The Blast - the countdown....

Is anyone else getting a bit excited? I couldn't get to sleep last night, started thinking about line choice, some of the features, the mass start at the top, staying out of trouble through the first forest, the fatigue and joy of reaching the bottom, the fear of a mechanical, the eats at the finish line, I was in a cold sweat I was...oh baby i can't wait....

Were you alone in bed while you were having these impure thoughts ?

Blast

No, he had a copy of the latest Giant catalog but he was only reading the articles....

nah - he's a designer - they don't like text, or reading, he was just oggling the pictures,
big oggly eyes on him this morning

hmm...ok, I went looking for images of "huge eyes" to convey Don's ogglyness- didn't find anything funny, though the search did find:
"outrageous body, huge eyes in a perfect and slightly exotic (Bolivian father) face"
and I thought that the Blast being a demonstration of primal instincts and neandarthal passing techniques, on a very sexy course, well.....I wouldn't call it totally inappropriate...

Nice one Fergal, that's very appropriate, no doubt Sylvia would have dressed like that if she was partaking. I was at it again last night, trying to calculate how many thousands of gallons of water run off Ballinasponge with each dry day, and what implication this has on my tyre choice.

woah the pony there Don, you're gonna burn your freakin' neurons out with all that complex calculation of the moisture-wicking properties of Blastinastoe sub-soils.
Just think of little ducks and old women at bingo, that works for me when I get a bit too excited....

Fergal have you not told the masses that due to the bad weather and schlooomp we have decided to run this years Blast in reverse..so from car park up to top of Djouce is the new route. Its gona be deadly

thats a brilliant idea Skip..

great Idea Skip...
yeah baby... Big ring all the way... We can compare heartrates at the top....
Is there a prize for "no dabs"?
My little sprockids are as excited as Don...
Lewis said "This is going to be DEADLY.... what is it, dad?"

Brilliant! Sums it up nicely.

can you blame the young lad?
I have a poster in the back of my car and I looked at it today and nowhere does it mention it being an MTB race - people would forgiven for mistaking it for a wrestling event...

It doesn't need to mention MTB. Its the BLAST. It is a living entity....
when people say OLYMPICS, we don't need any more info.

fine - but you go and tell that to the the 19-stone hulk men presently body-slamming each other onto the bonnet of my poor Toledo, jaysus one of them has the boot lid ripped-off and is beating the tripe out of another lad with it....oh there goes a head through the driver-side window....I better call security...