Handicap races I can handle, and hilly races I can handle, but the two together is a bridge too far for me at this point. Three laps into a four lap race and I was done. After being swooped by a magpie - the bastards always seem to know when you're at your most vulnerable - I had ample time to think about what would happen when I finally rolled in. People would ask, "What happened to you?" and I'd say, "Well, I blew up." But this wasn't good enough for me. If you're going to lose, you have to be funny about it. So I started thinking about similies to echo my predicament. Sean the Man is fond of using "I blew like a hooker," but I like to think I only use highbrow material, so I ruled that out. The obvious comparison with things that blow up led me down some other unsavoury laneways (like an English pub in Belfast...), but eventually I settled on, "I blew up like the Hindenburg," and repeated it ad nauseum.
Here's a pic of me attacking the Pastoria hill:
Oh the humanity.
The Man and I hit up
the store on the way home. DC, obviously sick of hearing every similie we had amassed on the hour-long journey home, decided that I should have a better chance of not blowing up in the hills, and prepared for me my new bike. You can read about it (and see pictures of me camping up the place)
here.
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That magpie has been in the same place for at least 3 years. I think it's chosen that spot purely to chase cyclists as we attempt to go uphill... makes it hard when you ain't so good at climbing! The bloody thing swooped me 4 times on my first lap and once on my second. Each time I was riding solo. When I was caught by significantly faster riders on my third I didn't think it was worth playing chase with it again, so I turned around!
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