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This mid-week post is brought to you by the p.b.h. sandwich, "who knew life could taste so sweet!?!"
Just making a quickie before the weekend mayham starts. Basically the story I'm going to tell is for all friends of the two-wheeled pain machine.
I was riding the other day with Craig and we were doing some intervals and during one rest period he told me he felt like shit to which I retorted, rather bluntly, that it was all in his head. At that moment I decided to get a little inspirational as a story I remembered from a late 90s movie Gataca popped into my head.
Background of the movie is that it takes place in the future at the point where scientists have unlocked the genome and can basically 'manufacture' a baby for the parents. The parents can choose whether they want a kid that's athletic or smart or musical or all of the above.
Now the main character was concieved naturally and wasn't given much chance, by the scientists estimates, to live past his mid 30s. The parents where kind of bummed so they had another kid 'manufactured' to be an All-American type. The two kids obviously competed against each other as brothers do. How they would compete is by swimming out into the ocean side by side and whoever turned around first would obviously loose. One day when they were 30-ish they got together and felt inspired to give it a go, and the natural kid was so driven that he started to swim away from his 'msrp' bro. The MSRP dude could think of going any farther, but the Nat dude kept going. The MSRP dude, while half drowning half treading water asks the Nat brother, "how are you doing this? I don't understand" which the Nat bro responds, "I never save anything for the way back," and swims to his bro's rescue.
Just throwing some inspiration for you'all out there who are racing or otherwise. At some point the numbers, the science, the bike, the plan-don't mean shit. It's all about your mental state. Keep'er Real!
photo : AFP in VeloNews
Just making a quickie before the weekend mayham starts. Basically the story I'm going to tell is for all friends of the two-wheeled pain machine.
I was riding the other day with Craig and we were doing some intervals and during one rest period he told me he felt like shit to which I retorted, rather bluntly, that it was all in his head. At that moment I decided to get a little inspirational as a story I remembered from a late 90s movie Gataca popped into my head.
Background of the movie is that it takes place in the future at the point where scientists have unlocked the genome and can basically 'manufacture' a baby for the parents. The parents can choose whether they want a kid that's athletic or smart or musical or all of the above.
Now the main character was concieved naturally and wasn't given much chance, by the scientists estimates, to live past his mid 30s. The parents where kind of bummed so they had another kid 'manufactured' to be an All-American type. The two kids obviously competed against each other as brothers do. How they would compete is by swimming out into the ocean side by side and whoever turned around first would obviously loose. One day when they were 30-ish they got together and felt inspired to give it a go, and the natural kid was so driven that he started to swim away from his 'msrp' bro. The MSRP dude could think of going any farther, but the Nat dude kept going. The MSRP dude, while half drowning half treading water asks the Nat brother, "how are you doing this? I don't understand" which the Nat bro responds, "I never save anything for the way back," and swims to his bro's rescue.
Just throwing some inspiration for you'all out there who are racing or otherwise. At some point the numbers, the science, the bike, the plan-don't mean shit. It's all about your mental state. Keep'er Real!
photo : AFP in VeloNews
posted by John at 10:19 PM
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