From mikez@ee.washington.edu Tue Apr 13 11:18:34 1999 Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id LAA46828 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:18:32 -0700 Received: from dante14.u.washington.edu (mikez@dante14.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.40]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id LAA13552; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:18:29 -0700 Received: from localhost (mikez@localhost) by dante14.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id LAA21124; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:18:29 -0700 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:18:27 -0700 (PDT) From: "M. Ziomkowski" Sender: mikez@dante14.u.washington.edu To: Dan Hayes cc: uwracing@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'd be interested in going to the tri-cities for a X-country race. I have never raced before and probably will finish near last place, but I'd like to try. I don't have a car though and will need a ride. -Mike ************************************************************************ 'It's great being a small fish in a big pond, if you are a piranha.' On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Dan Hayes wrote: > Scott and all, > As I said before the race to a friend when he said he would probably > get his ass kicked, "Yeah, me too, but what a beautiful day to get your > ass kicked!" For those of you who weren't there, or didn't look out the > window, Sunday was the best day of 1999 so far. I raced B's at 10 am > and the air was crisp and cool and skies were clear. The race was a 3 > mile circuit on backroads with one long hilly section. Our race was > combined with 4/5s, and we did 8 laps. Managed to hang with the pack of > about 50 for 4 laps. I always lost ground on the hilly section, but > managed to catch up on top by not letting up over the crest, and often > grabbing onto a fellow straggler's wheel. But the 5th time around > killed me. I rode with a guy from Walla Walla for a lap, toasted him on > the 6th hill when a UOregon guy pulled me along. Then he toasted me on the > hill next time. Did the last lap by myself pushing as hard as I could > without going paralytic from the waist down, and with 200 m to go up a > windy short hill, the damn Walla Walla guy and 2 others who were working > together passed me for a sprint finish. I felt like a wingless duck on > a pond in hunting season. But it was a blast. I am SO pumped for > tri-cities this weekend: time trial both indiv. and team Sat and RR > Sunday..Hope we have some good numbers. How did the A's race go?? > > Dan > > Apologies to those who don't care to hear race reports....never mind, > that's what the list is for right?? > > On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, S. > Trimble wrote: > > > > > Dan, > > > > How'd the race on Vashon go? > > > > scott > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Dan Hayes > UW School of Oceanography > Applied Physics Lab/Polar Science Center > 1013 NE 40th St > Seattle, WA 98105 > 206 543-6615 > dhayes@apl.washington.edu > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > .