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How to race...
by Ivor » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:40 am
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Re: How to race...
by Sylv » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:10 pm
soooo true 
[quote]Being in a breakaway is like going from a cushy job at a big company with a regular paycheck to a really hard job at a tiny company where you have to work 16 hour days on commission only and people are always yelling at you. And trust me—someone will yell at you. Every break has a self-appointed driver who is really mean and constantly shouts stuff like, “Short pulls!†and “Rotate!†and “Pull off into the wind!†and then gets indignant when you say “But I don’t wanna rotate!†since just want to sit on the back crying because you miss those fun cubicle days when all your friends were around and you didn’t have to do any real work.
[quote]Being in a breakaway is like going from a cushy job at a big company with a regular paycheck to a really hard job at a tiny company where you have to work 16 hour days on commission only and people are always yelling at you. And trust me—someone will yell at you. Every break has a self-appointed driver who is really mean and constantly shouts stuff like, “Short pulls!†and “Rotate!†and “Pull off into the wind!†and then gets indignant when you say “But I don’t wanna rotate!†since just want to sit on the back crying because you miss those fun cubicle days when all your friends were around and you didn’t have to do any real work.
[quote]Occasionally though, you may be tempted to try to lift the pace or “make a move.†But it is absolutely essential to always remember the first rule of pass/fail racing and stay where the people are. Because if you do go off the front, nobody’s going to follow you since you’re a pass/fail racer and they are too and they know better than to get mixed up in some fool’s errand with you. Then you wind up alone in no-man’s land. If you don’t know what no-man’s land is, it’s kind of like that period after you learned what the cycling-related jokes on the Primal jerseys meant, but before you figured out that it was totally uncool to wear them, so you just rode around alone wearing a Primal jersey and looking ridiculous. And that’s what will happen if you go off the front. You’ll wind up alone, between the field and the break, looking ridiculous.
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