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 2009-08-21 1:42 PM |
Champion  10471    Dallas, TX |  Subject: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures!So last weekend I was barely able to keep up on my group ride. I was struggling big time. This picture was taken about 10 miles into the ride. Yes, it was a sucky ride from hell. One of the riders takes pictures of the group... and he was at the top of the hill taking a picture of the group. All right, look far back from the group, there is a tiny dot next to the that tree/bush. Yep, that tiny little dot. That's me. That's what it looks like when I get dropped from the group. The group is together. I am WAY in the back. Being left by the group to ride alone. Don't get picture gems like this too often! In fact, it's my first picture of me getting dropped in 5 years of riding! Anyone else got some "no so impressive moments" pictures to share?  |
| 2009-08-21 1:52 PM in reply to: #2362822 |
Pro 4054 yep, | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! I think your so far back because your seat is too high. But I can barely make it out to be honest. |
| 2009-08-21 1:58 PM in reply to: #2362852 |
Cycling Guru 15134 Fulton, MD | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! Me in the visor and the blue Team Gu shirt. Yeah ....... Getting chicked AND old-manned in the same race! (But I did actually catch up to both of them in the race, they just finished ahead of me). (RemRun5k-09.jpg) Attachments ---------------- RemRun5k-09.jpg (98KB - 2 downloads) |
| 2009-08-21 1:59 PM in reply to: #2362871 |
Champion 10471 Dallas, TX | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! Nice one! Daremo - 2009-08-21 1:58 PM Me in the visor and the blue Team Gu shirt. Yeah ....... Getting chicked AND old-manned in the same race! (But I did actually catch up to both of them in the race, they just finished ahead of me). |
| 2009-08-21 2:01 PM in reply to: #2362875 |
Cycling Guru 15134 Fulton, MD | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! To give credit where credit is due ..... I've only beaten Sherri in a race once out of about the 7 or 8 we've run in at the same time. She's pretty damn awesome! I did not know who the older guy was. |
| 2009-08-21 2:02 PM in reply to: #2362822 |
Expert 1118 , North Carolina | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! Oh, wow... Bless your heart! And how big of you to share the photo! I can't even ride well enough to go with a group..... yet. I have a friend who did my first Tri with me and he did it on his mountain bike with nubbies and I had a hybrid. He loved the Tri so much that he said we should join a Tri group! He can be very naive and I had to laugh because our average speed out biking is like 12 mph. I can just see us trying to keep up with a group with any dignity. But that's ok because it can only get better from here. And if I'm still hooked after my next two Tri's, I may buy myself a Christmas present! |
| 2009-08-21 2:05 PM in reply to: #2362822 |
Resident Curmudgeon 25290 The Road Back Gold member | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! A picture of me getting dropped on a group ride would be rare also, but only because I've never had a picture taken at a group training ride. So, is it rare that you were dropped or rare that it was photographed?  |
| 2009-08-21 2:13 PM in reply to: #2362891 |
Champion 10471 Dallas, TX | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! the bear - 2009-08-21 2:05 PM A picture of me getting dropped on a group ride would be rare also, but only because I've never had a picture taken at a group training ride. So, is it rare that you were dropped or rare that it was photographed? I needed to specifiy... it was rare that a picture of me getting dropped was taken... not that I was getting dropped. I get dropped on my group rides on a regular basis. If it weren't for stop lights, I would end up riding alone, vs. 1 mile back trying to catch them. HA! Anyways... it's a fact of life for me. I'm OK with sharing it... because it's just FUNNY!!!!!  |
| 2009-08-21 2:14 PM in reply to: #2362882 |
Champion 10471 Dallas, TX | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! maria40nc - 2009-08-21 2:02 PM Oh, wow... Bless your heart! And how big of you to share the photo! I can't even ride well enough to go with a group..... yet. I have a friend who did my first Tri with me and he did it on his mountain bike with nubbies and I had a hybrid. He loved the Tri so much that he said we should join a Tri group! He can be very naive and I had to laugh because our average speed out biking is like 12 mph. I can just see us trying to keep up with a group with any dignity. But that's ok because it can only get better from here. And if I'm still hooked after my next two Tri's, I may buy myself a Christmas present! Well there are group rides for ALL abilities. We have some group rides for people who do a 12 mph average. Tri clubs... well they probably have people who ride at a faster mph average. So you might be best served looking for a local cycling club. I ride with my cycling club. Eh, I don't mind sharing the photo. It happens (for me- all the time). I thought it was funny! |
| 2009-08-21 2:15 PM in reply to: #2362871 |
| Pro 4054 yep, | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! Daremo - 2009-08-21 2:58 PM Me in the visor and the blue Team Gu shirt. Yeah ....... Getting chicked AND old-manned in the same race! (But I did actually catch up to both of them in the race, they just finished ahead of me).
