Shit. What is it, January?

The sO.Cal race season seems to start earlier and earlier every year and doesn’t settle into the sunset til late September and beyond.  It’s telling; the sport ebbs and flows; participation in racing waxes and wanes;  Southern California is a barometer of the enthusiasm for all things cycling {given the obvious shit about the lack of jacked-up weather in this part of town}.

Enough digression.  Let’s get to the point.

Fast Friday is back. Why? Because the race season is upon us and personalities are forceful catalysts for speed. Get enough hot blood talent, testosterone from a tube, and you’ve got a recipe for delivering snot, spit & every other bodily fluid and excrement that’s excited and spewed by the simple prospect of putting it on the line, taking it to the limit of your individual ability to suffer so you can revel in the excitement of thin rubber on the road, braking, swerving, staying in contact, cajoling and reprimanding, experiencing the sensation of speed in close proximity, maintaining the choreography of the paceline, eating the pain in your lungs and legs, tasting the blood in your throat and making sure everyone else is suffering more than yourself.  What’s odd and sick is these are all sensations that seem normal and familiar. You’re fighting to keep it all together so you can pump up your own volume as you collectively drop everyone’s ass just to make the point that your superiority is more sublime.  Then you compliment everyone for their effort and praise their talent and they know you’re full of shit because they recognize their weakness is obvious since they’ve just exhibited a lack of integrity through their inability to suffer and their sense of being a pansy-ass overwhelms them. Maybe they feel a little embarrassed but they know the work they need to do to up their game and there’s a nagging desire to throw in the towel {now} because it’s a long season ahead and there’s been hardly any respite from last year and the new year has already started. Damn.

Ahhhhh. Fast Fridays. Better than ever.

Move it Animaux!

Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jowo/63770749/in/faves-lovely_bicycle/