Art O’Connor

No Race

Blog Category: Blog — Blogged by: Art on June 17, 2006 at 1:25 am

Tomorrow is the Kamas to Evanston race my favorite existing race(now that Eureka has been pissed away) and I am not doing it.� Sucks because I have great form right now. It really comes down to not being able to find anyone to feed me and drive to Evanston so I can get a ride back to my car.� It is a pretty tough sale.� Get up early on a Saturday, stand on the side of the road for a few hours and then wait in scenic (not) Evanston for the race to finish.� No takers this year.� Gotta say I am losing motivation pretty quick right now.� Over 4000 miles so far since March and probably 3500 of those have been solo.� That is a lot of time to be out there in my head.� Lots of weird stuff going on in there.� Plus what the hell am I riding so much for if I am not going to race.� Hopefully I will leave for Texas soon and get a fresh perspective on things, I could really use it.

Ride Safe

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Comment by wendy chao

June 17, 2006 @ 3:57 pm

Art, I’ll be your race support any time. Just give me a couple weeks notice (and perhaps a plane ticket), your dietary preferences (regular, vegetarian, or kosher), and I’ll have your feed bag ready.

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Comment by monkey chicken

June 17, 2006 @ 5:58 pm

The only perspective I ever got in Texas was, “Of all the gin joints,why am I here?. Get me the hell out!”

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Comment by Burke

June 17, 2006 @ 7:12 pm

Dude, you down for Hank3 on Monday?
Got my #?

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Comment by Art

June 17, 2006 @ 8:07 pm

Hell yeah i am down. i will drop a dime.

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Comment by Mark s

June 17, 2006 @ 10:09 pm

Hey Don’t feel too bad ,I didn’t go cause I’m broke and the reasons you stated.
might get to race in july again.
Hows Ma doing?

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Comment by Rockstar

June 18, 2006 @ 12:04 pm

you loser! I told you days before I would be happy to go! I see what this is… you just don’t like me anymore! ““““ (shit that looks more like drool than tears)…

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Comment by todd

June 19, 2006 @ 12:39 pm

Uh, Art. They had neutral feeds.

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Comment by RB

June 19, 2006 @ 1:56 pm

…and a bus back to Kamas.

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Comment by Art

June 19, 2006 @ 2:13 pm

The bus I knew about(and did one year, not a ton of fun makes for a really long chamois day), the feed I did not. Maybe next year.

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Comment by todd

June 19, 2006 @ 4:10 pm

Yea. But you can put down 6 hours in the training log because of chamois time.

I’m envious of the mileage. I just hit 2K last week for the year.

You should make the trip up to Elkhorn this weekend.

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Comment by T$

June 20, 2006 @ 9:26 pm

A-train,

I would have given you half my Clif bar.

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Comment by TB

June 20, 2006 @ 10:43 pm

Hey Man,
You gotta send me those photog’s from Hank3….my head still hurts!

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