The Next Armstrong?

Too much good stuff happened in Cape Cod during my vacation to write about. So I will pick one good thing which happened to me: I bought my bike. Not just any bike. This was a Specialized allez elite, with double front chainwheels and all the trimmings. After waiting weeks to pick it up, I had driven myself into a frenzy of excitement over it. I would think: "the possibilities. I could become the next Armstrong. The next Eddy Merckx." Of course I could, just as easily as Jon Brower could lose 700 pounds. It amuses me that these thoughts of becoming the worlds greatest cyclest went through my mind before I had even done a fifty mile ride.

(Written 6/05)