Discussion: Team Trials Classic Race

In keeping With Peter Gagarin's observation at the recent Team Meeting that one of the things we *can* do as a team is communicate, I offer the following:

The interested can find my comments and routes from the Classic Team Trials race at: swampfox training page

Mikell, thanks for posting this. It's a shame you don't post your training to Attackpoint, cause your numbers are quite impressive. 675 hours is very good volume and explains quite nicely how you've managed to run so well in the Long trials race this year and last.

Brian, I think it's a shame you're moving back to Canada. Nothing against Canada, and I'm sure you're doing it for the right reasons, and of course it's not like you're moving to Katmandu. But isn't North Bay pretty close to Katmandu? At any rate, I hope it doesn't mean we won't see you at US races anymore.

Anyway, I've thought about posting at AttackPoint before, but really it's just easier for me to keep on doing things the way I've been doing. The folks who are interested can look at my little web page, and I think most of the least boring aspects of my training show up there, and the rest can be inferred. And it's not as if I have any secrets--anyone who wants to know more can ask and I'll be happy to try to answer.

Incidentally, I *do* think AttackPoint is a great tool in general, and if I was just starting a log, that's definitely the way I would go. What Kenny has done here really impresses me, and I made a point to say so to him at the Pig.

But for me, there is some advantage to have more control over what I post up, especially since I like to write some fairly ludicrous stuff sometimes, and it's nice to be able to occasionally erase it all and pretend it never happened! ; ) Probably stuff on AttackPoint lives on forever, and then I could never live down the infamy.

For instance, at the beginning of the year when I was contemplating goals for the year, I knew I wanted a few serious goals and a few intermediate goals. But I also thought it would be fun to have a few completely off-the-wall, very non-serious goals too. And one of the goals in that latter category I considered was to date all the single women on this year's WOC team. Obviously risky, since I had no way to know who would be on the team. And, whew, boy am I glad I didn't add that goal!!! I mean, just look at how it would have gone down, now that we know who the team is. First, there's Pavlina: no problems there obviously, since she's married and therefore off the table. Then there are Sam and Erin: attractive, nubile (I must admit I don't even know what that word means, but one of my profs at West Point advised the class to mix that word as often as possible in all our compositions, that it was just a great all around word, so I'm using it here), and even better, they're veteran Billygoaters--about the highest status one can aspire to. True, they're young, but I am firmly against age discrimination and life isn't worth living if you don't practice your own principles of belief. Anyway, so no problems with them. But then there's Sandra, and I hadn't considered that she might be able to wriggle her way onto the team by petition. It's a well known fact that when Sandra isn't kissing Marc, she is kissing cows. You have to draw the line somewhere, and where I draw the line is at cow kissers. You may remember that each night at dinner during WOC I would have to tell Sandra firmly that "it just wasn't going to happen, that I was never going to kiss her." She would then pretend that that was the last thing on her mind, and then we would all drink Eye Blink. Every night! But how could I? If word ever got out to Wyoming that I had kissed a cow kisser, I would have to leave the state ASAP. Plus, as nice a guy as Marc is, I don't think he would have been too pleased either.

So you see, if I want to put stuff like that on my own page, I can, and just delete it later if I want to, and no problems. But if it wound up on AttackPoint, then who knows. It could be Big Kahuna trouble! Majorly Big Kanuna trouble!!! And lord knows I need Big Kahuna trouble like I need attack badgers fastened to my ankles. And that's just the way it is.

PS--Just so there's no misunderstanding, I bet I've known Sandra longer than any of you who might be reading this, and I know she can take a joke or two. I hope she has some great races in Japan, and with all her training and increasing experience in steep, Swiss terrain, I think she can!

What about Moose siting goals? I want to know your secrets...though I am getting closer, I believe. I have been given some tips for some particular areas to scout! Congrats BTW on your accomplished goals so far and thanks for your postings.

Any professor will tell you that in this day and age we rarely, if ever, use words like "nubile" and if we do, it is with extreme caution and trepidation. It *might* be OK to say, "So-and-so's use of the Fourier transform to solve that PDE demonstrated that he/she is very nubile in the Banach space." But I never would... very risky.

It took a while to get over the rejection, but luckily in the spring in Switzerland, the cows finally come back out on the fleids. But its only a matter of time until they go up to the alps... I'll have to more hill trianing....

It could be more acceptable to say globally coupled operators provide good measures of maximal nubile entropy, especially should one of them be in a splay phase. Applying the term directly could lead to problems down the line. Although Sandra would probably put up with it.

I've so thoroughly integrated moose sighting into my training that I no longer even need to think about it. It's like a good guitarist: hand him a guitar and his fingers will fret a dominant7#9 chord without even thinking about it.

No mooses seen yet this year, but it's only a matter of time!

Note that Swampfox often tries to touch cows out on the prairie, and he has never been able to succeed.

You think Trixli and 'Stoph don't read this stuff, huh Mikell?

Good thing none of it will preserved on Attackpoint.

When I was in college, professors didn't advise us to use the word "nubile". But there was a popular song entitled "Bring On The Nubiles" (by The Stranglers, I believe).

Oh, right, Classic race. Yeah, umm... I wasn't there...

Unlike Swampfox, I just could not afford to pass up a cow kissing woman.