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with friends Buddy the leg breaker had the pedal to the metal today. what's kurtee doing back there? Great to have Al out today! Sanford was rad today... getting ready to head out for 20 miles of bliss Heads up Blakely! There we go. that's a great group shot... chilling at the 10.3 mile point... My sweet Monkey 8 lbs since nationals, blew out my vest... I am

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An Agreeable Sound: Steevo from Matt Dayak on Vimeo. Pat Benatar, not so much. Starting to come out of the fog a little. I promise to post something other than videos that make me smile soon. Might even ride a bike. The sun is slowly rising. respect vanderbacon

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Bones Brigade Doc Trailer | Transworld Skateboarding (click above, you won't be disappointed) respect vanderbacon

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respect vanderbacon

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Haven't ridden a bike in 10 days. Not super motivated yet. 2012 will be a different year for me. I know one thing, come Mid April, I'll be at the Baker's Dozen. I'll be part if the Experience. The Neil Patrick Harris Experience. How could you tell this guy no? Hopefully this guy will round out the group... will be a fun day. Will have to start riding bikes soon... respect vanderbacon

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It would totally mess with my brothers like this: The Horrifying Downside to Being a Superhero's Brother -- powered by Cracked.com respect Vanderbacon

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So, ah what happened? Well,  2 laps into a 5 lap race, I pulled into the pit and pulled the plug. So how does someone pull the plug on a race that has been a goal for 365 days, and over 20 hours of driving, and countless hours of preparation? As much as I love cross, I love my wife more. Let me explain. First and foremost my goal was the 40+ B race. Wednesday. Secondary, goal was to fight

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I had a pretty good day. I'll admit I had intentions of a single digit finish or a box, but alas it was not to be. Had a weird start as for the first time this year, I totally missed my pedal off the line. I finally got it and panicked a bit as I took off... I made it to the front group and settled in. 2 laps in I was running 6th place, it was hurting, but hurting good.  I kept driving it. The

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"it's not the 45 minutes, it's what you do with the 45 minutes.." work hard, play hard, never leave it unsaid... respect fatmarc

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An early evening with some good friends, food, and beer: Followed by a great ride at Elk Neck New Year's Day. It was super fun... Monkey did a rad job maestroing the ride: Laundry day at the Vanderbacon house:Blown away by how much Tommy looks like Tom: Thanks to everyone for coming out. Hope 2012 is a great one for everyone! respect. Fatmarc

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A view of the center of the universe: stairs to run: sand pits to play in: that was fun... respect fatmarc

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I love blogs. Outstanding crew for the Elk Neck Ride today... I love to read the stories of other cyclists, struggles and racing and rocking out. I love reading about cyclocross racers, and how they make their way through their seasons. Heather climbs to the look out... Monkey Climbs to the look out... Blake climbs up to the look out... Travis looks out the look out... I generally

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enjoy: respect fatmarc

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My buddy Oliver is working to get a Montessori Charter School Set up here in Delaware. There website is here. Please check it out, and if you live in or around Delaware  and think this would be a good idea, think your kids or other Delaware children could benefit  send a note here saying so. Maybe a line or two saying you think this is a good idea... Very few times in as long as I written this

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Promoter Legs. If you have ever promoted a race and tried to race your own event, you know what I'm talking about. Cross races don't happen by magic. They are put on by people who love the sport and who want to give back... People that love cross, often love racing cross. This is when things get crazy. When you promote, and then you want to race your own race! I have to admit my best MAC race,

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Loosely translated: Freeze Your Ass Off Cross. Cyclocross at the Fairhill, MD Fairgrounds.  Saturday, Dec 10. About and hour from Philly, and about an hour from Baltimore. Brought to you by the people who bring you Charm City Cross and Granogue Cross. Perhaps you ask yourself  self, "why the hell would the folks who put on two of the biggest cross weekends in the Mid Atlantic promote

