Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.
I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.
I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99
There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.
