absolut

While muggin my life away in the library today I got thinking about Team Absolut (the team I cycle with just about every other day) and found myself supremely amused with their penchant for giving everything some sorta funny nickname. Just about everybody has some sorta moniker thats stuck so well some ppl don't even know their real names.

First there are the normal nicknames for obvious reasons, like OldMan (who really isn't that old and is fitter than most young men actually), Beef and Doc. Then the reasons start getting just a lttle odd. There's Diesel, who's supposedly called that because he can maintain a high speed but can't accelerate fast; there's DAISY, because some US bike company screwed up and sent him a baby blue bike with a huge flowerery motif; Sting, because he used to keep wearing yellow jerseys; Protein Shake, because Beef was already taken; and Bruce the Macho Man, because both Beef and Protein Shake were already taken.

Oh and even the rides aren't spared. So now we officially go for Thursday Torture Trainings and Saturday Morning Madness every week. TTT and SMM for short. Haha they crack me up.

Dammit I want to cycle so bad. One whole week without cycling!! Withdrawal withdrawal.....