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One of the things that I love about cross is the intensity of the season. Racing pretty much every weekend from Early September through December. Very rarely is a cross season defined by one race, one event, but much more so when looking back over the entirety of all the races in a season. A bad race, is quickly erased the next day or next week with a "redemption" ride. Series points reflect a

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Ask Richard Fries: thanks to Henry J for the rad clip respect fatmarc (happy thanksgiving)

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Somewhere along the line Diane and I made the decision to drive up and back to Long Island from Fairhill Maryland for the SUPER Cup of Cyclocross weekend. Bad Kat shows how to make money in crosses races... We’ll file this one under the “happy wife, happy life” category. With that set up, L-Web piled into the Honda fit with Monk and I as we headed off to long island for Saturday’s racing.

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Star Wars is totally better than Star Trek... I mean the new Star Trek Movie was okay... See all the CollegeHumor Original Videos here. Just sayin... geeky? yes. I'm crosser what did you expect. thanks for reading. respect fm

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Masters Racers working the Pit after our races.. The last month or so of my life has been pretty much the weirdest ever. One of the odder things to come out of that is the fact that now I have a beard. In the past I have set out to grow a beard and done well, but for whatever reason, this one is my best effort, and it was never intended. My theory is that when it got to the stage were

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pretty nice shots, makes me look like I know what I'm doing or something. that is all. respect fatmarc

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Blake ripping though the barriers   Blake and Monkey warm up Fatme Monkey Monkey Odin is pretty cute, wait until he's 170lbs Junior Identification Program Potter likes cute me looking at wheels all day... Taylor= Junior Identification Part 2 The North Hampton- Cycle Smart International, might be my favorite weekend of cross. For one, other than racing, and supporting

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Sunday evening after a weekend of wet racing Monkey and I spend an hour in the side yard doing laundry and washing bikes. with the high pressure washer. Totally normal. Solid weekend of racing. I like wet, muddy races. Usually it allows me a chance to punch a little bit above my weight class. Not so much this weekend: sometimes I have to cry myself to sleep at night. Beacon: Had a really

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My sister in law got me a fish tank for my birthday. It’s pretty cool. Much more going on in the eco environment than I expected. I have to admit I thought that maybe two gold fish in a bowl would be cool. This totally exceeded my expectations. Originally I was going to name the fish : Ross, Chandler, Joey, Monica, Phoebe and Rachael. I figured, I’d probably kill my first batch of fish, and I

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The cross season is short, but packed. In just under 10 weeks or so, Monkey and I will find ourselves racing 20 or so times. There are weekends when we do races that are fun, and  are a part of our season goals. There are weekends that we do races, because they are a pilgrimage and doing them makes us better at this game we play.. There are weekends we race because it's a work out, and no

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Name on UCI Race Results. Mike Garigan- He's From CANADA! Fred Brown's Moustache is outstanding Tom McKay Glove Model Monkey Rocking Out Been a weird couple of weeks. Perhaps the weirdest of my life. Haven't slept well. Been busy as shit at work. Good Stuff, but not the best time to feel like your brain is functioning on 80% capacity. Fortunately, I have some good people around me.

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Thanks to everyone that came out to race. Thanks to everyone that worked so hard to pull off the event. Thanks for everyone truly being a community this weekend. that is all. respect fm

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With Granogue looming, I knew that this weekend would be a one race weekend. A number of us decided that we'd meet out at the Estate Sunday morning to walk through some of the venue set up, and polish the course a bit, if we were gonna get a race in this weekend, it as going to be Saturday. Tip of the hat to the Sportif Group who put together a very hard, very fun course on the grounds of the

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One. Last weekend at Gloucester I was doing some pre-riding with Potter. As we raced across the beach we were pretty much even. As we hit the brick stairs, he charged in front of me.Potter ran to the top of the stairs, turned around and looked at me as I was trotting up, and he started barking at me to hurry up. Seriously, it’s man’s best friend totally heckling the shit of me. More so the folks

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I can't say that Gloucester is my favorite race. I can say, that I love everything about it. I can say that if you love cross and live on the east coast, you owe it to yourself to make this pilgrimage at least once. The venue is amazing, the level of competition is unparallelled, and for me it just feels like you are walking on hallowed ground the entire weekend. It was so much fun. Seriously

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But yeah, I might be a bit biased.

