Here is the race recap from the weekend.
Saturdays road race main theme was wind. Crosswind, headwind, tailwind, 20-30 mph. I guess that is why Jason McCartney like Iowa. There is always wind. On lap two, a gap opened up in the field and Jon V was up in the lead group. I took care to not bring anyone accross, and attempted to jumop the gap. I did not succeed at gap jumping. I missed the break and then resigned my king to the field sprint.
Sundays Iowa City Criterium was less windy, more warm, and a better atmosphere. I had talked to Kim West earleir and a plan was brewing. He insisted that I get the hole shot and don't look back for a lap. I managed to stay off the front 3 laps but was quickly swallowed up. Apparently, no one wanted to sit my wheel while I try to lap the field. I sat in and rested and decided to try my luck at another break. Again, nothing. With what I though was one lap to go, I jumped off the front of the field to try to win the field sprint (two people were up the road ). I won. But apparently, it was two laps to go and not one. Silly me. I ended up 8th in the second sprint.
After the race, I was called up to the podium to talk with the officials. I quickly learned that I won the Kim West Radio Talk Show most aggressive riders award (a KWRTS TShirt). Sweet. The official proceeded to interview me for 5-10 minutes about the plan that was earlier formulated.
8th and 10th on the weekend. All and all, a good effort. I think from now on, I am just going to race for the most aggressive riders award, since I apparently cannot win races.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Pot Stirring
Anyone wanting to stir the pot on aforementioned issues, like illegal practice of dentistry, let me know 1. if you are interested, and 2 how...
News flash, American dental association sells out dentists; American people
Well kids, there is something sinister afoot in Alaska. People are doing dentistry without licences, and your government is OK with it. Why go to undergrad, dental school, pass boards, apply for licencure, when you can just be an expanded function dental axillary.
These dental axillaries get a GRE, and go to New Zealand and get an 8 mo degree. With this degree, they can do stainless steel crowns, fillings, and pull teeth. Think I am kidding… look here. By the measure of the ADA, the 8 months of “advanced dental education” is equivocal to 8 years of education, hard work, and experience working toward being a dentist. You wouldn’t let your cat or dog get surgery from an accountant, would you? Why would you let your fellow Americans receive care from some high school kid? Thank you ADA, for selling your souls to satan.
These dental axillaries get a GRE, and go to New Zealand and get an 8 mo degree. With this degree, they can do stainless steel crowns, fillings, and pull teeth. Think I am kidding… look here. By the measure of the ADA, the 8 months of “advanced dental education” is equivocal to 8 years of education, hard work, and experience working toward being a dentist. You wouldn’t let your cat or dog get surgery from an accountant, would you? Why would you let your fellow Americans receive care from some high school kid? Thank you ADA, for selling your souls to satan.
Its official, I am sick.
I came home from the WREB and took a nap. I though it might be cold in my house, so I turned up the heat. And then used two blankets. Three blankets. Four blankets. “F”, I’m sick. It turns out that I was burning the candle at both ends. Now I have a fever. Great. No 4-hour bike ride; just shivers, fever, and sickness. Good news, though, I weigh 154…
Benchmark 1 - WREB boards
Many of you are probably wondering, why did we not see Pavlovich at the Spring Classic? Well, the last four days have been consumed by my dear old friend the WREB. The WREB is a third party, national testing agency that tests candidates over four days. Once a dentist passes the WREB, he is able to apply for licenceure in the affiliated states. Well, I finished my WREB yesterday.
From what I can tell, things went well; no pink slips, no yellow slips. All the dentistry I did this weekend was, from my perspective, good products. This is not to say that the weekend was not filled with drama or chaos, but then again a $1700 test is bound to stir some anxiety, right?
The weekend, on the whole for a lot of people was a shit show. Girls crying, people failing for leaving carious tooth structure behind, people breaking burs off in teeth for endo... crazy.
Now the good part...
A colleague of mine had a patient not show up on saturday. If this happens and we do not complete the exam, colleague gets to fly to Arizona and remediate the exam in June. Now, I had two patients for this exam, each having one ideal lesion in their mouth, and having a not so great lesion in their mouth. Aside- sometimes, boards automatically shuts off the reason(see above about crying) and civility from an applicant. Most people told me, why would you let our colleague work on your patient, you should look out for yourself first. Well, no one else was willing to help our colleague, and frankly kids, it was the reasonable and civil thing to do.
