The Route That Never Changed
4 min read · Anonymous · Premium
It started, like all of it does, with something I was proud of.
Daniel decided at thirty-eight that he was going to ride a century. A hundred miles in a single day, for charity, in the fall. I thought it was wonderful. After years of him sinking into the couch every weekend, here he was buying clip-in shoes and a carbon frame and a little black GPS computer that bolted to his handlebars and beeped when his heart rate climbed. He talked about cadence at dinner. He drank smoothies the color of pond water. I bought him a reflective vest for his birthday and felt like a good wife.
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