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find my happy place... find my happy place... me and my brother enjoying the bike races riding with Diane is still my favorite a new bike I won't ride for 3 months Laurie gives it full gas in everything she does. respect fatmarc

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So Sunday, September 25 is our 12th wedding anniversary. As Diane and I left the Whirly Bird Cyclocross race, we remember said anniversary. Now, earlier in the week, I knew that we would forget our anniversary, such dates and things tend to get lost in the glow of cross season, but I bought a card, and placed it in the glove-box of the Honda fit. So as we remembered that Sunday was our 12th

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Charm City was an awesome weekend of racing. The combination of the team putting on a great event, great tight racing, my brother coming into town and working exhaustedly to pull it all off makes this one of my favorite weekends ever. you know what those F's stand for... While my contributions to the race to the race are small in scope, I am really proud of my team, and the event was amazing.

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Friends, I have a big announcement to make. For the 2012 season I am going to race the beginner (cat 3) class for mountain biking. I have decided that mountainbiking is not really my thing. I mean I do a couple of races each year in the spring, but it’s not really on my radar. The skills I have honed as a Mid pack Cat 2 masters cross rider or a Cat 3 road racer that only does training crits,

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A proper cyclocross course should force a rider off of their bike, or at least force them to do something other than ride around on grass 3-4 times a lap. Very frankly, any course with just a one or two sets of barriers and a lot of turns around some fields is well, a grass crit. Sandpits and challenging off camber sections are a great example of  obstacles  that forces folks to ride differently

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CLINIC from SuperLuminal Films on Vimeo. Clinic Movie. Peter kinda rocked it. I feel so Rapha right now. I mean so team JVA now aw fuck, I'm not cool enough for either... 15 minutes of fame start now... respect fatmarc

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Three Days of Cross Riding with Three different Groups! Saturday: Gunnar came down and car pooled with Monkey and to the  C3 cross training camp: a couple of uniform violations (barry and melissa were not pictured, taking extra laps) melissa through the barriers My left side is my best for pictures! Moe's Bike shop= No Uniform Violation. Andre was a rocket

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Benny looking Good in his new colors! werner and em... Kelly is King! Tammy and Monkey... Em, Werner and 1 Jazz Hand. Skyline. respect fatmarc (I care)

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Diane and I, like pretty much everyone on the east coast charged out early this morning trying to get out before the rains and total destruction that Irene is predicted to bring. Spoon I have to admit, I know the state parks in Delaware were all closed, but there were tons of people out riding and running early Saturday morning. Knife Diane and I were playing on the cross bikes. The

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  yes, I am sprinting from the hoods. Very un-pro and lame of me.   Because I talk shit I loved this quote from embrocation's Nathan Ward this morning:   " I have a bit of a mouth on me, and coupled with some years of experience racing bikes, well, I’m often that guy, bitching at the kid who isn’t pulling, encouraging the guy who’s trying but struggling, shaming the guy who

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Every time I have the opportunity to race in New England I come home with a smile on my face. Big race, or small race there's something special to me about cross in New England. Monkey leads out the first lap.... Just about a year ago, I gave my kid brother one of my old cross bikes."dude, you'll love cross..."  I think he is hooked.   it's okay to wear white until Labor day

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While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.  ~Lady Bird Johnson Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.  ~Haniel Long  "Independence"... [is]

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I did the water ice cyclcross ride with Monk and 30 other people in Philly yesterday. D. Lowe hosted and there was a great crowd. And Urban Adventure connecting pieces of trail and roads... it was super fun. Except for Port Royal. That was a kick in the nuts. Really fun times.  This one is for Anne Rock, President of the James Franco Admiration Society: A Message from James Franco's Mom

