Yankee Springs is only 3 days away. Some of my entries end with: “I have a good feeling about this season.” I didn’t really have a good feeling but I try to keep the sunny disposition of a high school cheerleader. I am pretty much the same racer I was last year, just a few pounds lighter. I need a quick fix. My bike weighs just under 21 lbs so I’m not going to be able to drop any weight there. Maybe I need those silly expensive ceramic bearing rear derailleur pulleys…those might launch me up the hills like I was being shot out of a cannon. Sure. I could shave my legs…no…I’m not that secure. A tattoo…that is what I need; in fact, now that I think about it, I can trace all my failures as a bicycle racer down to the fact that I don’t have a single tattoo. I made a sketch. It’s not great but I am an engineer, not an artist. Yeah, I can’t pull that off. ‘Think I will go back to the ceramic bearing rear derailleur pulley idea.Thursday, April 16, 2009
'Think I Need a Tattoo
Yankee Springs is only 3 days away. Some of my entries end with: “I have a good feeling about this season.” I didn’t really have a good feeling but I try to keep the sunny disposition of a high school cheerleader. I am pretty much the same racer I was last year, just a few pounds lighter. I need a quick fix. My bike weighs just under 21 lbs so I’m not going to be able to drop any weight there. Maybe I need those silly expensive ceramic bearing rear derailleur pulleys…those might launch me up the hills like I was being shot out of a cannon. Sure. I could shave my legs…no…I’m not that secure. A tattoo…that is what I need; in fact, now that I think about it, I can trace all my failures as a bicycle racer down to the fact that I don’t have a single tattoo. I made a sketch. It’s not great but I am an engineer, not an artist. Yeah, I can’t pull that off. ‘Think I will go back to the ceramic bearing rear derailleur pulley idea.
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I actually really like that design, but I'm not sure how fast it will make you.
ReplyDeleteZen - don't tattoo that crap on your skin! - You're an engineer! it's angular, and won't fit on human curves. - get an artist to - re-interpret your sketch, have you not seen Miami Ink? we even get that over here in the UK. PS I'm professional creative and have an eye for these things - trust me!
ReplyDeleteI was kidding about the tattoo, god didn't intend 43 year old engineers to have tattoos, but notice how the North American Mountain Goat and Mountain form the symbol for infinity? Pretty clever for a left-brained engineer like me.
ReplyDeletePhew! - When I look at that drawing I see a small figure squinting - Oh and he has a goat growing out of the right hand side of his head!
ReplyDeleteLOL...Which gives me an even better idea...I should get tattooed an ink blot, like the kind physiologist use, just to keep people guessing. And I might just learn a little something about them in the process too.
ReplyDeleteHaha, yes, I remembered this when I wrote my post, as well. I'm not gonna lie, you may have been joking about yours, but it planted a serious idea in my head. It just took a 21-year-old Death March partner with a pretty elaborate art collection and an impending divorce to push me over the edge, but I'm happy with my decision. So far, I think it has made me a little faster. :)
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