Momentum Is King

I'm now in the San Francisco airport awaiting departure and reflecting on the past two weeks. I realized how sore my legs are. The workouts have been great, actually really tough, and I feel like it's really brought me back and I'm looking forward to a little recover and hammering the race.

I once had a guy that rides only single-speed bicycles say to me "momentum is king". He told me he learned this early in his cycling career and that he now applied it to almost everything in his life. It's incredibly more difficult to climb a hill on a single-speed bicycle than it is on a bicycle with gears. You need to hit the hill with as much momentum as possible and hope it will carry you over the top.

This wise man of then 24 years old told me that whenever he has something big coming up, he looks for something positive, something moving his life forward, focuses on that and uses it as his forward momentum. Whatever hill he has to climb is made that much easier through positive visualization, relaxation, and the ability to meld with the bike and maintain that momentum. The Zen of Single-Speed I suppose, and I'm trying to apply that positive workout momentum of the last 10 days to next Saturday. Looking good.

So 16 hours of travel now, no pictures yet as SFO is pretty drab at the moment. Looks like a lot of team members are on this flight. I don't know any of them but hope to soon.

Next stop London.