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respect fatmarc

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today's ride caused a fail in that category. always good to see old friends. respect fm

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 many riders from the gentlen's race getting instructions. Feed Zone   Velo Amis respect. fatmarc 

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Gentlemen's Ride Champions: OLD DUDES RULE- Kurtee, Fuzzy, LEO and CZ. Diane and I hosted a small ride with 50 or so of our closest friends last weekend. It was a bit of a scavenger hunt. I gotta say, these guys probably have hundreds of thousands of miles in their legs, and more trail knowledge, and tactical savvy than the rest of the riders combined. How many people have they helped become

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MABRAcross Public Service Announcement from In The Crosshairs on Vimeo. sure maybe you haven't been riding as much as last year. Maybe the age group changed. You got the points, you did the races. take the step. upgrade! Upgrade requirements here. respect fatmarc

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 Orangina and  Northbrook Fresh Dounuts, doesn't get any better...  okay, maybe it does... respect fatmarc

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"Whose motorcycle is this?" "It's a chopper, baby." Whose chopper is this? "It's Zed's." Who's Zed? "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead" 

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This is my lime tree: these are two perfect limes that it produced: This is the high life: put them together and hopefully it helps to ease the pain of a really bad race. and while it may appear that Monkey and I coordinated our green shirts, we didn't. the same could be said for our poor rides. We could Monday morning quarterback this thing to death, but reality is that we just didn't have it

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Here's a flyer for this year's Cross Clinic put on by Dan Tille and Chris Mayhew featuring J-Pow !   I'm pretty excited to have been asked backed to work the camp. It's a of work, but really fun too frankly. Only 39 spots left open! register here. respectfatmarc

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You know, I'm starting to get a little self conscious. I mean, I get that I'm fatmarc, and I am what I am. When I joined C3, I clearly remember the director committing to me, "I'll never put you in a white kit." because frankly, I look like bibs the Michelin man in a white kit. Last cross season, our Halloween kit was the storm troopers. Yes, it was a white kit, no it wasn't flattering, but damn

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I have been kinda fixated on the Supreme Bowl in LA. The design of the building and ramp just intrigues me. Not that I know anything about that stuff other than it's just rad and I kinda dig it. Yeah that's the counter and the shop below the bowl, and folks go upstairs to skate. Pretty cool huh.. I got super excited to find some rad footage of Hosoi skating the supreme bowl, but

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Or at least my number plate: Seriously,  Potter went into my zipped up cycling bag and pulled out my MASS number plate. I clearly can see where he was trying to make my number more aero. Clearly. I suspect that dog either hates me, or makes it his personal mission to destroy my stuff. Luckily, I only have 1 or 2 more mtb races this year... Seriously, he hasn't destroyed anything of

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Diane and I are driving home the other night. We are quiet in the car, and both pretty tired after a busy weekend. “I hope you have a better cross season this year.” She says out of the blue.“What do you mean?” I ask a little puzzled. Diane continues, “you worked really hard last year, and I know you never rode at the level you wanted to. You never seemed to catch a break, it just never

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I didn't race Neshaminy this weekend. I had planned to. The Clog Factory was sponsoring a Relay for Life team to benefit the American Cancer Association. The concept is similar to 24hr bike racing, except the goal obviously is to have someone walking/running on the track for 24hrs. I figured no one would want to go in the dead black middle of the night, so I signed up for the hours 2am-4am.

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Yes, dear readers this thing is very much still on. Tonight at the bar with good friends Breyla-la, Buddy the Keg Breaker, Rachel and my beloved  Monkey, I wrapped up what might have been on of my best days on the planet earth. Clearly the top 5. And that was before Breyla-la came up with this Mac and Cheese / Brewers plate that we shared full of bratwurst and sauerkraut. best ever.

