Chains as in necklaces…
Since I was in Bend, OR trying to race the Cascade Cycling Classic in which Kristin LaSassoe won!!! I have been out of Tour de France touch, but today I was able to watch the race and see what really makes a great climber a great climber… chains. Not just any chain… it has to be a long one and have something attached to the end of it. Oh yes this is true… I discovered this while watching the tour this afternoon, not this morning cause I was still sleeping. AND actually this occurred yesterday…
But anyways, for today the rest of the importance of chains…
Why one would need a chain like this is obvious if you just sit down and think about the logic of the chain and where it came from. Well first of all chains have been around for a long time… I mean really since way back when, when they were first used
What they were exactly used for isn’t as important as what they are used for today… biking AND why they are used. There are a couple explanations why bikers of this generation have found them so useful…
1) Being the most important… the bling factor. To win a race you have to have baling and the more bling the more likely you will win. ACTUALLY, really it isn’t so much the bling as it is the way your neck sparkles in the sunlight
2) Then those chains must weigh a lot… they are so big. This is important because the climbers are so goss darn light and they may in fact get blown off their bikes without the chains. Also by weighing down their chest the climbers have any easier time keeping their chest closer to their bars, which makes it easier to hold onto the bars and stay in a more air position while climbing
3) And if you have a chain hanging down around your neck as you bounce back and forth while climbing the chain will surely hit you in the face diverting the pain away from your legs to your face allowing you or in this case the rider to go faster
SO it is time for you to begin your chain training and you will become a better climber in just a matter of a few months…
WARNING: results vary from biker to biker. Some bikers are just meant to go down hills, not up them… BUT keep trying.
For now Phil, Katharine and I are watching the Tour de France in Barto, PA and then we are going biking here and there while some of us go here and there for longer then others….
At Cascade
1)Kristen won the QOM jersey the first day
2)Jen and my Dad where kicking back (the hip way for saying waiting and waiting in the hot sun wishing we would hurry up) in the sun waiting patently for us to zoom by the feed zone
3)Phil and I after I demolished him in a whip cream fight
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Alright, that is all for now… I have to go find some nails to chew on so my iron isn’t so low cause it is hard to ride a bike when you want to sleep on your bike. I am working on it right now, but I don’t know the area very well so I keep running off the road
Until later, Later
:) Me also known as I or Chrissy
ps… hope you find a big chain that sparkles in the sun
pss… Phil might (and I say might because I am pretty sure it isn’t what really happened) have squirted a tad, only a tad more whip cream on me then me on him