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It was an identifiable psychographic (broadsheet readers, Waitrose shoppers) and a reductive caricature brimming with condescension (we were vain, we were hopeless, we should just grow up already and get a\u00a0BMW). Not all of that is untrue. -Tom Vanderbilt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1843magazine.com\/features\/the-long-and-winding-road\">The Long and Winding Road<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t clocked a century (100 miles) or even a half-century on a bike, but I&#8217;ve experienced running ten miles during a cross-country training session twenty one years ago. I still remember it. Normally a busy brain, my mind slowly focused on the task a hand: struggling to keep myself upright\u00a0as lactic acid starts to flow into my muscles on the run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things seemed to be much more noticeable when I rode. 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