Giving Thanks

Not sure if any of you receive the RoadBikeRider newsletter every week or not. (If you don't, click on the link to the right every Thursday for the newest edition.)

I really like Scott Martin's "articles" every week. They are usually pretty comical but this one is a bit more on the serious side. I'm copying and pasting his posting below for everyone to read. You might be like me and be thankful for these same things. But if there are other things you are thankful for, cycling related of course, please tell us by commenting.

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Dana


Scott's Spin:

Thanks a Lot

Here in America we're celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow. That's when you eat marshmallow-filled Jell-O salad, decorate your house in orange and brown, and figure out how to do a 2-hour ride when you should be home hanging the relatives. I mean, hanging with the relatives.

And it's a time for giving thanks. So it seems like an appropriate moment to do that for something really important -- besides the abundance of marshmallows and the theft of a continent from Pocahontas.

I'm talking, naturally, about our sport. Here's my list of cycling things to be thankful for:

• I'm thankful to be healthy enough to ride.
  

• I'm thankful that I've found a sport I can do the rest of my life.
  

• I'm thankful that my life could be longer because I ride.
  

• I'm thankful for all the great friends I've made through cycling.
  

• I'm thankful for all the wonderful places my bike has taken me.
  

• I'm thankful that my sport requires me to buy so many cool toys.
  

• I'm thankful that cycling happens to be good for the planet.
  

• I'm thankful for all you cool RoadBikeRider readers.
  

• I'm thankful for surviving another year of distracted drivers, potholed streets and clueless pedestrians.
  

• I'm thankful that I can eat as much as I want on Thanksgiving, knowing that I'll ride it off soon enough.
  

• I'm thankful for all the cycling advocates who fight for our rights.
  

• I'm thankful for the small amount of mechanical aptitude cycling has forced me to acquire.
  

• I'm thankful for the flat tire I'm bound to have tomorrow, which will turn my 2-hour ride into a 3-hour escape and get me home just in time for turkey.