Campbell Tests Draft & Smell Buster Bibs

Tim Campbell, president of Notre Dame Cycling, was issued a prototype set of bib shorts to test out over the next few weeks. The bibs, appropriately called the Draft and Smell Buster Bibs, consisted of very thin spandex in the rear panel of the bibs. This made the rear panel see through. The thin mesh also allowed for any sort of smells and emissions, oh so very common among cyclists when the pace gets high and control of certain body functions begin to cease, to vent out the rear.
Campbell was very pleased with the shorts. "I never had anyone sit on my wheel for any of the stop ahead sprints. No one was getting a free ride. Best of all, when I came back to the room to change, I noticed my bibs weren't smelling up my entire dorm room as usual. I picked up the bibs to investigate and as normal there was a brown streak, but no smell! Amazing!"
Ty Baker had only one word for the shorts, "Hideous."
The women on the team were oddly intrigued, but concluded that the smell and that fact that they were oddly intrigued meant the shorts were not a good thing. "I mean, its gross, but I just couldn't stop looking. It was kind of like a car wreck..." newcomer Meg Martin said.
The overall opinion for the Draft & Smell Buster Bibs on the team was a negative one. Perhaps Web Dude Mike Lavery said it best when saying "No one on the team wants to see, or smell, that."

Well, everyone except for Matt Prygoski - he likes dudes.

Washington, Washington.....

A photo of Mt. washington, NH, home of the infamous Mt Washington Hill climb, as seen by Mike Lavery on a long ride at home this week. Lavery was planning on doing a few hill reps up Washington, but then decided on an alternate route...

Campbell tames Firery Hell

ND cycling team captain, Tim "DJ Sunshine" Campbell, took part in the 2007 Chicago Marathon. Tim did some warm up chin ups in the garage pre-race, saying " I want to look huge for the ladies." Tim's goals for the day were to gain some marathon experience for Ironman Lake Placid 2008, and hopefully to break the 3 hour mark in his first 26.2 mile run.
Campbell followed Mike Lavery's advise of not running the first mile at sub 5 min mile pace. As Lavery had learned from past marathons, it made you look cool for the first mile, but not at mile 20 when you were walking and or limping like a lame dog. Campbell came through the 13.1 mile mark in just under 1:30, on perfect pace to break 3 hours.

Unfortunately, the blazing hot temperatures of the day were too much for almost all of the runners out there, including Tim, who burnt up in the heat, but still finished in a respectable 3:17.

Campbell commented, " It was tough out there, I struggled from aid station to aid station. Everytime I thought about quitting, I looked down at my glistening muscles and thought ' I look so huge right now, the ladies are loving this ' and it gave the will to go on."

Campbell is now deep into the off season ( Jan Ullrich style) before whipping back into shape for collegiate racing come february.

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~Mike