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[camwyn]

AUGH THEY WANT ME AT THE STARTING LINE AT 5:30 AM

WTF

SRSLY, WTF

Dude, that is totally fish o'clock. (Fish o'clock being 'any time of the morning sufficiently early that only people who have to go fishing that day should be out and about'.) And if you don't think it is, I might point out that the train from Grove Street to 33rd Street takes roughly twenty minutes to half an hour. The starting line for the race is at 110th Street. Even better, on Saturdays and Sundays, the PATH only runs one train every half hour during the fish o'clock times... and it goes to Hoboken first, then to New York. I could take the other PATH train to the World Trade Center instead and then the 2 or 3 train all the way up, but that still doesn't get around the 'one PATH train per route every half hour during the times when ALL THE SANE PEOPLE ARE SLEEPING' policy.

There is a very real possibility I may have to be on the train at FOUR FRICKIN THIRTY AM to get to Manhattan in time for reporting in at all.

Guh. I wonder if Hostels International has bicycle space for Saturday night. Sleeping in Manhattan may be simpler.

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[batyatoon]

That isn't just fish o'clock.

That is FISH-FLAVORED SODA o'clock.

[camwyn]

HI is sold out for Saturday night. poop.

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

fish o'clock

Personally, I like "crack of sparrowshit", but I'll have to remember "fish o'clock" for times when "sparrowshit" is not socially appropriate.

[aberrantangels]

My friend solaas calls it "sparrowfart o'clock", but that's only marginally less inappropriate. (Maybe "basketball bat o'clock"*, as in what you have to be as crazy as to get up voluntarily at that hour?)

* rugby bat, Seeker's bat, etc. as appropirate.

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

*groan* And here I thought the 7am start times of foot races were bad. *pets* Um... stop by a starbucks on the way over for a quadruple espresso?

[camwyn]

Well, this thing has a staggered start. The century riders leave at 6, the 75-milers leave at 6:30, the 55-milers at 7, the 35-milers at 7:30, and the 15-milers at 8. (I think. I only know the first two for sure.) They want us there at 5:30 to get processed through and sent on our way as soon as the ride opens at 6. Expected return time: any time between noon and 6 PM.

gah. gaaaaaaaah.

I think I may come home from lunch on Saturday and go to sleep.

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

This sounds like a very wise decision.

Also?

Sunrises are good. Just keep repeating this.

[camwyn]

I think I need a short gay Japanese-American actor to turn up on Sunday morning. I'm led to understand George Takei takes unwholesome delight in running long distances at early hours- and in dragooning other people into accompanying him.

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

*gigglesnorts* Never mind we already know that at one point he looked damn good with his shirt off.

[camwyn]

This is me not particularly minding. Nope.

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

Of course, you'd probably have more luck convincing William Shatner to take his shirt off, but I very much doubt he'd be wanting to run anywhere at fish o'clock.

And no, I do not have a gratuitous shirtless!Dr. McCoy icon. This is actually quite tragic.

[camwyn]

A shirtless William Shatner would be more in the way of a disincentive to get up and participate in the world, really.

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

What if he stands there and sings? That'd be incentive to get the hell away, at least.

[camwyn]

Maybe if he got into the apartment via the window, but the doorway's not wide enough for me to grab my bike and get past a singing Shatner. I'd be more likely to cower in the tub.

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

... Is the doorway wide enough to let a singing Shatner in?

[camwyn]

Well, hell, we got the IKEA couch through there...

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

Well then, your home is officially non-Shatner-proof.

I suggest installing an acting coach at the door. That should deter him.

[rajrr.livejournal.com]

Ew. Yes. Early bed for you, missy!

[camwyn]

All the hostels I can find are sold out, and I refuse to pay $139 for one night when it's not vitally important that I do so. At a hostel I would've paid $30 for bed and a place to lock the bike, which is all I want.

I think Saturday I will be going to bed either immediately after lunch or as soon as the sun goes down. I also think I'm going to the LUSH store after work today and buying one of their sleep-inducing bath bombs and one of their stimulant temple balms, the first for Saturday, the second for Sunday morning.

The hell of this is that even if I had a car I would still have to be up at fish o'clock, because I would need to find a place to PARK the thing once I crossed the river.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

The simplest way to avoid this would be to not ride in the marathon at all. But, somehow I don't think that'll happen.

[argonautilus.livejournal.com]

My condolances and I wish you the best of luck. Most of all have fun!

[viridian.livejournal.com]

*gleefully steals "fish o'clock" for future use*

[trinityday.livejournal.com]

Okay, that just sucks.