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 This section will grow with time. Below you can read about training progress, other Fireflies events and news live from the ride. Consult the archive on the right to view archived messages. |
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| Jake Scott, one of the original Fireflies There's a moment each year when I look around and I can see something growing and it touches me, because I know that all these people are here for the same reason and that there's a mutual understanding that comes from somewhere deep inside each of them. For me this moment came later this year than usual. I had begun to worry that it would never happen. But then it did... We had just come up Glandon through an icy wind shear that carried with it a cold and ruthless rain. I mean really freezing and all you've got on is a thin skin of Lycra with exposed legs and arms. I can't stop grinning as I force my body against the blast of wind and wonder how the hell a lighter person is going to fight it. It's either grin or cry in these instances and besides when it's this tough you're reminded of why you're doing it. So I grin. Over the top, please let there be a little warm hut with chocolat chaud and a radiator that works you think and there it is. Inside there's a group of Fireflies, bedraggled and shivering, huddled around the radiator that works, clutching steaming cups of chocolat chaud. OH YES! So you try to get dry and cease trembling, which is like having hiccups of the body and others arrive. It's always great to see those faces come in from a climb like that. Reddened with the cold and panting in the thin Alpine air and always a triumphant, lively grin. The eyes gleaming and so ALIVE. A cheer goes up for every one of them and someone gives up their pew by the radiator "no, I insist", so polite and genuinely selfless. I'm starting to feel it now, the moment rendered in the pallid gloom of this little mountain café. Steam rises from sodden clothing and the room fills with Fireflies and some other French and Italian cyclists. Someone begins to whistle "Raindrops keep falling on my head" and one by one a Firefly will join in, humming, thensinging until everyone is belting it out and I see tears in their eyes and that, that is the moment when I know we're a family and we're doing it again and every one of them is giving more than they thought they could. So I grin again. An original Firefly. Posted by Fireflies 2005 on . |
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