Thursday, June 24, 2004
Profiles
The list of riders already signed up for the Israel Bike Tour gets longer every day. When you sign up you are given a chance to write a brief profile and even include a picture.
It's exciting to read the profiles and also to see the many places, all over the US, Canada, UK and elsewhere, from which people are coming to ride in the tour. There are, of course, many Israelis as well, overwhelmingly Olim chadashim (new immigrants) and not so chadashim.
The age range is also very broad. There are men and women in their seventies who are doing the ride. Can you imagine getting passed by one of them?
This happened to me frequently in the New York City Marathon and was pretty embarrassing (and that was ten years ago!). One of the reasons I am training so hard is to prevent this humiliating scenario from coming to pass again.
It's exciting to read the profiles and also to see the many places, all over the US, Canada, UK and elsewhere, from which people are coming to ride in the tour. There are, of course, many Israelis as well, overwhelmingly Olim chadashim (new immigrants) and not so chadashim.
The age range is also very broad. There are men and women in their seventies who are doing the ride. Can you imagine getting passed by one of them?
This happened to me frequently in the New York City Marathon and was pretty embarrassing (and that was ten years ago!). One of the reasons I am training so hard is to prevent this humiliating scenario from coming to pass again.
