominated acceleration needed to
firmly position oneself as a serious competitor right from the the RAAM start line.

RAAM isn't won at the start, but it can be lost there!

Dan

 

[Howard Kveck]

In article <[email protected]>,
Dan Connelly <d_j_c_o_n_n_e_l@i_e_e_e.o_r_g> wrote:

> Each of the RAAM competitors coached by me gets an extensive program of
> standing
> start training, focusing on the explosive ATP-dominated acceleration needed
> to
> firmly position oneself as a serious competitor right from the the RAAM start
> line.
>
> RAAM isn't won at the start, but it can be lost there!
>
> Dan

You know, this could come in handy at the end, too, when it comes down to a
two-up sprint and the riders slow to a crawl playing cat and mouse.

--
tanx,
Howard

The poodle bites, the poodle chews it.

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

 

[William Asher]

Howard Kveck <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> In article <[email protected]>,
> Dan Connelly <d_j_c_o_n_n_e_l@i_e_e_e.o_r_g> wrote:
>
>> Each of the RAAM competitors coached by me gets an extensive program
>> of standing
>> start training, focusing on the explosive ATP-dominated acceleration
>> needed to
>> firmly position oneself as a serious competitor right from the the
>> RAAM start line.
>>
>> RAAM isn't won at the start, but it can be lost there!
>>
>> Dan
>
> You know, this could come in handy at the end, too, when it comes
> down to a
> two-up sprint and the riders slow to a crawl playing cat and mouse.
>

Only to get subsumed by the hard-charging peloton. That must suck when
that happens.

Oh wait, the peloton was just a hallucination. Never mind.

--
Bill Asher