They say you should never meet your idols. That you will be sorely dissapointed and that the illusion will be burst.
I am currently floating in bliss!
I have gone one step further than meeting my idol. I have taken on a new job role that sees me in the heart of something I am most emotional and passionate about.
Cycling.
My connection with the sport and forms of transport wind even closer together. They are an intricate mess of good and evil. Passion and Loss. A Ying and a Yang. Yet ultimately they are what you can name that defines my being.
I stepped through the door of my new head office for the first time. I was being given a company induction and on the walls of the building was masses of paraphernalia that highlighted the successes of the organisation. I walked into the building and my memories were stirred, my emotions attached to those memories were also rekindled as I stood looking at the bikes and jerseys of my idols. I had read so much about these people and about the organisation, the infrastructure, the cutting edge training and shift in mentality to marginal gains and here I was 8 years on after my life changing event ( Cycling related) amongst the gods. One of them.
I have seen amongst the beating heart of the machine and I will become a small cog in the bigger gears of change. I am excited for my journey ahead. I could not have imagined 8 years ago I would be stepping into the belly of the beast and yet here we are. I may not be the athlete I once hoped to be but I am apart of creating them. That is enough for me in my lifetime.
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