AgilisMerlin
06-02-2012, 02:44 PM
was reading this book at the pool the other day. :banana:
‘When I first came to Europe I saw people colored their hair and wore earrings. But when I colored my hair and had my ear pierced , my Directeur Sportif at Vitalicio, Javier Minguez, told me, ‘If you want to fix your hair like a queer, go play soccer. Cycling is for men. You go through misery. You ride so hard you dribble, you **** yourself, you fall on your face and bleed, but you carry on. In cycling you earn your money going through hell. Why don’t to learn to play football where you kick a ball around for an hour and a half a day and earn millions…….’
"When i first came to Europe, there were moments in which i considered going back to Colombia to carry on cycling, but also to go to university and have the life that i did not have as a kid because i was training instead of going out with my friends. Cycling closes your eyes and your social circle. You live in hotel rooms, like a clown in a mobile circus: and although you're always traveling, you never meet anyone, you can't visit anyone. It even takes your taste for travel away; when the season finishes, you don't want to to on holiday because you've been away all year. I remember in 1996, I realized I didn't have any female friends. I didn't know a single woman! I'd lost contact with the girls I knew because I was always away. One day I said to myself, 'I'm alone. Cycling has made me alone.' I couldn't even eat an ice cream alone in the park because it's not part of my diet. I went to the cinema alone, and channeled the solitude into cycling. Every time I won a stage or a time trial, I thought, 'This is my reward.'
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Extract from ‘The Significant Other’. A documentary account Victor Hugo Pena’s life as a domestique on the team of Lance Armstrong. He came to Europe from Colombia to be a pro cyclist.
‘When I first came to Europe I saw people colored their hair and wore earrings. But when I colored my hair and had my ear pierced , my Directeur Sportif at Vitalicio, Javier Minguez, told me, ‘If you want to fix your hair like a queer, go play soccer. Cycling is for men. You go through misery. You ride so hard you dribble, you **** yourself, you fall on your face and bleed, but you carry on. In cycling you earn your money going through hell. Why don’t to learn to play football where you kick a ball around for an hour and a half a day and earn millions…….’
"When i first came to Europe, there were moments in which i considered going back to Colombia to carry on cycling, but also to go to university and have the life that i did not have as a kid because i was training instead of going out with my friends. Cycling closes your eyes and your social circle. You live in hotel rooms, like a clown in a mobile circus: and although you're always traveling, you never meet anyone, you can't visit anyone. It even takes your taste for travel away; when the season finishes, you don't want to to on holiday because you've been away all year. I remember in 1996, I realized I didn't have any female friends. I didn't know a single woman! I'd lost contact with the girls I knew because I was always away. One day I said to myself, 'I'm alone. Cycling has made me alone.' I couldn't even eat an ice cream alone in the park because it's not part of my diet. I went to the cinema alone, and channeled the solitude into cycling. Every time I won a stage or a time trial, I thought, 'This is my reward.'
used .01cent http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0753818744/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1338666134&sr=8-1&condition=used
Extract from ‘The Significant Other’. A documentary account Victor Hugo Pena’s life as a domestique on the team of Lance Armstrong. He came to Europe from Colombia to be a pro cyclist.