Now the good part...
Moral - If you do something good and altruistic in life, it has away of coming back and fucking you over.
Colleague and I both submitted our patient for acceptance on saturday. The goal was to have colleague do his filling on saturday, and me do my filling on sunday. I finished up with my saturday patient and went on a bike ride. mid-way back form my ride, colleague called (at 5:45) and said,"Pavlov, I am still here at the clinic, they just finished grading me after 45 minutes, and I have to temporize the preparation and work on it tomorrow."
"F", I thought.
Don't count on things happening the way you envision. Well, after consulting various sources, I decided to let colleague finish his filling, and me roll the dice with my back up patients, less than ideal cavity. I did not know if it would get accepted or not, but I guess that is what you get when you lend a hand...
Sunday came and went, stress city, and I finished WREB national boards. Now just 4 weeks to wait for the results.
From what I can tell, things went well; no pink slips, no yellow slips. All the dentistry I did this weekend was, from my perspective, good products. This is not to say that the weekend was not filled with drama or chaos, but then again a $1700 test is bound to stir some anxiety, right?
The weekend, on the whole for a lot of people was a shit show. Girls crying, people failing for leaving carious tooth structure behind, people breaking burs off in teeth for endo... crazy.
Now the good part...
A colleague of mine had a patient not show up on saturday. If this happens and we do not complete the exam, colleague gets to fly to Arizona and remediate the exam in June. Now, I had two patients for this exam, each having one ideal lesion in their mouth, and having a not so great lesion in their mouth. Aside- sometimes, boards automatically shuts off the reason(see above about crying) and civility from an applicant. Most people told me, why would you let our colleague work on your patient, you should look out for yourself first. Well, no one else was willing to help our colleague, and frankly kids, it was the reasonable and civil thing to do.
Now the good part...
Moral - If you do something good and altruistic in life, it has away of coming back and fucking you over.
Colleague and I both submitted our patient for acceptance on saturday. The goal was to have colleague do his filling on saturday, and me do my filling on sunday. I finished up with my saturday patient and went on a bike ride. mid-way back form my ride, colleague called (at 5:45) and said,"Pavlov, I am still here at the clinic, they just finished grading me after 45 minutes, and I have to temporize the preparation and work on it tomorrow."
"F", I thought.
Don't count on things happening the way you envision. Well, after consulting various sources, I decided to let colleague finish his filling, and me roll the dice with my back up patients, less than ideal cavity. I did not know if it would get accepted or not, but I guess that is what you get when you lend a hand...
Sunday came and went, stress city, and I finished WREB national boards. Now just 4 weeks to wait for the results.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Boards and McDonalds
It is 6 am and I am having breakfast this morning with Bob at club McDonalds. The nicest one in town. They have plasma TVs and leather couches.
This was the first time I had been to McDonalds since last year driving to dead dog classic where we broke down twice in route to the race in Laramie, Wy.
I have boards starting this morning and for the next four days, dentistry is my life(wait, it has been for the last four years).
This was the first time I had been to McDonalds since last year driving to dead dog classic where we broke down twice in route to the race in Laramie, Wy.
I have boards starting this morning and for the next four days, dentistry is my life(wait, it has been for the last four years).
Monday, April 7, 2008
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Race Report - Altoona RR
Six team memebers travel to Altoona, IA to kick off the race season. Here is their (my) story:
Jon V. and I started the 65 mile road race, and had talked previously about riding the first part of the race conservitavely. If a break were to occur, the idea was to wait and then bridge up to the other.
On the first lap, some fellow racer stated that Cam, Landen, and Nathan got away at this very spot; a series of rollers with a headwind. It thought to myself, noted and concure. On the next lap, I attacked on those same rollers and got a small gap with two compatriote racers, some guy and Adam Price.
We traded a series of pulls and after two laps, had put 1:10 on the field. Some guy started to cramp up and was not pulling his weight, so this promped Adam and I to ride away from him. With another lap under our belt, Adam began to cramp also. Now a word about Adam Price - the guy is great, he will and does everything in his own power to get a break going in every race. Just today, he did not have the legs, and started to cramp up. I would have like to wait for him, but it wasn't in the cards today.
I started the last lap, the last 11 miles solo. I tried to ride on edge as well as possible, but looked back and saw three riders bridging up to me. Jon V, and two Bike to You guys. I was throughly cooked, and decided that I would do no more work for me the rest of the race. I had burned too many matches strying to stay away.
