life as a bike jockey: the day after (worlds)

Ah … the day after the World Championships. The day for relaxing, bag packing, reminiscing and the shouldas, the couldas and the wouldas.

On course in Champery
Photo courtesy
Nicola Gelshorn

This was my second World Championships and there’s something to be said about just having the experience. Mark Twain has my favorite quote on the subject. “If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way.” That definitely was the sentiment for my first world champs in Canberra, Australia in 2009. I don’t think I came into this event as wide-eyed as the first, but again I still learned a lot.

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