Return to normality
Life is slowly returing to normal for me after a hectic few weeks of wedding preparation, celebration and relaxation. After seven years, my new wife and I tied the knot on the 15 October. The honeymoon was in Paris and we stayed in a hotel a peloton's length from the finish line of the Tour de France. No, I didn't take the bike.
Filling people in on our history at the wedding got me thinking about how I measure my time and remember when things happened. I realise that a lot of my life over the past ten years has been marked out by what was going on in world cycling and my own cycling life. For instance, I know I have been with my wife for seven years because can I remember where and with who I watch the Tour de France each year. Jan Ullrich's victory was observed in a cramped, third floor Sheffield flat with my then flat mates. Pantani's in my first real rented house and Armstrong's was the first with my then girlfriend. Subsequent Armstrong victories make the timeline a little more confusing but luckily over the 'Armstrong' years I have the Giro's as more varied and prominent 'aide memoires'.
But as Mr Leblanc has said we are turning the page on a very long chapter in cycling history so who knows, maybe I'll be saying something totally different like "Oh yeah, I remember, that was year when Basso won the Tour and Ullrich came second". Ok, something's never change.
Incidentally I am writing this blog entry with Flock. There's been a lot of media coverage of this new browser recently and assuming this posting goes up alright its seems pretty good so far.
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