[BHV] Five Lakes and a Steak

[William Lodico]

Jeremiah,

I acknowledge a surge of thoughtlessness on my part (for which I  
apologize), helped along by the momentum of tradition, and abetted by  
the apparently standard scheduling of bike races and bike shop hours  
on Saturdays and of the FLCC touring calendar on Sundays.

Can you start a ministry to Sunday bike riders, administered from the  
bike?  A small group of rarely church attending Catholics has started  
up the Congregation of the Blessed Fausto;  we give ourselves credit  
(and hope it counts) every time we go by a church (of any  
denomination) on Sunday rides.  We ecumenically give members of  
others denominations or non-denominations, even non-believers, credit  
as well, if they are along for the ride.  We have been known to stop  
at one particularly well-situated church, Our Lady of Perpetual Help,  
at the top of the last big hill on The Brick, to catch our breath, to  
catch the view, even to offer some whispered prayers of thanks for  
getting us to the spot where it's all downhill from there.   It  
wouldn't hurt to have some discretely applied professional guidance.

For a (very Italian) view of the spiritual aspect of cycling see:   
http://www.canadiancyclist.com/races03/mtbworlds/ghisallo/frameset.htm

There's a nice picture of a bust of our patron there, among pictures  
of other more or less sacred mementos and relics.

Bill


On Aug 21, 2008, at 10:11 AM, Jeremiah Ayers wrote:

Sure, I see how it is!

jeremiah



On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Bob Nunnink <bobnunnink at gmail.com>  
wrote:
September 28th sounds like a great day for a ride. The nice people in  
NY central cross series have scheduled buck hill for Saturday the  
27th this year.  They must want to drink beer at the Rosterfish too.   
Mark me down as attending.

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:33 AM, William Lodico <wlodico at stny.rr.com>  
wrote:
Not just a ride, but a ride and a gathering of hungry and thirsty
riders afterwards.  Always a good combination, that always seems to
lead to a good time.

It's getting to be that time.   Tradition has it that this will be
the last Sunday in September, and I'm hoping that tradition will
prevail, since Lou and I  will not be available either of the
preceding two weekends.

Lou and I are hoping to have ourselves fit and ready for the century,
will do the half century if not that far along in our training season
(time is running out, we know).

Roosterfish again?  (Why not?)  Time to start getting a head count
for our reservation?

Bill L



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