- Bad Idea Racing - HAS LEFT THE BUILDING

I used to never wear socks when I rode in the summer. I just preferred to keep it “gladiator style”. After rubbing my feet totally raw at my first twelve hour race I cut the cuffs off some cycling socks and made my own low-rise socks. Eventually I found out DeFeet made a golf sock that was low cut, and I wore those for the next few years. Years later they started making the Speedee, and I was hooked. I love my Speedees, but when I have to hike-a-bike in sand or silty dirt I tend to get a bunch of crap down in my sock. The “crap” then abrades my feet for hours and causes me great discomfort. Enter the Levitator. They go up plenty high and they even managed to get rid of the annoying seam that grinds on my toes after 20+hours of riding. My only problem?? It seems that high socks are fashionable in the cycling world so I am joining the crowd. I seem to be doing that more and more often these days. Maybe the “crowd” knows something I don’t.

Yes, I bought “trouser socks”. My next purchase will be a frilly blouse.

I also snagged a small saddle bag. How small??

That small. I can barely squeeze a tube, chaintool/tire lever, 4&5mm allens, a piece of chain, and the nozzle of my CO2 dispenser in it. It is very stealthy, and I won’t have to carry ANYTHING in a jersey pocket. That means I can rock out wearing anything I want on top. Who’s bringing an AC/DC concert shirt to the race? Nobody I know.

Yes, I am sweating the details. It seems like a better option than sweating doing something like training.

24 Hours of Adrenalin keeps putting out press releases everytime a big name signs up for the race. I think they forgot about me, so I wrote my own and posted it on the Endurance forum on MTBR. If you don’t go there it went a little something like this:

24 Hours af Adrenalin keeps posting all these press releases announcing the big names coming to the Worlds this year. I get them VIA email and I scan down through the list of names.
Chris Eatough, 2005 runner up Ernesto Marenchin, Mark Hendershot (5th in 2005), Monique Sawicki (2nd in 2005), Louise Kobin (3rd in 2005), Rebecca Rusch, and now Sue Haywood.
Where’s my press release? Don’t they think anybody wants to hear about me?

Rich Dillen returns to the Worlds after a six year hiatus. He thrilled us with an 18th place finish overall in 2000, and now he is returning to dominate (or at least participate in) the single speed class in 2006. He has already taken third place overall (by default) in the National Ultra Series this year, and has been training off and on (mostly off) all year. We’re so excited to have someone who inconsistently visits the podium and thinks cutting his hair before a big race is training join us for the biggest event of the year. So come on down to Conyers and watch Rich sit in his pits trying to figure out which socks he is going to wear before the race starts.

*with a plus or minus 100% margin of error

Ten more days till “The Quickening”.

“There can only be one (gear).”