due to the fact that this is a family forum, i can't post the picture of williams' cycling shorts here. It is available on my blog - it's at the bottom, just scroll down. http://cyclingwith.blogspot.com/2009/12/rock-roll.html
It will most likely be on team lickety split's website as well :) 2009/12/21 cairnswm <[email protected]> > I don't mind falling, well not that much. I dont even mind getting > hurt (I have walked 8kms on a broken ankle before). But tearing my > cycling pants I really really dislike! > > On thursday night 7 of us got together to do a Dark n Dirty ride. With > a brave trail meister, a sweeper, 2 newbies, 1 nearly newbie we had a > Dark n Dirty group. I left my light at home and had to buy a super > cheap Pic n Pay special headlamp. The usual warning was given about > first one to climb off their bike without meaning to gets to write the > report. > > Off we went into the dark... and the brave trail meister got lost, > with a sudden stop he started looking around for the path. While > everyone was trying to help find the path nobody saw me half fall off > onto my knee. > > So once the path was found we went peddalling off into the dark. But > on the wrong path. This time I was seen to land on my knee. It wasn't > so obvious as nobody really suggested I write the report. The brave > trail meister realised he had the wrong route, and stopped to find the > right route - over I went onto my knee again - my knee by now was sore > from three gentle falls onto it - even the blood streaming down my leg > didn't really let onto anyone that I had fallen. > > So off the brave trail meister went - on the route he was originally > looking for - and he fell badly, upended the bike, feet in the air, > bike light disconnected and everything. "Oops" he says. > > Down past cornwall hill we went. My not-so-super-bright light made it > a ride of note - 30km (yeah brakes on) down a vertical slope when you > cannot see the angles makes it a lot of fun! > > Our super trail meister gave us a running commentary of what each hill > was called (but I have forgotten most of them) so I sort of got to > know which hill was which. With 3 pretty much newbies in the group we > had to do the 'sprint to the light - it is only about 200m away' which > is actually a 2km sprint but catches the newbies every time! > > I now know which hill is the mine shaft - not nearly as bad as it > sounds, the python - which we did as fast as we could, Look Ma no > Brakes - where I went straight over the handle bars, bike following > until my foot slipped out of the shoe - by now I was getting tired of > falling. > > Then on the last simple little single track back to Moo Mall I fell > again, smashed onto my elbow and shoulder BUT my shorts caught onto > the sadle and ripped a hole the size and shape of Zimbabwe in my > shorts. (Carine took a rude photo of my bum as proof - and there is > far too much bum showing for a civilized race report). > > So let me repeat, I dont mind falling (though 5 times in one night was > a bit much), I dont mind getting hurt (blood running down my leg is > fine), but I really object to getting my cycling shorts torn! > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DarkAndDirty" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<darkanddirty%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/darkanddirty?hl=en. > > > -- http://cyclingwith.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DarkAndDirty" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/darkanddirty?hl=en.
