Re: [CR]Can You Tell Me About CONI Cycling Book?

(Example: Racing:Wayne Stetina)

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:26:30 -0400
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "ADP" <aphillips9@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Can You Tell Me About CONI Cycling Book?


Dan Artley says in reference to the CONI cycling book:

"This was back when coca cola was an energy drink."

Pssst, Dan - it still is <g>. If you get to Cirque this year ask my significant other how he survived PBP and other brevet events. He swears by the stuff. The last time I was bonky and nauseous during some awful Southern summer ride, I let him twist my arm - and well, carbonated sugar water fixed me right up. Not too cold, sipped slowly. It was a lot easier to tolerate then a warm energy drink the color of a neon mid 80s bicycle...

I seem to remember reading about the TDF riders smoking a cigarette before a stage to "open up the lungs." Hopefully not advice found in the CONI book <g>.

Ann Phillips, Decatur GA