RAMROD

[Dwayner]

Any of you studs/studdettes doing RAMROD on Thursday? (it ain't what you think, pope, it's a grueling bicycle challenge . Ride Around Mt. Rainier in One Day). Look out for the Croquet Guy! I'll be running CAMROD again with the croquet mallet between Longmire and Ohanapacosh so don't run me down. If you're a climber, yell "Googookaju" - much better than "did you lose your ball?" to which I will answer, "Ask Lance Armstrong." When you pass my support guy, world-famous So. Cal. climbing dude "Denis Erectus", you may yell at him. Call him Mr. Erectus or variations thereof, or "Sport-climber". He will be seated in a lawn chair reading a book (or trying to chat up tourist-babes) in front of a car waiting for me every few miles to hit a ball through his cleverly placed wickets. If I'm successful, I get some Gatorade and a small snack. Yah, it's a weird thing to do, but it's an annual tradition.

So if you're doing RAMROD...have a great ride and no matter what you think, riding that bike is a heck of a lot harder than running with the mallet during my traveling croquet game.

See you on the road!

- Dwayner

[Dru]

LAMROD? Is that anything like Lambone?

[Lambone]

no!

[Alpine_Tom]

I'll be there. I'll be the fat guy without the breath to wheeze "googoocachoo!" at you on the climb up to Paradise.

You know, you really ought to do the entire course over several years. (Except maybe the first 50 miles or so, which is pretty boring.) The climb up to Cayuse pass is really the most pleasant part of the ride, everyone agrees.