I really like NinjaDon's recipe and I decided to post one of my own recipes:
Victory Cake (Serves 1):
1 c. tranquillo
1 tbp. gusto
2 bunches of courage
1 well-seasoned teammate
Mix all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl or (Cat3) Cup (race). Beat (everyone else) into a smooth, pasty batter. Pour (some sugar on me) into a 40cm X 4m glass baking dish and and bake at 0°C.
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I raced twice yesterday. Maybe once-and-a-half is more accurate. I am dumbfounded at the result I got at Medford. Without solid form (I think) and not having been on the road bike in a week, I have no idea how that happened. All I can do is look at Todd and assume he did an absolutely incredible job of discouraging chases and covering moves. Not to mention him putting me into position with one to go. So, in all honesty, this is really Todd's result.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Caffeine + HFCS = teh Sux0rs
note: I had not yet had a chance to read wcuk before posting this . . . what appropriate timing.
The latter half of Monday was one of the most unbearable stretches of work I've yet experienced. It was only partially due to what was going on at work.
As soon as I got home, I put a potato in the oven and went to sleep. I woke up about thirty seconds before the timer went off. I ate, then went back to sleep. Around 8:30pm, I got in bed . . . it was still a bit light out. It's now 3:50am and I've been folding clothes, watching BloombergTV and reading for the past hour or so.
Why? Because caffeine + high-fructose corn syrup = grumpus-wumpus. The effects of Caffeine and other methylated xanthines are[1] well-documented[2]. The jury is still[3] out[4] on the full effects of High-Fructose Corn Syrup. You can pick and choose your studies all you want -- I know how the one-two combo of caffeine and HFCS makes me feel at the end of the day.
One little note: whenever a discussion of HFCS comes up, there is always someone saying that HFCS is just 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose . . . nearly identical to the 50/50 split that composes table sugar. This is not entirely true. Table sugar is actually sucrose, which is an entity completely separate from its constituent parts, fructose and glucose, due to dehydration synthesis/glycosidic linkage. Thus, sucrose requires hydrolysis in the body to become 50:50 fructose:glucose (I believe amylase catalyzes the reaction). Chemistry lesson over.
The latter half of Monday was one of the most unbearable stretches of work I've yet experienced. It was only partially due to what was going on at work.
As soon as I got home, I put a potato in the oven and went to sleep. I woke up about thirty seconds before the timer went off. I ate, then went back to sleep. Around 8:30pm, I got in bed . . . it was still a bit light out. It's now 3:50am and I've been folding clothes, watching BloombergTV and reading for the past hour or so.
Why? Because caffeine + high-fructose corn syrup = grumpus-wumpus. The effects of Caffeine and other methylated xanthines are[1] well-documented[2]. The jury is still[3] out[4] on the full effects of High-Fructose Corn Syrup. You can pick and choose your studies all you want -- I know how the one-two combo of caffeine and HFCS makes me feel at the end of the day.
One little note: whenever a discussion of HFCS comes up, there is always someone saying that HFCS is just 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose . . . nearly identical to the 50/50 split that composes table sugar. This is not entirely true. Table sugar is actually sucrose, which is an entity completely separate from its constituent parts, fructose and glucose, due to dehydration synthesis/glycosidic linkage. Thus, sucrose requires hydrolysis in the body to become 50:50 fructose:glucose (I believe amylase catalyzes the reaction). Chemistry lesson over.
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