Photo: Thomas Ducroquet
Dug and I were talking about cross racing the other day. He said “you’re hooked aren’t you.” I responded in the affirmative, but I really don’t know why. All I can come up with is this:
Racing cross is kind of like gay sex. For most people there's no reason in the world why it should be appealing, but for a certain sub-segment of the population, it is—the difficulty of it notwithstanding—and they can't get enough.
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so you're saying you're gay.
ReplyDelete(not that there's anything wrong with that.)
There's some overlap between the two sub-segments, but they're not the same. Besides, as a working, married bike racer, I don't have time to maintain yet another relationship.
ReplyDeleteTwo relationships is enough then?
ReplyDeleteDepends on how you define relationship. If I just have relationships with my wife and my bikes (collectively), then I have two. If I have relationships with my wife, each of my children, each of my bikes, and my job, then I have ten. Either way, I don't have time for one more, whether it would be a 10% or a 50% increase from where I am today.
ReplyDeleteIf it is difficult for you, you are doing it wrong. Not the CX, the sex.
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