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Demonpenz · 10-20-2009, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by 88TG88

You're just mad because my bike cost more than your Ford Tempo.

that doesn't even make a difference to me. Less money I spend the mo fo the weed, why don't your girl come slow motion with me.

blaise · 10-19-2009, 12:35 PM

Someone put a 13.1 sticker on the back of the one guy's casket.

Chazno · 10-19-2009, 02:47 PM

I ran the Chicago marathon Back in '04. Someone died during that one also. Apparently if you consume nothing but water for 4 hours while running 26.2 miles you can die from a lack of sodium. I had never heard of that before then.

TEX · 10-19-2009, 02:50 PM

I try and run 3 times a week. I've been doing it for years. I never have run a marathon and have no desire to do so. But, to each his own...

Coach · 10-19-2009, 02:55 PM

Well, I can see why they're suspicious about this. I mean, it was held in Detroit, after all.

Demonpenz · 10-19-2009, 02:58 PM

the ones i see don't wear those crazy helmets just the standard it's WHERE they ride. I don't get upset too much because hey atleast they are doing something other than sitting at walmart shoplifting pinwheels, but they are always in this road that has two lanes and the are riding for pleasure people swerve around them into on coming traffic, then i get pissed. I honestly just come up beside them and honk a ****ing air horn that my dad bought for his boat. Sometimes they fall, but **** them.

JD10367 · 10-19-2009, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Demonpenz

the ones i see don't wear those crazy helmets just the standard it's WHERE they ride. I don't get upset too much because hey atleast they are doing something other than sitting at walmart shoplifting pinwheels, but they are always in this road that has two lanes and the are riding for pleasure people swerve around them into on coming traffic, then i get pissed. I honestly just come up beside them and honk a ****ing air horn that my dad bought for his boat. Sometimes they fall, but **** them.

blaise · 10-19-2009, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Demonpenz

the ones i see don't wear those crazy helmets just the standard it's WHERE they ride. I don't get upset too much because hey atleast they are doing something other than sitting at walmart shoplifting pinwheels, but they are always in this road that has two lanes and the are riding for pleasure people swerve around them into on coming traffic, then i get pissed. I honestly just come up beside them and honk a ****ing air horn that my dad bought for his boat. Sometimes they fall, but **** them.

A few weeks ago I was trying to turn left at an intersection and a group of these spandex bike riders came toward me, and so I let them go past before I turned left. The last guy was (I thought) yelling something- he was mouthing the words like he was shouting. I thought he was yelling at me, so I got mad and yelled something like, "I let you go past asshole!"
Then, after I turned left, I realized he was trying to say "Thank you" so I would have been able to read his lips.

rageeumr · 10-19-2009, 03:16 PM

I'll take my chances of dropping dead in a race versus dropping dead of a coronary living my old lifestyle.

Oh, and to support Penz, I hate drivers when I'm running, I hate runners when I'm driving, but I pretty much always hate bicyclists. I ride my bike to work on rare occasion, but I map out a route WITH BIKE LANES. Not doing so makes you a selfish a-hole IMO.

ziggysocki · 10-19-2009, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by rageeumr

I'll take my chances of dropping dead in a race versus dropping dead of a coronary living my old lifestyle.

Oh, and to support Penz, I hate drivers when I'm running, I hate runners when I'm driving, but I pretty much always hate bicyclists. I ride my bike to work on rare occasion, but I map out a route WITH BIKE LANES. Not doing so makes you a selfish a-hole IMO.

This is so true that it is scary.

Demonpenz · 10-19-2009, 03:49 PM

i walk often but and run until i am out of breathe which is like two blocks, i hate it (and you know it's going to happen. when people are coming up to a busy street and their bumper pretty much goes into traffic as they are looking the other way, instead of staying behind the white line.

Infidel Goat · 10-19-2009, 05:17 PM

I think what is suspicious is that all three men died shortly after the 11 mile marker (assuming that the half marathon finishes at the 13.1 marker of the marathon course).

I am suspicious that they will find something in their system that was given to them by a spectator.

That being said, I'd still take water or gatorade at the legitimate aid stations if I were in a race...

Valiant · 10-19-2009, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Infidel Goat

I think what is suspicious is that all three men died shortly after the 11 mile marker (assuming that the half marathon finishes at the 13.1 marker of the marathon course).

I am suspicious that they will find something in their system that was given to them by a spectator.

That being said, I'd still take water or gatorade at the legitimate aid stations if I were in a race...

BBC prank show was probably in town and had a grim reaper out there scaring people..

**Rain Man** · 10-19-2009, 08:07 PM

It's scary to even think about it, which makes me want to do it more. Hopefully I'll see you there, even if it's only as a distant speck above me.

ziggysocki · 10-19-2009, 08:41 PM

Wow. Pikes peak sounds amazingly hard. I want to try it. I can do a 1:50 half comfortably... and my best is just over 1:40. I am gonna have to look into this race.

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Demonpenz Woman should only make babies Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Apartment "G UNIT!" Casino cash: $-423864	the ones i see don't wear those crazy helmets just the standard it's WHERE they ride. I don't get upset too much because hey atleast they are doing something other than sitting at walmart shoplifting pinwheels, but they are always in this road that has two lanes and the are riding for pleasure people swerve around them into on coming traffic, then i get pissed. I honestly just come up beside them and honk a **ing air horn that my dad bought for his boat. Sometimes they fall, but ** them. __________________
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10-19-2009, 03:16 PM	#9
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10-19-2009, 03:49 PM	#11
Demonpenz Woman should only make babies Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Apartment "G UNIT!" Casino cash: $-423864	i walk often but and run until i am out of breathe which is like two blocks, i hate it (and you know it's going to happen. when people are coming up to a busy street and their bumper pretty much goes into traffic as they are looking the other way, instead of staying behind the white line. __________________
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10-19-2009, 05:17 PM	#12
Infidel Goat Beer Sherpa Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: shackled in a cellar Casino cash: $2112493	I think what is suspicious is that all three men died shortly after the 11 mile marker (assuming that the half marathon finishes at the 13.1 marker of the marathon course). I am suspicious that they will find something in their system that was given to them by a spectator. That being said, I'd still take water or gatorade at the legitimate aid stations if I were in a race...
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ziggysocki mmm sweet lemonade Join Date: Oct 2008 Casino cash: $10005000	Wow. Pikes peak sounds amazingly hard. I want to try it. I can do a 1:50 half comfortably... and my best is just over 1:40. I am gonna have to look into this race.
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