Slow Adrenaline
Of course waiting for the start of the race is hard. When I used to run track in high school, I always used the time to let the adrenaline in my body slowly build up until just the precise moment I needed it in order to win a sprint. But what about when the sprint is 4200 miles plus? The racers are starting to come into town. As an early arrival I got to be one of the first in fact I got to be the first person interviewed for a film that is being created concerning the deaf writer sonny Rasmussen. I have not yet met sunny but feel that I know him because I have ridden short distances and talked several times with Tom Graham from Honolulu, who is also a deaf cyclist. After a while, you forget that you cannot give a heads up of about oncoming traffic or other traffic conditions unless you are looking at the deaf writer directly in the face. No facemasks, no hand signals unless you are in front of the writer, and no banter to pass the time. Anyway my interview this morning too...