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Friday, August 29, 2008

Water Bottles: Green Water Edition

I don't know if you know, but I know that Versus is showing Tour of Ireland coverage at 6:00 PM, or at least seems to be doing so over the last couple days. Lovely, lovely scenery, decent racing, and a full range of Irish accents from Northern protestant to broad Southern Catholic to Australian-who-rides-for-Ireland-because-Great-Grandad-was-shipped-from-there-in-chains Irish accent. Begosh & Begorrah, it's racin on Versus! You wouldn't know this unless you happen to be a fan of Punkass, Skyscrape & Mask, the mixed martial arts version of Michael Ball (e.g. less mouthy because getting your ass kicked by a guy who specializes in that sort of thing is scarier and more plausible than getting your ass kicked by a 145 pound pro cyclist.) If you watch MMA on Versus, maybe you'd see ads for the Tour of Ireland. If not... well, you'd have to be searching around in desperation at 6:00 PM for something that's safe for your four year-old to watch, and just happen across it. The Versus schedule is here, and they often stick to it.

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Did the local version of the Muffin Ride with Jon this AM. Sparse attendance - didn't hear from Kidd, Young Tom is now College Tom and living in some dorm in upper Balmer, or thereabouts. Still it was a nice ride, the company was great as usual and the bridge on Rt. 450 is re-opened, with its champagne-smooth covering of new tarmac. The line at Caribou was slow since the college girls seem to have gone back to school, but all in all, it was a great hour of relaxation. In the words of a great man... I like, yes...

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I know we had some music yesterday, but how 'bout some Beastie Boys to put some funk in your trunk? I have this cued up in the MP3 player and play it when I'm riding long hills - it's a good song to keep your rhythm to on a long climb.



Pull Up At The Function And You Know I Kojak
To All The Party People That Are On My Bozak
I've Got More Action Than My Man John Woo
And I've Got Mad Hits Like I Was Rod Carew
You Can't, You Won't And You Don't Stop
You Can't, You Won't And You Don't Stop
You Can't, You Won't And You Don't Stop
Ad Rock come and rock the Sure Shot


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2 comments:

Boz said...

My group ride plan got hailed out last night, but I got in a nice ride anyway.
BTW, I appreciate your music posts. Sometimes a guy gets in a rut, music-wise, and a reminder is needed.

Big Mike said...

I think it's cute that you have a song - just one song - for long climbs. There's only one long climb near here and it's length varies dramatically. Some of the local pros can get up it in a single playing of the Grease-mega-mix. As a teenager I could reach the top in about the time it takes to play two Meat Loaf tracks.

These days that exact same hill takes me the best part of an entire Queen Greatest Hits double album.

To quote another great crooner: "The times they are a-changin'."