Guess who is this future world champion?
Even future Tour winners need stabilisers to start off with.
(By the way Me on my first bike a tricycle )
Interview from the Guardian:
…Wiggins’s greatest regret is reserved for his family. Ask him if he enjoyed the Tour and he’ll tell you about the months away training, the monastic lifestyle in the mountains, the 7,000 calories he consumes a day with a diet of pasta, omelettes and croissants, oat and honey energy bars, the 8,000 calories he burns daily, the self-imposed chocolate and alcohol ban, the five to seven hours on a bike every day and the 100,000 metres he’ll climb in the lead-up to competition. He usually misses his children’s birthdays because he is away training and says when his family come out to see him he feels as if he is receiving a prison visit. Yes, he enjoyed the victory, but that’s different from enjoying the race.
Now there’s a new source of guilt. Even last year, he says, he could go out largely unbothered, but not any more. “They ask your wife to take the photo, which is a bit rude. And after a while that becomes tiresome, especially when you’re having a pizza with your children, or you have to have a photo with somebody else’s kids while yours stand to the side.” Don’t get him wrong, the public’s reaction has been astonishing, but that doesn’t make it easier to cope with. “It’s quite humbling that sport can do this to a nation, but there comes a point when I’ve got to start getting on with my life. It would be hard to live my life as it is for ever….” – Wiggins interview tour.
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