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Last weekend was the season opening road race. Most years someone
pulls something together on an earlier weekend but that didn't happen this year. The course features endless rollers. I think if you calculated elevation gain per distance it would have as much climbing as any local race, but it comes at you bit by bit. People come off the back one by one, and it doesn't happen until the rider is completely blown. It isn't uncommon at all to see a rider at the top of a climb really struggling to turn the pedals. It's a deceptively brutal loop. The featured race had political intrigue and betrayal as a small group got away on the last big climb and established a winning gap, which they couldn't find the cohesion to maintain until the finish. So they were swallowed up within sight of the finish line and it came down to a sprint. As I was following races and watching this I had the Metropolitan Opera broadcast on in the car. The program was Siegfried, the 3rd work in Wagner's Ring Cycle. I had it on pretty loud, it was very appropriate. In a disquieting sort of way. No dragons though. Bob Schwartz |
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On Apr 23, 10:43*am, Bob Schwartz
wrote: Last weekend was the season opening road race. Most years someone pulls something together on an earlier weekend but that didn't happen this year. The course features endless rollers. I think if you calculated elevation gain per distance it would have as much climbing as any local race, but it comes at you bit by bit. People come off the back one by one, and it doesn't happen until the rider is completely blown. It isn't uncommon at all to see a rider at the top of a climb really struggling to turn the pedals. It's a deceptively brutal loop. The featured race had political intrigue and betrayal as a small group got away on the last big climb and established a winning gap, which they couldn't find the cohesion to maintain until the finish. So they were swallowed up within sight of the finish line and it came down to a sprint. As I was following races and watching this I had the Metropolitan Opera broadcast on in the car. The program was Siegfried, the 3rd work in Wagner's Ring Cycle. I had it on pretty loud, it was very appropriate. In a disquieting sort of way. No dragons though. Bob Schwartz I really like racing those rolling loop course! Rick in Tennessee |
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Bob Schwartz wrote:
Last weekend was the season opening road race. Most years someone pulls something together on an earlier weekend but that didn't happen this year. The course features endless rollers. I think if you calculated elevation gain per distance it would have as much climbing as any local race, but it comes at you bit by bit. People come off the back one by one, and it doesn't happen until the rider is completely blown. It isn't uncommon at all to see a rider at the top of a climb really struggling to turn the pedals. It's a deceptively brutal loop. The featured race had political intrigue and betrayal as a small group got away on the last big climb and established a winning gap, which they couldn't find the cohesion to maintain until the finish. So they were swallowed up within sight of the finish line and it came down to a sprint. As I was following races and watching this I had the Metropolitan Opera broadcast on in the car. The program was Siegfried, the 3rd work in Wagner's Ring Cycle. I had it on pretty loud, it was very appropriate. In a disquieting sort of way. No dragons though. Bob Schwartz Somehow Siegfried seems more appropriate than what Leth used in "La Cours en Tete" which I'm pretty sure was David Munroe and the Early Music Consort of London playing dances from Terpsichore by Praetorius. Steve -- Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS http://www.dentaltwins.com Brooklyn, NY 718-258-5001 |
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Bob Schwartz wrote: Last weekend was the season opening road race. Most years someone pulls something together on an earlier weekend but that didn't happen this year. The course features endless rollers. I think if you calculated elevation gain per distance it would have as much climbing as any local race, but it comes at you bit by bit. People come off the back one by one, and it doesn't happen until the rider is completely blown. It isn't uncommon at all to see a rider at the top of a climb really struggling to turn the pedals. It's a deceptively brutal loop. The featured race had political intrigue and betrayal as a small group got away on the last big climb and established a winning gap, which they couldn't find the cohesion to maintain until the finish. So they were swallowed up within sight of the finish line and it came down to a sprint. As I was following races and watching this I had the Metropolitan Opera broadcast on in the car. The program was Siegfried, the 3rd work in Wagner's Ring Cycle. I had it on pretty loud, it was very appropriate. In a disquieting sort of way. No dragons though. My favorite part is when the bird gives Siegfried the gift of hearing what people are really saying and Mime is lying his head of at Siegfried and Siegfried keeps replying to what Mime is _thinking_. What a hoot. -- Michael Press |
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