Back with a Vengeance. This time it's Personal

[Gai M]

HJ

I thought you weren't one to bite so easily.


Did you think I was  really serious in my last post ?


Of course, there is "an element of truth" in my comments.


Someone  I know often wears a T-shirt bearing the slogan
"No one trains to be second"

I think it is fair to say that no-one trains to be last/lapped/etc.
(occasionally is bearable but frequently is very discouraging).


also, if I am beaten by a male (teen-aged to 40,say, wouldn't this
be a "hollow victory" too ?

 -Just a thought.

[Daddy Walrus]

Chillax.
I can smash my son in Wii tennis. It doesn't stop me dancing around the room, laughing in his face, telling him he will never be any good. Sometimes I wake him up in the night to remind him.

[Metro Commuter]

DW,

Enjoy the Wii wins while you can - your son will beat you eventually, as mine does now, and he will laugh at you as you shave your legs and tell tall tales about wins at Kooragang...

[Robbo]

HJ

I thought you weren't one to bite so easily.


Did you think I was  really serious in my last post ?


Of course, there is "an element of truth" in my comments.


Someone  I know often wears a T-shirt bearing the slogan
"No one trains to be second"

I think it is fair to say that no-one trains to be last/lapped/etc.
(occasionally is bearable but frequently is very discouraging).


also, if I am beaten by a male (teen-aged to 40,say, wouldn't this
be a "hollow victory" too ?

 -Just a thought.

Think you prob meant me not HJ.

Yep, the teen-aged to 50 y/o riders would see beating you to the line as a "hollow victory", thats why they dont bother celebrating it. Sorry but its a fact.

[Gai M]

Robbo,


When replying to the comments re racing/chasing

I chose to single out HJ as he started the ball rolling (down the hill where I was at the bottom)
and I remembered that back in the thread re le Tour, he made claims about not biting any bait.

I tried to retrieve this as a quote, but failed to get it to work.

I knew that you had alluded to hollow victories, but I was mindful of the second half of
the title of this thread.

I realize that when the Y chromosome set beat me, that they will not be gloating.  However, this doesn't
stop me from doing the opposite.

Almost every competition I enter, at whatever level, I have next to no peers. 

I tend to interpret the deafening silence as a (passive) statement that my endeavours are inadequate.

[Daddy Walrus]

Gai,
Your committment to racing is commendable. I would like to be racing in my 50's and 60's if I was still competitive. Robbo may be back racing by then.

[2ndwheel]

DW

ther are many fine examples of over 50's in local racing that are still extremly commpetitive and fast, and what ther age robs of them in outright speed is made up for in shear years of experience and race craft. Although Robbo may miss out alround as he in not in his 50,s yet although he looks like he should be also in is not fast anymore and race craft Hmmmmmmmm.

Yours truly

over 50 but not out yet.

[Robbo]

2ndwheel,

on the subject of r,,,,,,, hang on, sorry, I'm a bit busy with this working out this weeks handicaps.. I will get back to you!

Looking forward to seeing you

[2ndwheel]

Round robbo

With all the praise i have been giving i will be looking  for a generous hcp.

[Metro Commuter]

'Alf wheeler,


Oh p-lllleeeeeeaaaasssseee.  An elite and proper sprinter like you, with more wins than I havee had meals - and yes, clearly there have been a ship load of those - I reckon you'd be off scratch every week. Bloody burglars everywhere.