Free Verse Friday: I Am Not Afraid
If you do something
Enough
There comes a time
Where once there was
Terror
Or at least apprehension
There is now only
Expectation
This is what I tell myself is
Happening
With regards to the race
The race I will race
Tomorrow
The
Park City
Point
to
Point
I have done this race
Once before
And I remember well
How completely shattered
I was
At the end
(As well as well before the end)
Fourteen
Thousand
Feet of climbing
in
Seventy
Eight
Miles
Should I be anxious?
Should I be worried?
Should I be afraid?
Yes, yes, yes
But
I
Am
Not.
I have not
Made lists
Gathered gear
Or pored over
Elevation profiles
I have a plan
A simple plan
I will just ride
Until I cross
The finish line
Is this shoulder shrug
Of a plan
Because I have become
Used to racing
Week after week
After week?
Or is it because
I am a fool
And shall shortly
Learn
A valuable and
Painful
Lesson?
I will know the answer
To a degree, at least
By this time
Tomorrow
Thank you.
Comment by GenghisKhan | 08.31.2012 | 11:37 am
Good luck tomorrow. I suspect you are a fool… with a plan; you are soooo devious!
Comment by GenghisKhan | 08.31.2012 | 12:23 pm
Forgot to add this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yaPp7fiPBI
It’s on your playlist, right?
Comment by ClydesdalePilot | 08.31.2012 | 12:46 pm
Today
At 1:00PM
I am getting a bike fit.
Thanks to you.
I couldn’t decide
Between Retul
and the Specialized BG Fit
Until YOU came along.
Your rave review
Your great results
Your superpower of asking them for super cool bikes and gear and helmets and junk
Have helped me make up my mind.
Besides, if Specialized hears that
YOU are the reason
they sell more helmets
they sell more fittings
they sell more bikes
they may be willing to give you more
when it comes time
to raise money
to fight
cancer.
Thank you.
PS: Good luck! You’ll do awesome!
Comment by Ed | 08.31.2012 | 1:10 pm
Good luck, Fatty, The Hammer and everyone else! This one’s on my bucket list.
Comment by Skye | 08.31.2012 | 2:28 pm
If I try
really hard
I can find a hill
with 4,000 feet
of elevation
to climb slowly, on Saturday.
I will not try really hard though.
Instead I will go to Farmer’s Market
and eat Thai food and buy zucchini
and think of other people suffering through
14,000 feet of climbing
while I ride home with fresh veggies
on a flat sidewalk-y ride.
Thank goodness I need zucchini.
Thank you.
Comment by Miles Archer | 08.31.2012 | 4:44 pm
Oh Great Khan -
I think this one is better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQy5vKAaTuA
This is the best riding song ever – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqpHPrrMGvU
Comment by sdcadbiker | 08.31.2012 | 6:08 pm
Allez Fatty! I’m jealous, I’d love to do that race! And one day I will.
Comment by Dave T | 08.31.2012 | 6:19 pm
Up up I go
so very slow
but down down
will be entirely different show
especially listen to this old school gem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWPWegM5QO0
Comment by roan | 08.31.2012 | 6:28 pm
Reading above comments
And earlier posts.
Y’all will do
Awe&some, better than most.
As for my bucket list
Has a big hole.
Not riding enough
And climbing so sloe
Gin.
Thank you.
Comment by mykill | 09.1.2012 | 3:29 pm
a day late to the
free verse party
lucky for me this is not a race
tonight i will also not race
to dinner and a play and a movie
and in the morning i will not race
to breakfast, nothing close to epic.
But in the spirit of all this
early nineties funkitude in the comments
This, however, is Epic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERTT_sv8sV0
And my favorite climbing earworm
Thank you
Comment by ac | 09.1.2012 | 6:45 pm
I dunno about those ear-worms. How about Luke Million, “Arnold”?
“Dowwnn, up!
Dowwnn, up!
Dowwnn, up!
Come on! More energy.
Come on! One more time.”
Or perhaps even the “Cookie remix” of the same to include the lyrics,
“Put the cookie down. Now!”
Comment by dennzio | 09.2.2012 | 6:08 am
but how this all looks
in slow motion
is the revelation…
suffering merges with joy
and I am who I am
Comment by Jason | 09.2.2012 | 3:59 pm
How about posting your garmin file for the p2p race, let’s see if you actually did the full course?
Comment by the Putti | 09.2.2012 | 7:43 pm
tomorrow I race
what you say
race I say
you dont race you say
well I am I say
no way you say
enough I say
some running some biking
some sweating no crying
wishing I had a fc jersey
alas, sad representation of the brand I am
never the less….
excited I am
to finish mid-pack
oh… and this http://youtu.be/8Fxk2JrZgvA
thank you
Comment by cece | 09.3.2012 | 7:36 am
Go Fatty
Go!