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If you're a large woman in America, your whole life is an opportunity to feel self-conscious, embarrassed, resentful and way too big. You can hide in the corner or on the couch, you can go to therapy, or you can put on your lycra bike shorts and get out there and move.
—Jayne Williams, Slow Fat Triathlete

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November 30, 2005

the flight of birds permalink

Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own.
—Louis J. Helle, Jr., Spring in Washington

Posted at November 30, 2005

Comments

You know how, when you're driving across the Astoria Bridge, the seagulls fly next to the car, keeping pace, at eye level? When I'm riding long flat straightaways, I feel just like those seagulls, skimming the water at the mouth of the Columbia.

Posted by: tszuj at November 30, 2005 7:02 PM