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I was in NYC for a couple of days for business this week. I stayed in a nice hotel, totally hipster-ed out. This was my room: I kinda liked the room, and frankly for a place I'm going to sleep, watch sportscenter and charge my cell phone, it was perfect. At about 1:00am Monday night, I was sound asleep in my bed, when the door flew open and a woman  dressed an black busted in. The rooms,

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Iron Hill Enduro Race:   Pretty spectacular day. Weather was awesome, course was dry as I have ever seen it, and the racing was great. Riding through the Tent city at the Finish of Iron hill is a pretty spectacular and unique feeling. The crowd gets so loud, I can get goose bumps thinking about people screaming as we rode through there. Totally awesome. Potter learned to open the cooler and

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1991 my second year racing at ironhill. beginner class. I couldn't find the pictures from 1989 my first race at Ironhill. First Sport Race. In the rain of course. Yup that is a Girvn fork.  1998 Sport Race, Coming out of the World Famous Mega Dip! excited for the weekend, even if the legs aren't quite where I want them to be. Ironhill holds a special place in my heart, and it's

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Congratulations to Dennis Smith for using every square inch of trail at Iron Hill in his design of an amazing course. Dennis is one of two men, Thayer Seese being the other, who know the trails at Iron Hill better than anyone.  When that knowledge comes together, it makes both of them very tough to beat. Ironhill holds a pretty special place in my heart as far as bike racing goes. I am excited to

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The Rapha Gentlemen's race is an invitational, unsanctioned, unmarshalled race over 133 miles, and according to my GPS 12k feet of climbing. The course was made up of lots of road, and what had to be an equal amount of gravel  and dirt road climbs.  Teams of 6 riders take off at 6 minute intervals and attack the course.  The teams must start and finish together with all 6 riders. 25 teams took

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I couple of years ago, I saw this video of the Rapha Gentlemen's race out in Oregon. When I saw the video, I thought it must be the coolest idea, race ever. Six friends/teammates take off together, and have to finish together over what could best be described as an epic route. Epic climbing, Epic Views, Epic experience. Last year I saw this video Rapha Gentlemen's Race - New Paltz, NY from

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Sunday, I took my fixed gear bicycle out for the first time in 2 years. Diane, sanded and painted some deck furnature. Pretty peaceful day. Saturday, well saturday was a 20 hour day. Kid Chris, Monkey and I were a 3 person co-ed team in the 9hr Cranky Monkey race at Rocky Gap State Park in Flinstone, Maryland. Our team was named C3- Honey Badger Don't Care. The venue was 3.5 hours away, so we

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I Believe in Wormholes Yesterday, I did a George Costanza. I went on the Delaware Legislators Bike to Work ride down to Dover. When the email first came out announcing the 60-mile event, I thought about doing it for sure. Then my lardness snuck in shims of excuses in between my everyday ongoings suggesting, "It's a weekday, you won't know anyone, it could rain, you've never biked that distance

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I have a race routine. It's not religious, but pretty general. It doesn't ball me up if I get out of routine but it does help to alleviate some stress on race day. Adding a puppy named Potter might have been a monkey wrench in my routine. Saturday morning was the normal, up at 5:00am with the dogs: a quick out for Potter, then feeding, and then a longer out for both Layla and Potter. After this,

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Wonder if this is a uniform violation? Guess we'll see if the director fines me at that end of the month. respect. fatmarc vanderbacon

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you know I've watched this clip maybe 20 times. It just doesn't get old. The story is that Guy had just gotten himself cleaned up, and wasn't even supposed to be in the video. The first section in the warehouse is the first time the guy skated in like 3 or 4 months. Then they were like, dude, you're too rad to not be in the video. Not sure if that's true or not. But the Dude is totally sick.

