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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!r16g2000vbn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <88ffc157-56c5-4ebf-bb15-498c7f404f3f@r16g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Chapman: Have You Ever Posted as Lou Knee? Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 05:51:15 -0700 (PDT) References:  <4e025f21-7eb9-4a8f-9892-76e523739b62@g19g2000yql.googlegroups.com>     Lines: 64 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1243774275 25302 127.0.0.1 (31 May 2009 12:51:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 12:51:15 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r16g2000vbn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.27; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3977 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:705753

On May 31, 11:36=A0am, spindrift  wrote: > On May 31, 11:30=A0am, Roger Thorpe > > > >  wrote: > > chris French wrote: > > > In message , "Just zis Gu= y, > > > you know?"  writes > > >> On Sun, 31 May 2009 00:12:25 -0700 (PDT), James > > >>  wrote: > > > >>> The forecast was a bit dodgy for today so we didn't risk cycling in= to > > >>> Yokohama, but got the train instead. I had a tasty bowl of noodles = for > > >>> lunch. > > > >> I don't know whether I will ride to choir practice this afternoon, i= t > > >> depends if I decide to stop off at the garden centre on the way back > > >> (though I guess all I want is some rockery stone chips for the > > >> railway, so those would fit in the Brompton pannier). =A0Lovely day, > > >> though. > > > > It is indeed a lovely day, I'm just about to head off to cycle across= to > > > the RSPB reserve at Sandy. Where I will meet the rest of the family a= nd > > > some friends for a regular walk we take there. > > > I hope that your day out is at least as good as the spin I had > > yesterday, 90 miles, five counties, one cream tea one wash at a horse > > trough and another at a roadside spring. > > On the way round I suddenly "got" what someone was writing about a > > couple of days ago w.r.t. not eating enough. I thought it strange at th= e > > time, but when you bonk it really does feel as if your body consumes > > muscles, then brain, then fat. > > > Roger Thorpe- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > The bonk can include swimming amoebas in front of your eyes- when your > blood sugar's way too low. > > I did The Tourmalet in September- about 20 degrees. I started in > Tarbes and bombed down thru Lourdes, over the Tourmalet then back to > Lourdes to get the train. > > In 8 hours I drank a coffee, two ojs, a litre of that strawberry > yoghurt stuff, two cans of fizzy orange and 4 litres of water and a > beer. > > I didn't pee until the summit cafe.

Keep deluding yourself that you actually cycle, or indeed did any of that. Been Googling on The Tourmalet, and what happens when a real cyclist's blood sugar gets too low? You sad, mentally disturbed bar steward. "If I keep pretending that I cycle, people might actually believe that I'm pro-cycling, rather than just anti-car." But no-one does.