classics season

I'm gonna start by saying that CYCLING.TV SUCKS A BIG FAT HAIRY ONE!!!!  If someone out there has the inter web and computer know how, I am calling on you to start a competing internet TV channel that can PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS!!!

Me, Kevin, and Karl got all excited to watch Het Volk yesterday.  So excited that instead of watching the replay later in the afternoon, we decided to do it up over breakfast and watch the action live.  So that means we all meet at K. Molloy's at 8h30 (in the morning).  We were prepared for whatever....Oatmeal, scones, tons of coffee, and of course Belgian Beer.

So what happened?  Those knackers at cycling.tv must be using an old Commodore 64 as there server, because it crashed.  Basically we saw the last 6k of the race with Gilbert killing it for the win.  

Normally, we would have gotten over it and watched the re-run later in the day, but know the finish is spoiled for us!!! All because of those no talent ass clowns at cycling.tv.  Thanks boys. You suck.

In other news, it was the perfect start to the Classics season...We headed out on the bikes at about noon, "WE" being the Empire boys (my team), to get in some miles in what looked like it was turning into a beautiful day in Manhattan...42 degrees, with just a little wind.  So we all rallied, dressed for what was supposed to be a 46 degree day.  By the time we got over the GWB...there was no sun in sight, and temps clearly dropped.  Oh yeah, and it started SNOWING.   Did we turn around...negatory good buddy.  We rolled on, and the snow subsided, and it was just cold...no big deal.  We did a nice 3 hours into upstate NY, and when we got onto 9w for the final go back into the city....the snow stated coming down so hard we could only see about 100m in front of us, not to mention the nastiest head/cross wind you could imagine.  Now remember. We already got snowed on once, and there was still about 4 inches of the crap on the ground, so the roades were wet...so WE were wet too.  We immediately threw the endurance zone out the window and me, Karl, Kevin, and J.Lo started a paceline out of  shear survival instinct...we did that a good half an hour, and got back to the GWB...oh...yeah...then the sun came out.  It hurt alot...I was really cold...pretty much miserable....it was everything a good ride should be.

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