Beer, bikes and butt-kicking

~ Patrick O'Grady
I used to be able to outrun the sonofabitch, if nothing else.

The universe seems intent on driving me from my dank lair and into the sunlight. After a light day’s work for VeloNews.com I slouched anonymously into Bristol Brewing to fetch home a jug of Red Rocket Pale Ale and bumped into Josh Osterhoudt and Bill Sommer, who wished to discuss the drinking of beer, the riding of bikes and life its ownself.

Once home, sipping a pint and cleaning up after a meal of tacos and rice, my old teammate Big Bill McBeef called to discuss the drinking of wine, the riding of bikes and life its ownself. Being fit from a winter and spring of hiking and biking, he is particularly interested in kicking my ass in a genial, two-wheeled sense, never having forgotten the hour he spent chasing me around Monument Valley Park during an epically retarded March cyclo-cross the Mad Dogs promoted back in the early Nineties.

I may have struck a verbal agreement with him to ride the road on Friday. But there are no signed, witnessed and notarized documents to that effect, and my attorney advises me that I can crouch in the basement with my hairy legs and my cats and that jug and refuse to answer e-mail, the phone or the door, should I so choose.

But I suppose I’d better check the garage to see whether I still own a road bike, just in case. A guy has to go out sometime, if only to fetch more beer.

6 thoughts on “Beer, bikes and butt-kicking”

  2. Meanwhile, I was partying at the Special Library Association reception at the Library of Congress.:)

  3. “Special” Library Association? Did you ride there on a short bus? And did a big kid steal your cell phone while aboard?

  4. Now, now…None of that. We all know that you’re both “special,” and that’s why we love you so.

  5. Careful there Mr. Patrick. While it is fun and somewhat accurate to posit that ALA librarians are basically non-threatening and fun loving, your SLA librarian is, pun intentional, a special breed. These folk are all either corporate infighters or work for non-typical operations like Halburton, Blackwater or the military. A nice group to ask the rhetorical question “Will no one rid me of this turbulent spouse?”

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