everybody gets a hug
May 28, 2009
The nice thing about the Special Olympics is that EVERYBODY gets a hug at the end. This afternoon, Elden and I held our very own, private Special Olympics.
The ride went down pretty much exactly as Elden predicted–he went out hard, I tried to keep myself under control, he got a gap, I wanted to die. And on the second lap, we reversed everything but our actual locations.
Unfortunately, I felt SO icky on the first lap that I could have felt like Sam or Brad on the second lap and it wouldn’t have mattered. At the top of Clarks on the first lap, I seriously considered getting off and walking. Elvis and I spent some quality time together, reminiscing about his Army days.
But on the second lap, I felt good enough so as to harbor real ambitions of closing the gap. That was stupid. Although, in my defense, I think I could have shaved several minutes off my time if I hadn’t been attacked by a few thousand inch worms. I’m STILL picking them out of my hair and, um, other places.
But at least at the finish, I got my Fat Cyclist hug. Remember in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, when Ruprecht the Monkey Boy (Steve Martin) hugs that woman from Omaha, Lady Fanny of Omaha? The hug gets pretty uncomfortable, and Lawrence Chesterton (Michael Caine) has to threaten him with the genital cuff.
It was like that.
May 28, 2009 at 9:04 pm
I’m surprised you didn’t pull out the win. I was giving you better odds. That Elden is a fast healer, er, fast weight-dropper fitness-gainer.
Classic scene from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – one of my favorite comedies. The film isn’t hilarious all the way through, but the good scenes are really good. It’s worth watching for the “may I go to the bathroom?” scene alone, not to mention the running switch across the bare legs.
May 29, 2009 at 1:50 pm
My favourite too! and my wife uses it whenever we have my family over for dinner. It cracks me up just thinking about it.
May 28, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Oh great. Inchworm season again.
http://epicriding.com/2008/06/dont-eat-worm.html
But at least you got to race the real course…
May 28, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Not mother?
May 28, 2009 at 9:34 pm
I am crestfallen. First Pioneer of the Nile and now you.
May has been full of disappointment.
May 29, 2009 at 9:49 am
and the month isn’t over.
May 28, 2009 at 10:57 pm
You are a WINNER in my book! I too was attacked by the worms. I had one fall off my jersey and land in Quincy’s crib tonight while tucking her in.
May 29, 2009 at 4:39 am
i double dog dare you to go running through the trail on the next ride, holding a pot over your head and hitting it with a wooden spoon yelling, “Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Oklahoma”.
May 29, 2009 at 7:32 am
Oh man. Must skip the gloating session that sure to come on fatcyclist.com.
May 29, 2009 at 8:22 am
Don’t hate yourself ! You’ll get him next time, Mister Happy!
May 29, 2009 at 8:30 am
I was wondering what those little black things were sticking to me on my ride yesterday.
Nice race.
May 29, 2009 at 9:11 am
Did you properly inflate your tires? I’m sure it came down to running the wrong PSI.
May 29, 2009 at 9:28 am
haha yes, blame it on the inchworms. I rode clarks and ghost yesterday, showered twice, and still woke up with one crawling on my arm this morning. Sneaky devils!
May 29, 2009 at 9:33 am
Rick S is on to something. I vaguely remember a post about you having tires full of water once? That Fatty guy is too nice. I do not trust nice people.
May 29, 2009 at 9:34 am
Have yet to explore the Corner Canyon, but inchworms might keep me away for a while–just not a fan of mass bug attacks (Rode through a thick, THICK cloud of gnat-like flying yuckies a few years back near Sundance and think a few are still stuck in the hair on my arms!).
May 29, 2009 at 10:09 am
[...] Dug were a car racing video game, he would be one of those where you have to earn your turbo boost [...]
May 29, 2009 at 10:21 am
I saw the hug, and it was worse than an inchworm crawling up….well you get the idea.
May 29, 2009 at 10:26 am
bees, inchworms, what’s next?
May 29, 2009 at 10:44 am
i think these were inch worms from the set of The Wrath of Khan. but friendlier.
May 29, 2009 at 11:16 am
“KHHAAAAAAN!”
May 29, 2009 at 10:49 am
Just how long were these inch worms, anyway?
May 29, 2009 at 12:10 pm
huh. Elden completely left out the hug.
May 29, 2009 at 10:09 pm
dug went first. i wanted to complement his post, not redunticize it.
May 29, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Thanks for the references to the best scene of a GREAT movie. Laughing at that made me forget about feeling a little guilty for laughing at the Special Olympics reference.
May 29, 2009 at 1:51 pm
You’re still special … in an Olympic sort of way.
May 29, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Yea for hugs!