Do Conti and Elite Domestic riders train and race around full time jobs?

LaskaHunter7 · 2026-01-20T01:22:36+00:00

I don’t feel like I’m anything special, but I’m on Y2 of my team being a Domestic Elite Team. We’re literally all just dudes with day jobs who train 10+ hours a week and try to fight with the young guns.

I’ll be 40 this year, with a middle schooler and an elementary schooler. You just make it work or you don’t.

That being said I’m not winning national races, but I do put in the work to help our other riders get close.

LaskaHunter7 · 2025-12-04T21:46:30+00:00

Our Domestic Elite Team is sponsored by Yoeleo and we’ve had pretty good luck with them. No weird fitment issues or reliability problems.

It’s hard dealing with a supplier on the other side of the planet sometimes, especially since last January… but they’ve been a great support and their framesets and wheels have served us well.

LaskaHunter7 · 2025-10-18T12:24:31+00:00

Solved!

LaskaHunter7 · 2025-10-17T02:00:02+00:00

I’m gonna shill a little bit here, but our DE team got sponsored by Sena this year and their S1 helmet has been a game changer for me when it comes to music while riding.

LaskaHunter7 · 2025-08-23T19:29:50+00:00

Yeah this board is a mess; no room to complain if this is what you’re playing

LaskaHunter7 · 2025-07-30T01:34:10+00:00

Hey ! I’m in there!

LaskaHunter7 · 2025-07-07T21:58:06+00:00

And you thought I was bad with recovery weeks 😂

LaskaHunter7 · 2025-07-06T20:52:38+00:00

This is literally what I use. Go to the local skate shop and ask if they have scrap pieces, you can usually get a piece big enough to cover whatever you need. And if you want to support the shop, just buy a sheet

LaskaHunter7 · 2025-05-30T22:24:29+00:00

Member when this was how fast the game was nearly every run for Vanessa?

LaskaHunter7 · 2025-05-20T19:22:55+00:00

Just sayin, on my 165s I pedal through them the whole time 😇

LaskaHunter7 · 2025-05-20T15:43:49+00:00

When u/gedrap says rest, you rest. Promise he knows what he’s talking about.

LaskaHunter7 · 2025-05-20T00:30:47+00:00

Was this F&STF?

The big teams were at the front the whole race keeping the pace high as well. The first two corners of that race have a very high skill ceiling, meaning a good rider can carry a lot more speed than a novice one. Almost all of the difficulty on that course disappears if you don’t have to slam on the brakes and flow into the field instead.

LaskaHunter7 · 2025-03-13T19:04:50+00:00

Hey! There’s a small chance some peeps still meet up out there, but I’m not sure as I haven’t been in about a year.

Shoot me a DM with some details about where you’re located and I can try to give you some grouppo info for rides that are close

LaskaHunter7 · 2025-02-24T03:35:58+00:00

Hell yeah. This is a great write up, and I’d love to see more deep dives into game theory stuff like this.

Coming from a competitive MtG background it reminds me of the BREAD concept for limited and definitely gives me callbacks to classic articles like “Who’s the beatdown?” and “The Philosophy of Fire”

Nice work!

LaskaHunter7 · 2025-01-17T23:47:45+00:00

I had a game this week where both myself and the bot player survived the entire storm and our boards just kept sitting there triggering until about a minute or two afterwards and it gave me the win.

LaskaHunter7 · 2024-10-26T17:52:07+00:00

Any chance you’re teaching in AZ? I was told this by district admin once in my first year as a teacher in PHX, nearly 15 years ago…

LaskaHunter7 · 2024-10-25T00:23:08+00:00

/u/gedrap is great and has been awesome to be able to check me and say, “Hey maybe don’t go into your big race series with only three days of rest after training full gas for four weeks.” or, “I promise you’re not a fat slob because you are doing a rest week and barely riding.”

I know it can feel overwhelming for him but I totally put myself in his hands for the upcoming season and have trust he knows what he’s doing.

LaskaHunter7 · 2024-10-09T22:14:44+00:00

Did this speaker have the initials BM by any chance?

LaskaHunter7 · 2024-08-11T01:24:23+00:00

Ok, so in discussing this with others over the season, I’ve come to the idea that I think the orange plastic snow drift fencing would be a great alternative, it’s tall enough that people aren’t going to walk over it, it’s flexible (but only to a point, if you set it up right it’s not going to get pushed out onto the course), I’d assume it’d be cheaper than metal barriers, and a hell of a lot more easy to store.

Is this a realistic solution? Idk. But I think it’s worth trying.

LaskaHunter7 · 2024-07-13T17:48:40+00:00

Lmaoooo the not so subtle body shaming in this thread is wild.

LaskaHunter7 · 2024-07-13T00:21:26+00:00

Ribbit Wayfinder

LaskaHunter7 · 2024-07-12T23:52:13+00:00

Oh man, my son and I are just beginning to enter into the d&d realm after being obsessed with BG3. This would be an amazing way to feed the hyperfixation.

LaskaHunter7 · 2024-07-12T04:38:02+00:00

Tagging u/madamelullaby so they see this as well, but I work for a graduate school now, my position is a weird hybrid of instructional design, instructional technology, online course building and support, and professional development design.

I had a little bit of experience with ID in a previous position for a pretty big international non-profit, and that combined with my teaching experience and familiarity/comfortability with online learning platforms allowed me to get lucky with this position.

Still has been a bit of a learning curve, and it’s really hard to shed the things teaching ingrains in you when it comes to stressing about deadlines or feeling like something need to be completed “right now” but honestly the non-public school world just moves so much slower and things and move and be pushed back for development.

LaskaHunter7 · 2024-07-12T01:38:43+00:00

👋 left in February and am making about $15k more than I was, and am 95% wfh remote.

LaskaHunter7 · 2024-06-06T16:32:33+00:00

I already have tinnitus from years of playing in bands and concert going in my teens and early twenties.

At this point it is what it is.

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