keeping it in perspective

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. - Thomas Huxley


I found myself listening to a sports psycologist the other morning on the radio. He was talking about how he was once worked with the US Olympic bicycle team, talking to them about the nerves that come along with competition. What he said went something like this.

You are going to find yourself out there, competing against the best of the best, in front of tens of thousands of people along the route and millions of people watching on TV. It's a huge stage. But you're simply riding your bike...just like you did when you were 10. Just go out and have fun. Everything else will fall into place.

Simply riding a bike. Something I have done for years. Just like swimming. Just like running. Practically everything I did when I was a kid involved one of those three things (and a ball, frisbee or racket). It was fun then.

And still is today.