Making It Count

Though I’ve repeatedly tried to make it so, my duties in the Midwestern cycling empire of our owners, Jay and Kent, encompass more than just writing this column.

During the winter, I can play pretend pretty well — there’s not much going on in the shops, so I can say witty things online and keep myself entertained. But when summer returns (finally!), things start to pick up a bit. And instead of being “that writer,” I have to be “that shop manager/bike fitter/goodwill ambassador/phone answerer.”

On top of that, I still need to function as a reasonably average bike racer.  If it was just the writing thing, no problem. But it’s the writing thing, the being a parent and husband thing and the running around a bike shop thing. And until you’ve spent a few days on your feet — on concrete floors — and then tried to do a 60-some mile road race in the wind of an Iowa spring … oof.

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