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Race Promotion Make Potter Tired. 1. Thanks to everyone that came out for our race weekend, runners, time trialist, and MASS racers. The folks that came out to granogue were awesome this year. There are lots of other races that have landed on our date. You could have been anywhere in the world, but you choose to be with us. We appreciate that choice and hope to make your experience the best we

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On the Amnesty ride Sunday, which was the most Amnesty ride ever, I had to stop to pee. I have it on good reports that someone chirped up, "Faticus stopped to pee, can we slow up?"  which was answered with, "fuck 'em he can catch back on."  Everyone loves Fatmarc. Argh. Thanks to Garvey who drug my tired fatass back to the group. It would have been a black mark on my season for sure to be

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he learned his eating habits from me. respect. fatmarc

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Granogue is next week. The course is riding in very nicely. Go here and register. You know you're coming. You know you're gonna have fun. register now: The Big HERA Raffle is going on too. Go here and buy a ticket. Help a good cause. Feel good, and maybe win some badass stuff. get down with your bad-ass self. respect. faticus

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Dear Readers, I had a few great days of riding. Thursday the blue cup with Ted Logic, Les international man of mystery, and Pricey. I went home and drank a beer that I opened with an opener that Pricey won at Fairhill, and I drank it out of a waterbottle that he won too.  Thanks Pricey. Victory is so Sweet. Saturday, I knew it was going to rain so I had to get out early. I called Buddy and

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This is a post where I say I did my first mountain bike race in fall of 1989 and sound really old. As I was learning the sport and moving up in classes, I began to learn about the flow of the season and the spring classics.  I remember in the Mid Atlantic there were 3 Mountainbike  races that everyone got up for each year. The Mid Atlantic's Own Spring Classics of Mountainbiking: 1. Wye Mills.

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Saturday morning. Monkey and I are fully kitted up and standing in our driveway.  We are getting ready to head out and do some openers. I'm feeling a little tight so I kick my leg into the air. I'm not very flexible and the kick doesn't go very high. Monkey taunts me, " dude, I hope you don't have to karate kick anyone soon, you can't even get it as high as my head...."  I take that as a

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From time to time I’ll swing by my local Duncan Donuts on the way into the clog factory. While I am not a fan of their donuts, I do find their coffee to be enjoyable.  monkey see, monkey do. The guys in the drive through, I am certain, have a game going. The young man that takes your order, sees how many times he can say “my friend” while the young man who takes my money and gives me my

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Mass Relay, 3:59:25 into the 4 hour event. No riders are permitted to start a lap after 4:00:00. Although our previous teammates in rotation busted their asses to make sure we both had one last lap, we were in fact racing for nothing except pride and the fight.  Perfect. Chris and I took off at the same time, and he immediately opened a gap on me on the starting climb. Chris is faster than I

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In general, I know I am incredibly lucky to have a wife who enjoys the same passion for cycling and bike racing that I do. I love that when we are doing intervals we can chase each other around. I love going to the local parks and bombing around the single track with her. I’ll be honest, one of my most difficult seasons occurred when Diane was injured. My training wasn’t as pure, and frankly

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So went into Starbucks the other day. The barista there is nice. She’s young and urban and hip. As urban and hip as you can get in West Grove, Pa, but still very cute, and nice, and hell she makes a Good dessert coffee. She’s making conversation with the older creepy guy, wearing a spiderman, ben grim, wolverine T-shirt. (that’s me) “ I really like your T-shirt!” she says. Before I can stop it,

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Sure sign of a good weekend, a sink full of dirty bottles: I found it this weekend. Maybe for just a few miles, but it was there. I've been looking for it for a long time. Mother Nature has rallied against me. I've been patient and resilient in my search, and this weekend, it was their. FLOW.  It was wonderful. I was fortunate to have some amazing folks searching for FLOW with me this

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Dear Reader, I got home from work late last night. Didn't have enough time to get outside,  lights weren't charged, trails were wet- I had to ride the trainer. I'm not fan of riding the trainer. But when there seems to be a future riding outside, the trainer does seems much more bearable. Layla thought it was pretty awesome to look out the window and fart into the fan while I rode. Let's

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Dear Reader, Monkey and I both had intervals on tap for Tuesday evening. I will admit a sleepless night Monday, and Monkey constantly giving me weather updates of total suckness for the rest of the week, we decided to skip class and jump in on one of the local trail spinner rides. the ride was very fun. good people, fun loops around fairhill. The guy that leads the ride is a good guy. He does

