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@baiskeli 26793 wrote:

Great advice, Ann. I noticed the same thing myself in this heat. You can have plenty of water, but the heat will still kill you if you don’t eat enough. Easy to forget because it’s not as obvious.

I did that to myself the other day. I was all “I will ride to work! Then I will not eat much lunch because it is so hot! Then I will ride home and go straight to Del Ray and go on a group ride! Then I will die on the way home because I has no blood sugar!”

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@acc 26697 wrote:

Yes of course because who doesn’t want to miss the Men’s Swimming 400 IM preliminary heats? 😎

I dunno, now that I’ve seen Camille LaCourt I’ve suddenly developed a keen interest in men’s swimming

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@DaveK 26773 wrote:

Usually they wouldn’t race against each other – teams have a designated sprinter if they come to the line with more than one racer together. For example – if the USA came together to a bunch sprint in the Olympics they had said that Taylor Phinney would lead out Tyler Farrar for the win. If it was from the breakaway, Tejay Van Garderen and Timmy Duggan had been working for Taylor Phinney to take the win. If for some reason two teammates in a breakaway come to the line together I imagine they’d work it out together beforehand and probably wouldn’t sprint for it. Alberto Contador gave away a stage to a former teammate in last year’s Giro when they came to the line together because he was already in the race lead and didn’t need yet another stage win.

Shorter – they usually work this out in advance.

Thanks! I was wondering how that worked.

My comprehension of the road races this weekend was somewhat confused by my newly-discovered ability to fall asleep during the final approaches.

So for the men’s race I was all “Yay, Team GB!! Zzzz… Kazakhstan!”

And for the women’s race I was all “Yay, Team GB & Team USA! Zzzzz… Netherlands!”

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@pfunkallstar 26760 wrote:

I race my bike and commute – HYBRIDS ARE AMONG US!

So do you ride your commuter bike to the race & carry your race bike? :confused:

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@eminva 26755 wrote:

KelOnWheels, I think I missed something — how are you calculating cadence?

I got me one o’ them fancy bicycle cycle calculator computers. If I put on two magnets I can go twice as fast!

I really WANTED to be out on the trail this morning but I am still dragging from this cold and I just couldn’t get going in time.

It is not helping my conditioning to keep taking weeks off so that I can lie around like a Victorian consumptive.

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@acl 26756 wrote:

What do you mean, teeny?! :confused: Wikipedia says she is 5’2″. That is a perfectly normal human size!

Well she looked very teeny compared to the other riders. Diminutive. Wee. Ickle.

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@PotomacCyclist 26749 wrote:

I don’t quite understand the question. Only one person can win, unless somehow there was a tie (I think).

Sorry, that wasn’t very clear, was it? What I actually meant was can/do multiple people from one team go for the podium, or do they just pick one person that’s going to go for it? Like if all of Team GB was in front, could three guys go for the sprint and try to get all the medals?

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So here’s a thing I was wondering: can two people from the same team win a race, or is that Not Done?

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That’s what we need for the next Olympics – CaBi racing!

Emma Pooley is teeny! I wonder what size bike she rides?

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This race is exciting!

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@Bilsko 26683 wrote:

Friday night coveting.

Gorgeous stuff.

[KelOnWheels]

I’ve been critiquing the kit designs during the dull bits. I like the Dutch & Austrian ones best I think.

It was cool to see Wiggo with his jersey stuffed full of bottles handing em all off to his teammates. The control they have on their bikes is amazing. I can barely get my own water

[KelOnWheels]

Didn’t make it out to go to the class, still tired from this rotten cold. Think I’ll go for a nice slow ride later on.

[KelOnWheels]

…is up watching the Olympic cycling?

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@Jason 26611 wrote:

Strange, my calves havent grown at all since I started commuting in 4 days a week, and its been since March. Maybe too many squats so the biking isnt stimulating them enough?

Your bike is too light

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