http://www.flickr.com/photos/lanternerouge/5901695630/
This picture and one other surfaced recently on a flickr account related to a race I did in Kansas City last summer. The rights to the picture are reserved, but it offered me html code for inserting the picture into something else, so I feel like I'm doing it justice somehow right now. I'm still very confused about how photo and video copyrights work. Anyway, I paid $40 to be in that race (the cost of racing), so I feel like the least I get is an awkward picture of me from the final stretch on my blog.
Even thought it was a three lap race, I know this is from the final stretch because, for the first two laps, I went down to the finish with a big smile and my arms spread out because I knew I was going to win. Finishing the race was achievement enough. When I was going up the last hill, which was a beast, for the last time, I saw that I was gaining on a guy who had passed me a couple miles back. So, I pushed with all my remaining strength and passed him and came 42nd instead of 43rd out of 48.
If anyone asks you if you want to be in a bike race... you know, just for fun, I suggest you check a few things:
1) Is it a hilly race?
2) Will it be over 95 degrees outside?
3) Do I have a thirty-year-old, steel-framed bike? / Does everyone else have bikes that cost more than my rent for this year's rent?
who is that be-spectacled rider? it looks like an almost-famous college professor well-known to many of us as The Caret... could it be?
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