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Dear Readers, True story. "hey, hon in our twenty years together there are a couple of words I have noticed that you have developed your own slower Delaware-weirdo-family pronunciation " I said playfully to Monkey as we drove toward Twenty 20 Cycling Company Saturday afternoon. "What do mean?" Monkey responded coyly... "Well," I explained, "say bull." Monkey obliged, "Bull" I continued, "

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Well, I had hoped that Todd would provide us with the history of the Thursday night blue cup ride. Todd commented, "write your own damn blog!" On last night's blue cup ride, he did mention he liked the picture of my nephew from his shopping trip and something about the movie mannequin being his favorite movie ever. I thought that was a little weird, but he proceeded to throw the smackdown

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By Mr. Forrest The Longest continuously held Tuesday Night Ride in the World, maybe the USA, ok maybe the East Coast, probably just around here. The ride that started back when there were pay phones, the ride before Marc got Fat, before Buddy broke any legs, back before Ted 2000, back before Fuzzy went gray, back when "Bobby" was a boy, back before BIG wheels ruined it for everyone and back

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Dear Reader, It was one of those wonderful weekends. One that makes me realize just how lucky I am. I realize it's really just great to be alive. I have an amazing life. It all started Friday when my sister in law sent us this: My nephew is a boy after my own heart. Saturday was a hard ride with some friends. I never felt good. Never found my legs, or rhythm. I did feel like I kept getting

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This is Brilliant. thanks Tom. respect fatmarc Vanderbacon

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Ghosts rattle around in my head. I HATE, I mean HATE changing my positions on my bike.  When my fat ass broke my previous seat, I knew I was in trouble. No amount of measuring, No amount of lining up seats. No, not even the use of tape, can make this process easy for me. Someone asked me why I used the same seat for over 15 years now. Simple: it's always the same. the measurements

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Dear Reader, It's March and people are getting the itch to get racing again. Bike racers can only sustain themselves on rides and trainer intervals so much. Sure enough it was 50 degrees and raining, so of course I was signed up to do a couple of training crits. Rain, and Road Racing in a meaningless crit, what could possibly go wrong? Super fun day. 35+/45+ race Maybe 25 starters. A

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Dear Reader, So I went to a local Deli for lunch today. The guy in front of me steps up the counter. The Deli-kid asks, “What can I get your sir?” The gentleman in front of me answers, “I’ll have a Charlie Sheen.” The Deli-kid, looking puzzled, “Pardon me sir?” The gentleman if front of me continues, “ A Charlie Sheen. You know, a tuna meltdown!” The Deli-kid, cracks up, “one Charlie Sheen

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Dear Readers, I heard this track on Y-rock this week, and I have to admit I have been pretty obsessed with it since. It has been running pretty steadily through my head for days now. With the exception of an hour on our ride on Saturday where, for God knows why, the Dead Milkmen's Punk Rock Girl was stuck in head. Specifically, the section that goes, "We'll dress like Minnie Pearl, just you and

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Dear Reader, Been a little quiet lately. Thank you for your patience and well wishes. Life bounds onward... I fully planned on riding the trainer last night. After a weekend of amazing rides with great people, I was pretty shagged out. I needed to spin very easily and in a controlled fashion. Much to my surprise when I got home, Monkey had made a wonderful dinner. "go ahead and ride" she said

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Tired of being sad. Time  to find some fucking joy... Last night we were chilling around the house with Layla the crazy dog. As is not unusual, Diane and I are sitting on our couch watching some bad television . Diane was throwing the ball across the room and Layla would bring it back. What the hell, if I can ride the trainer in the living room, what’s a little indoor fetch between friends?

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My friend Jim sent me this : "Got nothing to say that will make it feel better.  Losing a dog is like losing a human, if the human had never done anything in their whole life but be loyal and try to make you happy and show you how to enjoy simple things.  No words for it, other than be grateful for the good times you had." Diane and I would like to thank all our friends and family for

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