Wednesday, August 15, 2007

dying to cry.

the response to the post below titled 'pro', has been over-whelming.

and i can see why.

everyone is clamoring for reasons why they sucked against the likes of bergman.

i started it off by venting just a little, but i really don't think i was railing on the pro.
i simply posed the question, "what was his point?".

was it training? experience? fun? (god forbid).

what happened next is really beyond me to explain.
several local riders got excessively angry, and were demanding to know what my point was, , how dare i bad mouth the pro, what did i do, blah blah.

as much as i repeatedly told them it was all in the post, and to read it, they continued to demand answers.

they were basically, frothing at the mouth at this point, bringing up all kinds of weird shit that didn't have anything to do with anything. tangents.

it was sad, and obvious, that they were dying to know why they sucked that night too, and they wanted answers from me.

so there it is boys, are you ready?

are you sitting down?

i don't have an answer.

i posed a question.

dumb asses.

trackies must have the adreniline pumping fulltime, because the only two people that made any sense in all those comments, were homme and jroy.

two non-trackies.

kudos you guys.

...

now that that is settled, i'm moving on.

sickboy has decided to open his mouth.

so now i have to shut it.

here's what he had to say, regarding a previous race against bergman:
What you did in that points race about a month back was not "racing Bergman." It was "taking advantage of a shitty rule and ensuring yourself third place." I'll give you credit for being opportunistic, and using it to your advantage to beat the rest of us schloobheimers, but using that as a backup to your claim that you "know how the fuck to race Bergman" is a complete crock, so don't lord it over us. At no point were you ever in contention with him, you merely used him twice for free rides around the track while your loudmouthed teammate ran interference. Good on you, bad on us for falling for it- I hope you enjoyed it because it's never happening again.
here's what happened.

- race begins.
- at some point bergman and dubay go otf, soon skibby and i go otb.
- skibby and i are working hard, getting nowhere.
- i swing up track, and recover for a bit. skibby continues.
- bergman and dubay come by, i hope on.
- rules state that i cannot take pulls to help them, so i don't.
- they tow me, past skibby, and back to the peloton.
- once in the group, bergman and dubay go out for another lap.
- i sit in and recover.
- after the next points sprint, i roll otf.
- bergman and dubay are 50-70 meters ahead of me the whole time.
- no one in the field, including my teammates, realize i am in no-mans-land.
- i kill myself to get all the way around and lap the field about 1 min after bergman and dubay get their 2nd lap.
- my teammates ask me to help lead them out to secure a 5th place.
- i tell them i just got a lap and am in 3rd.
- they look confused.
- sickboy thinks he got 3rd place, too.
- but he was too tactically dumb to notice a rider otf.
- now he is sad.
- still.
- he pathetically tries to blame everyone but himself.
- going as far as to try to blame a rider that finished a lap up on him.
- and blaming the uscf rulebook.

there you have it.

now, to be perfectly clear, i don't have an answer.

no answers.

but i am going to pose a question.

remember now kids: this kind of question is one that i want you to answer. not me.

here it is;

can sickboy be a bigger whining ass crybaby bitch? is it possible?
after all the railing on me that he did for blaming bergman for beating me, (which i never did), he blames me for beating him.

what say you readers?

14 comments:

Lunatic Biker said...

I think you're a really nice young man and I don't have anything bad to say about you.

(dis)pencer said...

further proof that you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Unknown said...

see you guys on a night when it's not raining.. i may be sitting over by mark stewart and the Johnsons.. no offense intended but they seem to have better things to talk about.

Unknown said...

i meant thompsons

Christopher Smith said...

Your blog is now boring again.

(dis)pencer said...

thank god.

Gilby said...

Let's see...what the point of Bergman riding off the front and lapping everyone? Maybe, um....gee....trying to win the race? Gee, what a concept.

There's nothing tactically dumb about riding off the front when you can. And just because the field is content to sit up for the rest of the race doesn't mean he has to. WRT the comment in the original post that "it really throws the dynamic of the race off": That's a valid argument when you're a beginning level rider, but not when your license says "cat 2". You should be embracing the opportunity to experience that different dynamic. Track racing isn't about that, you say? Oh, no: it is ALL about that.

Newsbreak: compared to national level, our local riders (self included) are pretty mediocre at best. You're my teammate and I like you, so I'm not going to sugarcoat it for you. Want to compete at elite nats? Then quit bitching, work on trying to chase Bergman down, and get faster. With Bergman showing up and Crosby about to bring back higher speeds & invaluable experience, you should be thanking your lucky stars that the bar is being raised.

T3 said...

should be thanking your lucky stars that the bar is being raised

stars? i thought it was stars baby stars...


p.s. racing at the track makes me feel old and slow. reading people bitching about racing at the track makes me feel just old. are you guys 12?

AdamB said...

awesome!

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(dis)pencer said...

gilby,

your boyfriend is not your teammate.

i assume thats who you're speaking to, because he is the one bitching about me abusing rules to lap the field.
(i.e. off the front, a good tactic in your words. gee what a concept).

Gilby said...

No, I can assure you I was addressing the person who didn't want to spend $15 on an LT workout.

(Whatever disagreements you and Sickboy have with each other is between you & him.)

(dis)pencer said...

don't you think that's expensive?

Gilby said...

I can't push myself as hard in training as I do when I pay $15 to race, so I figure it's a great value! :D