This deserves a poll:
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It absolutely counts! I can only control me, why should my achievement be diminished because no one else cared enough to show up? LOL
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Yup, you also came in last place, but you’re not a loser!
If everyone else is on the couch you’re the winner, and they’re the losers.
My last race in 2019, I finished 174th. So naturally, “a top 174th finish”
Often times when my wife and I are on a road trip I’ll point out things like “I’d like to ride up that hill” or “This pavement is really smooth, bet it would be great to ride on” or “It would be interesting to know that road goes”
Lol, I do this on trips all the time, “I’d love to do this climb”, or “this road looks like fun”. My friends just look at me dumbfounded, and comment on how insane I am.
What about the “I have ridden along here” or “it’s a lot steeper on a bike”
Lew Hollander “made a living” out of being the only one in his age group. All he had to do was finish an Ironman and he would go to Kona in the over 75 age group. I saw him once in IMFL. He was running with 4 hot girls running next to him escorting him through the run. That’s when I thought, “I am definitely not doing this correctly.”
The standard joke when I truhiked (GA->ME 2001) was that at Springer Mt., if you dropped an M&M you would let it go. By Damascus you would pick it up, dust if off, and eat it. By the Delaware Water Gap you would pick it up and eat it without dusting it off. By the Whites you would you pick it up and eat it without dusting it off, then go digging for any you might have missed.
(Wasn’t far from the truth. I lost 40+ lbs while thruhiking. Those were the days!)
When did @Nate_Pearson turn pro? (One for the long time listeners)
That’s about right
That was me on Saturday, I hit the breaks too hard with disc breaks & a new TT position. It resulted in a perfectly executed summersalt at a set of traffic lights. Never bounced back up so quickly in my life, so embarrassing.
That looks more like “why children need adult supervision”. Where’s the bike?