Your training partner's name is pain. You start out trying to ignore him. Can't do it.
You attempt to reason with him. No way. You try to strike a bargain. Hah.
You plead. You say "Please stop, please go away. I promise never ever to do
this again if you just leave me alone." But he won't. Pain only climbs off if you do.
Then you're beaten. - Scott Martin
One's first glimpse of freedom, in fact is often snatched from
a bike. By turning the pedals you can move more quickly towards
your most secret dreams.
-Bernard Hinault
Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds.
The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus;
it gives him no wings of his own.
-Louis J. Helle, Jr.
But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point.
The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing.
Life is the metaphor for the race.
-Donald Antrim
Riding a race bike is an art -
a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
-Valentino Rossi
You can't win without suffering. Whether it's in the mountains
or in a time trial you have to spare no effort. You may feel drained
at the finish, but the joy of winning help you forget everything...
-Bernard Hinault
As long as I breathe, I attack.
-Bernard Hinault
Try not...
Do... or do not.
There is no try. -Jedi Master Yoda
Everyday there's something that reminds me why I love this sport.
-Bernard Hinault
Hard training, easy combat;
easy training, hard combat.
- Marshal Suvorov, famous Russian General
I race to win, not to please people.
-Bernard Hinault
If you don’t have confidence,
you’ll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
You have to decide whether to put up with the pain
or whether to stop and get off the bike
-Beranrd Hinault
A race doesn't start on Sunday morning or Sunday afternoon:
You have to be aware of it throughout the week in order to be ready.
Eat wisely, sleep, train hard: a life of self control.
-Bernard Hinault
Another cyclist/blogger in my thoughts and prayers
Fat Cyclist has been blogging for a while. Usually humorous his posts reflect what most riders experience in riding. But lately things have changed. His wife Susan has been battleing cancer, but now it seems the cancer has moved into the brain. The only real option is to go through radiation therapy and even with that, the cancer will return.
The only treatment option we have open to us now, the oncologist said, is radiation therapy. And after that’s done, Susan will be better for a few months, but then the tumors will come back, and the brain can’t take another dose of radiation like that. So, absent a miracle, Susan only has months to live.
I can only begin to understand the emotions that they are going through. The fact that they have kids only make the story that much more sad.
So Eldon (the Fat Cyclist) and his family are also in my thoughts and prayers lately. And these things really put into perspective life, work, play and cycling. Hug the kids more, snuggle with the wife more, because we really don't know what tomorrow will bring.
Wednesday 05/07/2008 | 12:07 pm
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