Cycling Blogs - Kathryn LaPointe

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Top Ten Signs That You Upgraded Too Soon

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1. Your best minute gap behind any racer is in double digits.

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2. Wildlife sightings replace wheel following.

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3. The cows come home… and refuse to yield trail

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4. There’s an ATV following you… and it isn’t the pace vehicle.

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5. You hear the pro award ceremony on the loudspeakers… before you finish your last lap.

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6. You finally cross the finish line just as the staff is taking down the barriers, and

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7. The free samples have all left the venue.

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8. Then, you receive congratulations that you finished. At all.

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9. Your children amuse themselves by calling you "Loser Mommy."

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10.You begin to look forward to aging up again. In nine and a half years. To 50 plus.

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Since NO ONE, not even my friends or family, wants to hear any more reasons why I come in badly last, lastly bad, stay tuned for reports from completely random strangers that I befriend in race parking lots.