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- From: bhilden@bigriver.Eng.Sun.COM (Bruce Hildenbrand)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.racing
- Subject: Re: Cold Weather hydration (was: Re: Frozen water bottles)
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 18:48:45 GMT
- Organization: Sun
- Lines: 49
- Message-ID: <ljc4cdINNo1o@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <1992Dec9.022616.12265@netcom.com> <3450006@hplred.HPL.HP.COM>
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- In article <3450006@hplred.HPL.HP.COM> jbrandt@hplred.HPL.HP.COM (Jobst Brandt) writes:
- >What's the actual fact in contrast to facts. Just because I
- >suggested that you need less water in the winter and especially when
- >the temperature is below freezing, you don't need to interpret that
- >as never drinking water. I drink plenty of water but not when I
- >don't need it.
-
- Your memory must be fading Jobst. It wasn't necessarily what you said,
- but how you said it. You claimed that you didn't need any water at all
- and that this water bottle in winter fad was just so that people could
- look cool drinking at stop lights. What a weenie thing to say.
-
- >It seems to me, however, that three riders going out on a 75 mile
- >ride with 5000 feet of climbing drinking less than a half bottle of
- >water represents valid data. I find the comparison of this
- >experience with riders whose anodized rims have not failed amusing.
- >This is not a statistical matter such that by coincidence our bodies
- >did not require any water this time while on another colder day
- >(when water bottles freeze) we will become dehydrated.
-
- Heh, heh, heh. Keep digging, Jobst, let me know if you find any
- dinosaur bones.
-
- >I see these ad hominem arguments as a retort from those who feel my
- >comments about watering exercises in busy intersections struck too
- >close to home. Those who jump up and, in so many words, say "that's
- >me!" and proceed to take offense, are only give credence to my
- >characterization.
-
- See my above remarks! Heh, heh, heh! Oh my God, I've been found
- out. How am I gonna live with myself? I guess I am going to live
- the rest of my life in shame because, once, on December 14th, 1987,
- I actually took a drink at a stop light and the reasons for doing
- so were unclear. I am not sure I needed the water for physiological
- reasons, I just reached down there and grabbed my bottle and the
- next thing I know, I was squeezin' it for all it's worth, feeling
- that cool stream of aqueous liquid carressing and cooling my throat
- as it plunged forcefully down my waiting orifice........
-
- Oh, now I'vew done it! I've expossed my water bottle fetish to
- the whole world. There is only one thing I can do to save myself:
-
- Become self-righteous and strike out at everything I see
- that I don't like!
-
- Bruce
-
- ps - now I have these three friends, and they swear I am faster than
- Greg LeMond.......
-