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  • #31
    It's being streamed online. I caught some of it before chirch
    "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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    • #32
      Anyone paying attention yet this year? I haven't been but just realized that Milan SanRemo is this Sunday.
      I told him he was a goddamn Nazi Stormtrooper.

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Dwight Schr-ute View Post
        Anyone paying attention yet this year? I haven't been but just realized that Milan SanRemo is this Sunday.
        Definitely! I watched the final stage of Paris-Nice tonight just to get ready. The classics are great. One day races. Broken up pelotons. Epic crashes. What's not to love?
        "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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        • #34
          Originally posted by Moliere View Post
          Definitely! I watched the final stage of Paris-Nice tonight just to get ready. The classics are great. One day races. Broken up pelotons. Epic crashes. What's not to love?
          Can't find it on tv. Thanks a lot Lance Armstrong!

          https://youtu.be/rfq6NF5YTAo
          I told him he was a goddamn Nazi Stormtrooper.

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          • #35
            http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/...classic_364972

            Sounds like a truly awful day to be on a bike. It's hard to ride in an echelon with heavy winds and even when I'm by myself it feels like my bike it going to blown out from underneath me. I hate riding in the wind.

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            • #36
              Originally posted by RC Vikings View Post
              http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/...classic_364972

              Sounds like a truly awful day to be on a bike. It's hard to ride in an echelon with heavy winds and even when I'm by myself it feels like my bike it going to blown out from underneath me. I hate riding in the wind.
              Belgium in the spring. Brutal. Here's Thomas just getting blown off the road into a ditch.

              I told him he was a goddamn Nazi Stormtrooper.

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              • #37
                Originally posted by Dwight Schr-ute View Post
                Belgium in the spring. Brutal. Here's Thomas just getting blown off the road into a ditch.

                Ha, it's crazy to see how much the other guys are leaning into that wind.
                "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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                • #38
                  I watched the final stage of the Criterium International. What a thrilling race.

                  Coming up the final ascent, which was a 9 mile long climb, Peraud took off only to be caught by the first group. Immediately after he got cuaght he took off again, putting a good 45 second between him and second place. Pinot was chasing him and at about 1.5 miles left Pinot took off in an attempt to reel in Peraud. Pinot needed to take second by 8 seconds on the stage if he wanted the GC win. Over that 1.5 miles Pinot chipped away, getting the lead down to around 20 seconds with only 500meters left. Then, Pinto unexplicitly almost took a wrong turn and end up losing anywhere from 5-8 seconds. It was madness as he realized at the last second he was taking the wrong road and steered back just in time to get back on the right path without having to back up. He ended up taking second place by 16 off the leader.

                  If Pinot had not almost taken the wrong road, I wonder if he would have won. He certainly lost momentum in having to come back to the course and likely lost some confidence. Peraud won the stage and hte GC. Ben King, the leader coming into the final day, got dropped early in the last climb.

                  You can see Pinot start to go towards the wrong road at 28:30 in this clip:

                  "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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                  • #39
                    Demo Derby at Flanders today. There's got to be something that can be done with so many f'ing support vehicles on course.

                    http://youtu.be/4bcBJowyQS8

                    http://youtu.be/bDGgVpxLIFU
                    I told him he was a goddamn Nazi Stormtrooper.

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                    • #40
                      Hell is here.

                      I told him he was a goddamn Nazi Stormtrooper.

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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by Dwight Schr-ute View Post
                        Hell is here.



                        Paris-Roubaix is the best of the classics. Unfortunately I'll be traveling so I'll have to watch it a day or two later.
                        "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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                        • #42
                          Big pile up in a pre Paris-Roubaix race. What a mess.

                          PLesa excuse the tpyos.

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by creekster View Post
                            Big pile up in a pre Paris-Roubaix race. What a mess.
                            Nasty. Did you happen to see the one earlier this week from Pais Vasco? Yikes. Here's the "safety measures" of marking some poles on the outside line of the road within the final kilometer:

                            Pais vasco.jpg

                            Here's the result:

                            I told him he was a goddamn Nazi Stormtrooper.

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                            • #44
                              Those are horrible.

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                              • #45
                                Finally got around to looking. Paris-Roubaix made stateside production. A day late and I'm sure many dollars short, but I"lol take it.

                                Monday, 4/13 at 4 p.m. PDT.
                                I told him he was a goddamn Nazi Stormtrooper.

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