-- Just one, mind
Like Rapha says, the history of cycle racing abounds with stories of endurance, will power and sheer courage on an epic scale. The capacity of bike riders to drive themselves relentlessly day after day through the pain barrier and way beyond makes them a breed apart. They redefine heroism in sport. The suffering is gratuitous, the mileage they cover Herculean, and both make a crucible in which a unique character is forged: an apparently cheerful indifference to the pain inflicted by bike and road, suffused with the transcendent desire to conquer both.
It is these ideals that compel Lunnsters from their warm beds and on to their bikes 5:15 a.m every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Is there a better start to the day than a quiet celebration of joyous suffering, at 30 kmh, with fellow brethren?
Sometimes, the feeling runs so deep Lunnsters are inspired to find words of their own.
John McG today was moved thus: No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
Doug T says anaphylactic shock comes on pretty fast, so one will do it.
Like Rapha says, the history of cycle racing abounds with stories of endurance, will power and sheer courage on an epic scale. The capacity of bike riders to drive themselves relentlessly day after day through the pain barrier and way beyond makes them a breed apart. They redefine heroism in sport. The suffering is gratuitous, the mileage they cover Herculean, and both make a crucible in which a unique character is forged: an apparently cheerful indifference to the pain inflicted by bike and road, suffused with the transcendent desire to conquer both.
It is these ideals that compel Lunnsters from their warm beds and on to their bikes 5:15 a.m every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Is there a better start to the day than a quiet celebration of joyous suffering, at 30 kmh, with fellow brethren?
Sometimes, the feeling runs so deep Lunnsters are inspired to find words of their own.
John McG today was moved thus: No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
Doug T says anaphylactic shock comes on pretty fast, so one will do it.
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