i love cycling. i have for the past couple of years. i don't know why, but i am addicted to anything having to do with it...strategy, equipment, riders specs, crew leaders instructions. i love to read up on it and watch anything that i can about it. there is something cool about a sport in which 9 guys act cooperatively, sacrificing their strength and bodies for the team leader to win. it's not an individual sport as so many of us think, because all we hear about is Lance Armstrong, but what you don't hear about are the George Hincapies, Jose Azavedos, and last year the Floyd Landis', but we would not know who Lance was if it wasn't for these people and the others who make up his team. it is these guys who take the wind in the face and let Lance draft off of them. i just love that. i get so selfish sometimes, but what would happen if this became a part of my everyday life. laying down my strength and time so that someone else might succeed. that no one would hear my name, and yet there is still such pride in someone else succeeding. i want to lift Jesus high all day every day, lay my pride and self aside so that he might be glorified. if i am good, it is only because he is great. he is so beautiful.

ps...you know what i am going to be watching for the next three weeks. OLN every night. and bytheway, lance took over the yellow jersey today. rock on discovery channel team.