{"id":2840,"date":"2009-08-23T15:40:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T20:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2009-08-23T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T20:40:36","slug":"oh-to-be-young-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/23\/oh-to-be-young-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh to Be Young Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was thumbing through the Wall Street Journal August 7th Weekend Journal and ran across this story, “Cycling’s One-in-a-Million Story<\/strong><\/a>“.\u00c2\u00a0 Reed Albergotti writes how this overworked Wall Street worker buys a bike to stay fit and finds she has extraordinary talent as a professional bicycle racer. Evelyn Stevens worked 50 hour weeks on Wall Street. Now she has a totally different lifestyle. I do not think of the WSJ as a source of bicycling stories but it did get me thinking.<\/p>\n

According to her coach, Matt Koschara, “She’s the most complete rider I’ve ever come across.”<\/p>\n

Velonews.com also wrote about Ms. Stevens in a July 14th article<\/strong><\/a> on their website. The author thinks Evelyn Stevens is a rising star.<\/p>\n

Now what does that have to do with Texbiker.net and me? Well, I did not really find bicycle riding until 1979 when I was 32 years old. This was past the prime years for starting a racing career, even if I had some amount of talent. When I read one of the articles or hear a story about some athlete discovery I have a chance to do a little what-if dreaming.<\/p>\n

As it is, I enjoy riding and though I am not a racer I do enjoy a fast downhill or a strong tailwind to speed me along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was thumbing through the Wall Street Journal August 7th Weekend Journal and ran across this story, “Cycling’s One-in-a-Million Story“.\u00c2\u00a0 Reed Albergotti writes how this overworked Wall Street worker buys a bike to stay fit and finds she has extraordinary …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[899,900],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-evelyn-stevens","tag-wall-street-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-JO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}