Yesterday I was out on a loooong ride, 205 hilly km’s to be exact.  Anyway, since I stopped using my I-pod while training(I get in a better zone…mentally, not HR HR zone:) I find that I think about ALL KINDS of things.  Well yesterday, at a point at around the 5:30 mark of the ride I passed a spot that triggered this post.

 I ask everyone “Why did you choose Timex?”  Now, I have a lot of reasons that I love this team, but this reason surpasses them all.  In 2003 or 4 I was out training on the IMWI bike course and saw a triathlete riding up the road.  But this wasn’t just any triathlete.  This triathlete had a car following behind them.  First thought, “Lance?”  Second, “I have to meet this person!!” 

 So I pushed a little harder and closed the gap, I passed the car and was hoping to see Johan driving and Lance riding.  To my suprise it was a VERY attractive younger woman(still older than I was) and a rider that resembled Lance, but he wasn’t on a Trek at the time. 

Anyway, I rode up the rider and started talking.  I asked all kinds of questions, “What do you do?”  “Where are you from?”  ”Who is that in the car?”  “Does she have a friend?”  Well, here are the answers that I got from the rider.  “I am a CEO or a company.  I am from Mexico City.  That is my girlfriend!”  There was no talk of a friend, :(  

The rider’s name, you ask?  Non-other than our very own Luis Alvarez! His girlfriend was driving sag-wagon around the entire IMWI course, now THAT is LOVE.  ARe you two still together Luis?

I thought WOW, I need to be like this guy someday.  So after finding out that he was on Team Timex, I thought the best way to find out everything I could about Luis and his ability to get women to follow him around on the bike, would be to get on the team with him.  After two years of missing the boat, I finally made the cut this year.

So to answer the question at the beginning of the post; Luis Alvarez is the reason that I am on the team today! Thanks Luis, you are a stud!

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