I Can Get Up In The Morning

I Think I Bit Off More Than I Could Chew. I Thought The Marathon Would Be Easier. For The Level Of Condition That I Have Now... That Was Without A Doubt The Hardest Physical Thing I Have Ever Done.

It Works Better For Me To Be Nervous And Hungry.

If You're Trying To Hide Something, You Wouldn't Keep Getting Away With It For 10 Years. Nobody Is That Clever.

Suffering, I Was Beginning To Think, Was Essential To A Good Life, And As Inextricable From Such A Life As Bliss. It’s A Great Enhancer. It Might Last A Minute, But Eventually It Subsides, And When It Does, Something Else Takes Its Place, And Maybe That Thing Is A Great Space. For Happiness. Each Time I Encountered Suffering, I Believed That I Grew, And Further Defined My Capacities – Not Just My Physical Ones, But My Interior Ones As Well, For Contentment, Friendship, Or Any Other Human Experience.

The Tour (de France) Is Essentially A Math Problem, A 2,000-mile Race Over Three Weeks That's Sometimes Won By A Margin Of A Minute Or Less. How Do You Propel Yourself Through Space On A Bicycle, Sometimes Steeply Uphill, At A Speed Sustainable For Three Weeks? Every Second Counts.