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Monday, July 21, 2003

Twofer

This weekend I won my second gold medal of this year's Georgia Games, this time in the mountain biking catagory. It's funny how things work out at times. I got my mountain bike as a training alternative when the weather was too cold for a road ride or I needed some variety in the off-season. From that, things progressed to deciding the use the GAP series races as training races due to a lack of local training races and an inability to get to the Thursday Night Hammer Rides in Griffin. On my goals sheet, I listed finishing top ten in the series standings as a goal. After the first race, where I finished 8th, that looked to be a reasonable goal. Since then I've not finished out of the top five (excluding the one DNF at Windridge) and I've won the last two races in the series. I'm now the gold medal winner and the series leader after seven races.

Holding the medal in my hand was really cool and really humbling at the same time. I have never won an athletic award. Ever. Certainly not a championship. To be holding a Georgia Games Championship gold medal won in a mountain biking race was about as unlikely a thing that I could have imagined back in December when I started this year's training. I was planning to go for the gold in the Time Trial but I never figured I'd be a good enough rider technically to win on the dirt.

I've hung the medal on the wall in our TV/Bible Study room next to a verse my wife has painted on the wall. It's from Habbakuk 1:5. It reads, "Get ready to be amazed, for I will do such things that you would not believe, even if you were told!" The medal hangs like an exclamation mark for all to see and believe.

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