Yesterday's blog entry got an unfavorable review for "not being entertaining." Beeotch. What do you think this is, the Colbert Report? In person, being funny is a bit easier. If all else fails you can laugh at my Hyde Pahk accent ya bastidd. Making you chuckle with the written word requires creativity, time, energy, and most of all good ideas.
I had some ideas. The master's pack makes for easy fodder. I thought about noting that when our peloton chatter turns to 'roids, it is hemmaroids we are talking about, not steroids. Yes, we are old and have health problems. I can't believe Viagra doesn't sponsor a cycling team yet. Maybe it's because most masters are married and don't need it. Then there is the facial hair. Cyclists aren't supposed to have any. They just don't. Yeah, Boonen lets himself get a bit scruffy now and then, but that's a new generation thing. Past champions were all clean shaven. Apparently a lot of masters did not get the memo, and the back half of the 45+ pack looks like a Three Dog Night reunion. I mistaked one guy at Perinton for the Orange County Chopper dude.
But see, you humor is like intervals -- it can't be forced. I shouldn't start a paragraph, or sentence for that matter, with but. I am using "it" as my subject too much. There is an awful lot of "I" in my recent crap too. Bad, bad, bad. This whole blogging thing was supposed to help me polish my writing a bit. Now look at this junk.
Then there is plagurism. Not even sure I spelled that correctly. No, I don't intentionally copy anything, and I try to give proper attribution. However, some things, well-received things, are "inspired" by the works of others. After all, this is just a friggin' blog. For the record, I try not to recycle anything without at least adding something meaningful to it, and of course I strive for originality. I don't go out in public enough to know what is a cliche, so some of that stuff is just parrallel thinking. However, the line (Tuesday, April 11, 2006 post) about distress signals sent by the body was too close to what is in Doughty's book to not be considered stealing, so I throw myself at the mercy of the blogland court. The attribution has been added to the archive.
Leading out Big Mig at Wompatuck. Yes, I hope so. I saw him at the Banshee Club a few weeks back and he wasn't looking like the climber he once was. Now that I think of it, he was scheduled to run the James Joyce Ramble 10K this past Sunday, so let me go look up his result...
(this is the part where you go back to work for a few seconds and pretend to be busy. Sorry I didn't provide a break like this yesterday)
OK, 46:57, 333rd place. Not too shabby. I think he said his goal was 48 minutes. So maybe he'll have the confidence to return to Wompatuck. I will be going down soon, but yesterday it rained and the past few weeks it just didn't suit my schedule. I will have to work my runs in on Mondays or on Tuesday mornings, then again later in the week. This morning I took out a USAT license and entered the Rye by the Sea Duathlon on May 27. This means I will have to keep running for at least the rest of May. I have only done one multi-sport event in the past, a low-key MTB duathlon, the Mud, Sweat, and Gears Fiske race in Ashland, way back in the early 90's. That was something like 2-7-2 and the MTB portion was very non-technical. My running was piss poor then, and I got on the bike in the back half of the ragged field after running 8:30's or something. Storming through the wobbly riders, cyclocrossing my way through the tight parts, I think I was the second one off the bike. Of course, on the run I died and was passed by several people. I think I ended up tenth. Rye should go better. It is a 5k-30k-5k and I think the runs are actually only 3 miles and on grass. Hopefully I can do respectable runs and take to the bike in a decent position, and finish the bike leg near the front. This gives me something to train for.
Yes, I know, not funny again. I took two days completely off for the first time this year. Today I am trying to ramp up gently. Hopefully we will see drier weather at Jiminy on Saturday. Thanks for reading. Ya bastidds!
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