We road into the finishing stretch and Jon V took second in the sprint; I took third. A pretty big step up from last year; crashing out of the Altoona road race.
A word about the rest of the Team - Landen 3rd, Ian - 4th, Spence - 1st, Dave R - 4th. Everyone in the money, everyone happy.
Also, thanks to Dee Mable for the water bottle, you always need one extra.
Fin
Jon V. and I started the 65 mile road race, and had talked previously about riding the first part of the race conservitavely. If a break were to occur, the idea was to wait and then bridge up to the other.
On the first lap, some fellow racer stated that Cam, Landen, and Nathan got away at this very spot; a series of rollers with a headwind. It thought to myself, noted and concure. On the next lap, I attacked on those same rollers and got a small gap with two compatriote racers, some guy and Adam Price.
We traded a series of pulls and after two laps, had put 1:10 on the field. Some guy started to cramp up and was not pulling his weight, so this promped Adam and I to ride away from him. With another lap under our belt, Adam began to cramp also. Now a word about Adam Price - the guy is great, he will and does everything in his own power to get a break going in every race. Just today, he did not have the legs, and started to cramp up. I would have like to wait for him, but it wasn't in the cards today.
I started the last lap, the last 11 miles solo. I tried to ride on edge as well as possible, but looked back and saw three riders bridging up to me. Jon V, and two Bike to You guys. I was throughly cooked, and decided that I would do no more work for me the rest of the race. I had burned too many matches strying to stay away.
We road into the finishing stretch and Jon V took second in the sprint; I took third. A pretty big step up from last year; crashing out of the Altoona road race.
A word about the rest of the Team - Landen 3rd, Ian - 4th, Spence - 1st, Dave R - 4th. Everyone in the money, everyone happy.
Also, thanks to Dee Mable for the water bottle, you always need one extra.
Fin
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Critical Mass (ride)
One thousand apologies for the once a week blog activity. Many things have transpired in the last week, all of which have kept me from blogging.
1. I did not get the job in Bend. More news to come on that note.
2. I have been on Oral Surgery rotation, pulling teeth, scalping gums, placing dental implants. This does not lend itself to blogging.
3. Got a new race rig. Felt F1. Pictures of the updated stable to come also.
4. Watched one of the weirdest movies ever, Southland Tales. From the director of Donnie Darko.
5. Took one of three parts of my national dental boards.
Now to the most interesting thing that has happened:
I was driving home from college yesterday when the traffic rush slowed, and I noticed some orphans riding their bikes. The interesting thing about this motley crew was that it wasn't just 2-3 riders in the bunch, it was 30. This fistful of 20 somethings were riding their bike on crowed streets, had music strapped on their bikes, and a sign that read,"Omaha Critical Mass."
Now anytime one sees this many cyclist in the great city of Omaha, further inverstigation is needed. I followed these chaps to their destination, and asked about their mission. A slender fellow in black levi's and a black coat jumped up to explain that this was a Critical Mass ride. Commuters in other cities get together once a month and ride, to raise advocacy for fellow cyclists, he explained. The critical mass ride would be leaving every first friday of the month from the park by the bike coop in omaha. Nicely done.
1. I did not get the job in Bend. More news to come on that note.
2. I have been on Oral Surgery rotation, pulling teeth, scalping gums, placing dental implants. This does not lend itself to blogging.
3. Got a new race rig. Felt F1. Pictures of the updated stable to come also.
4. Watched one of the weirdest movies ever, Southland Tales. From the director of Donnie Darko.
5. Took one of three parts of my national dental boards.
Now to the most interesting thing that has happened:
I was driving home from college yesterday when the traffic rush slowed, and I noticed some orphans riding their bikes. The interesting thing about this motley crew was that it wasn't just 2-3 riders in the bunch, it was 30. This fistful of 20 somethings were riding their bike on crowed streets, had music strapped on their bikes, and a sign that read,"Omaha Critical Mass."
Now anytime one sees this many cyclist in the great city of Omaha, further inverstigation is needed. I followed these chaps to their destination, and asked about their mission. A slender fellow in black levi's and a black coat jumped up to explain that this was a Critical Mass ride. Commuters in other cities get together once a month and ride, to raise advocacy for fellow cyclists, he explained. The critical mass ride would be leaving every first friday of the month from the park by the bike coop in omaha. Nicely done.
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