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Sea Otter (1/2): Camping with Rollingbones, Jilm and the Tequila Monster (12 posts)
|  Sea Otter (1/2): Camping with Rollingbones, Jilm and the Tequila Monster | Biking Viking
Mar 25, 2002 11:02 AM | | Rollingbones was kind enough to share his acquired camping spot with Jilm, BV and family + Tequila Monster and son. The spot offered killer views of the Fort Ord public Lands hills, the XC course and Salinas in the distance. A section of the course ran only 150 yards down the hill from our tents.
I restricted myself to two beers on Saturday night. I had this feeling that excessive alcohol consumption and 8:20am race start on Sunday morning would be incompatible. Hence, I chose a good race form over a good party you may say I don't have my priorities right. The Tequila Monster, on the other hand was not attending the Sea Otter to race, his wife was far away, and he did everything the other way around.
As the night went on, he got braver and braver and we managed to talk him out of pre-riding the XC course in the dark on a single speed. "Listen, having problems standing upright is a good indication that you should not attempt to ride singletrack".
But before we got that far, his simplistic food choice (the steak was RB's) seemed to bug him as I prepared my pre-race carb load on the adjacent stove.
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My seemingly more advanced dinner was too much for him and I worked really hard to keep him away. Just like some annoying fly he was hovering over it, waiting for a chance to dip in and have a piece. It really wasn't that advanced, just some pasta, sausage, pesto, stewed tomatoes, freshly chopped basil and freshly grated parmesan cheese but it smelled good.
I fed my family and stuffed myself as hard as I could then sat back with a beer to let the pasta carbs convert into glycogen. I gave the leftovers to the Tequila Monster and he shoveled it in like some other homeless person. However, it never got as far as storing as glycogen in his case - and the hotdogs never reached the metabolism stage either. His tent location was on a slight incline, and during the night he efficiently turned it into some local variety of hurl hill. Raceday morning I was tempted to take pictures of that, but in consideration of the Tequila Monster, his family and the younger readers of this board, I chose not to.
The following pictures shows the Tequila Monster is lecturing his dependent in how to look for bad guys who might be after him, using Jilm and RB as examples of what they might look like. For some reason he did not mention middle-aged men smelling of hard liquor.
I think those stains on his pants are from a fairly comical incident ten minutes earlier. We all watched with great anticipation how the rear legs of his chair sank into the soft grass until they reached the point where simple physics dictate that the person in the chair will tip backwards and roll out of the chair. When you are sitting on top of a hill, the consequences of that happening can be quite dramatic. Tequila Monster rolled down at good speed and almost made it down to the XC course before he stopped. Luckily, neither he nor the chair suffered any damage.
I promised Jilm I'd quote him on this Father-to-son talk, but following the same considerations as stated above, I have changed my mind on that.
The last thing he said to me before he crept into his tent and passed out was: "If you wake me up at 6am tomorrow, I'll make you a capuccino and ride with you on the warm-up". After the race on Sunday he thanked me for not taking him up on that.
BV |
| You didn't mention... | Tequila Monster
Mar 25, 2002 11:10 AM | | ...RBs excellent rendition of "Margaritaville". That was all the motivation I needed for a little binge.
Honestly, I think I would have been fine with the tequila. It was the 6+ Bigfoot Ales starting at noon that ultimately led to my demise.
Thanks for painting such a flattering picture, buddy. 8^) |
| I'm glad you were able to take that one. Pretty sure you would. | Biking Viking
Mar 25, 2002 11:17 AM | | Erik is already asking when he can hook up with Nick again. Maybe I can bring him and drop him off at your house when we go nightriding next time.
BV |
| re: Sea Otter (1/2): Camping with Rollingbones, Jilm and the Tequila Monster | Spiff
Mar 25, 2002 11:33 AM | | That sounds really fun. How was the race ?
Gui |
| The race was good. I'll tell about it tomorrow.(nm) | Biking Viking
Mar 25, 2002 11:34 AM | | |
| Thanks for sharing. I agree with the 2 beers before a race thing | Rev Bubba
Mar 25, 2002 11:36 AM | | Can't imagine trying to race with a hangover. Ugh! |
| Ha! Ha! Dinner AND a show! | jilm
Mar 25, 2002 12:41 PM | | Actually, after partying with guys like Finch Platte, Tequilla Monster was farly tame ( except when he lectured his son about Bones and myself - ha ). It was great hanging out with you all. |
| No, your honor, I have no memory of that event. nm | Fast Eddy
Mar 25, 2002 12:47 PM | | |
| I like it when my daddy goes to "therapy"! -little monster ... | elperro
Mar 25, 2002 6:26 PM | | That was some good stuff BV. Thanks for sharing the words, not for the pics though!=^)
_EL Perro |
| or maybe | LOL!
Mar 25, 2002 6:50 PM | | he didn't have time to walk to the can to relieve himself??? |
| Question.... | B Ziel
Mar 25, 2002 7:42 PM | | Why, o why, on this green earth, wouldn't you let him pre-ride the course at night on a singlespeed while drunk?
That is true Passion, and deserves to be captured for posterity.
Preferably through video or photgraphs...
BZ |
| I know, that would have made an excellent post. Next time(nm) | Biking Viking
Mar 25, 2002 8:17 PM | | |
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