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In the last few weeks, I've had a resurgence of interest in cycling. Of course, I never fully lost my interest, but I tend to ebb and flow in many facets of my life. Cycling, unfortuately, is no exception. My resurgence was sparked by the lack of leadership at my college's cycling club. I stepped in to fill the power vaccuum and look forward to presiding over the club next year. Since my informal election, I can't get bicycles, trails, roads, routes, maps, my out of shape legs and training programs out of my head. I think that's why my girlfriend isn't too happy with me these days...
I read today that Marco Pantani died, which is, I suppose, my first cycling related death experience. It inspired me to return to the cycling memories I have of 5, 6, even 7 years ago when I first began hearing of the professional biking world and the little elephant himself. For better or worse, the Mountain Biker Files are up there on the list of bike related stuff I remember, winning over rides, crashes, bikes of bygone days and other actually important bicycle memories for the precious few brain cells I've got working this late at night, or rather, this early in the morning.
I'm the "Josh" who wrote "my first race kicked ass." At the time of this writing, it's the fourth story from the bottom under the "racing" category.
That was five years ago.
15 to 20. I've added a whole third to my life since then and where has it brought me? The smart ass answer is, obviously, nowhere: I'm laboring away at a stupid story about bicycles on the same website I used to avoid doing my 9th grade spanish home work. And although my grammar is better and my spelling is less offensive, what's new? different? memorable? exciting?
Too many questions, not enough energy to anser them all. In fact, I've just had what the elloquent call a brain fart. I can't think of one answer to any of those questions. So I think I'll leave this as an open ended entry to this multi-person-journal-with-a-theme. I invite any other personalities to chime in with responses, musings, and growths (be they benign or malignant (pardon the stupid pun)).
Please reply to jbengal@brandeis.edu or to this site directly. As I said five years ago, give me something to read when I'm bored or contemplative.
Thanks for reading,
Josh
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