If he didn't have the Conan O'Brien hair peice then he probably would have caught and easily passed both of those people |
| 2009-08-21 2:26 PM in reply to: #2362822 |
Pro 5011 Twin Cities | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! Ah, if only I had some pictures of me racing at the velodrome. |
 2009-08-21 2:33 PM in reply to: #2362822 |
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| 2009-08-21 2:33 PM in reply to: #2362878 |
| Extreme Veteran 385 shenandoah valley | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! Daremo - 2009-08-21 3:01 PM To give credit where credit is due ..... I've only beaten Sherri in a race once out of about the 7 or 8 we've run in at the same time. She's pretty damn awesome! I did not know who the older guy was. Maybe you should head over to COJ and the confessions thread to confess that your losses are due to enjoying the view...  distractions distractions.be well. |
| 2009-08-21 2:55 PM in reply to: #2362822 |
Extreme Veteran 887 Lake Placid, NY | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! I love this thread! BT won't let me insert the pic nicely, but here's one of me after a supposedly fast, flat, PR-setting 5K. Unfortunately the heat got to me, I bonked, and finished about two minutes later than I wanted to. http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/photos/show-album.asp?albumid=12938&photoid=108740 Here's one of me coming out from a disasterous swim in my first tri on Monday. One of my friends commented that I looked like I was about to hurl! LOL! http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/photos/show-album.asp?albumid=12938&photoid=108741 |
| 2009-08-21 2:56 PM in reply to: #2363050 |
| Champion 10471 Dallas, TX | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! WOW! In both those pictures you are looking pretty rough girl! Thanks for sharing! At least in my picture I'm a tiny dot. PinkPrincess - 2009-08-21 2:55 PM I love this thread! BT won't let me insert the pic nicely, but here's one of me after a supposedly fast, flat, PR-setting 5K. Unfortunately the heat got to me, I bonked, and finished about two minutes later than I wanted to. http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/photos/show-album.asp?albumid=12938&photoid=108740 Here's one of me coming out from a disasterous swim in my first tri on Monday. One of my friends commented that I looked like I was about to hurl! LOL! http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/photos/show-album.asp?albumid=12938&photoid=108741 |
| 2009-08-21 3:21 PM in reply to: #2362822 |
| Champion 11989 Philly 'burbs | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! I was hurting at the finish of a local 5 mile. I pushed it hard (for me) with a 7:00 avg on a hilly course  |
| 2009-08-21 3:30 PM in reply to: #2363120 |
| Cycling Guru 15134 Fulton, MD | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! Same race shirt I wore yesterday! ^^^^ |
| 2009-08-21 3:36 PM in reply to: #2363141 |
| Champion 8540 the colony texas | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! I'm just laughing at the "getting old manned" line... when I"m passing people at the end of any race if they are younger than me, I tell them "don't let this old man beat you" if I can breathe enough to talk at least. |
| 2009-08-21 3:38 PM in reply to: #2363159 |
| Resident Curmudgeon 25290 The Road Back Gold member | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! Gaarryy - 2009-08-21 3:36 PM I'm just laughing at the "getting old manned" line... when I"m passing people at the end of any race if they are younger than me, I tell them "don't let this old man beat you" if I can breathe enough to talk at least. Ha! Mee too, except it's "You're not going to let a fat, old, bald guy beat you, are you?" Young guy last week, about 500 yards from the finish, said, "Well yes, yes I am!" |
| 2009-08-21 3:39 PM in reply to: #2362822 |
| Champion 6931 Bellingham, Washington | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! |
| 2009-08-21 3:41 PM in reply to: #2363169 |
| Expert 973 Berkeley, Calif. | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! the bear - 2009-08-21 1:38 PM Ha! Mee too, except it's "You're not going to let a fat, old, bald guy beat you, are you?" Young guy last week, about 500 yards from the finish, said, "Well yes, yes I am!" Ha!! I've got to appreciate a guy who knows his limits *and* has a sense of humor. |
| 2009-08-21 4:43 PM in reply to: #2362822 |
| Master 1920 Ann Arbor, MI | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! This was an awful moment for me (in red):  Yup, that's the finish. I was in the lead for almost the whole race, then neck and neck for the last 3 miles, and I friggin' fall, 2 feet from the finish line. Ugh. Edited by jazz82482 2009-08-21 4:43 PM |
| 2009-08-21 4:54 PM in reply to: #2363307 |
| Folsom, CA (Sacramento Area) | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! jazz82482 - 2009-08-21 2:43 PM This was an awful moment for me (in red): Yup, that's the finish. I was in the lead for almost the whole race, then neck and neck for the last 3 miles, and I friggin' fall, 2 feet from the finish line. Ugh. That's an amazing finish and it was captured on the newspaper. Even if you did not get 1st place, This is an amazing story to tell with the newspaper story to back it up. Nice job !! |
| 2009-08-21 4:59 PM in reply to: #2363307 |
| Expert 908 Niskayuna, New York | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! jazz82482 - 2009-08-21 5:43 PM This was an awful moment for me (in red): Yup, that's the finish. I was in the lead for almost the whole race, then neck and neck for the last 3 miles, and I friggin' fall, 2 feet from the finish line. Ugh. wow what an incredible picture! I remember when Julie swept both races that weekend, then reading your RR for the HIM. Still the best race report I've read to this day! |
| 2009-08-21 5:21 PM in reply to: #2362871 |
| Expert 1296 | Subject: RE: I have a picture of me getting dropped on a group ride! Share your pictures! Daremo - 2009-08-21 2:58 PM Me in the visor and the blue Team Gu shirt. Yeah ....... Getting chicked AND old-manned in the same race! (But I did actually catch up to both of them in the race, they just finished ahead of me). My question is.... Why does the dead corpse and the chick look like they are breathing hard and "working" and you looking like your about ready to ask the people on the corner if you look good or not? LOL Just Kidding! |
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