New man

Riding up and over Centinela

I’m the fastest thing on wheels

Not Ivan Basso, or Michael Rasmussen

or Ivan Therrien or Eric Colton

can beat me.

Not with

two new new wheels

and one new chain

I’m a new man.

Sunlight glinting off dark arm hair

long flat shins pushing and pulling

I’m not hard to see.

Trial of Miles: Survivor.

And I’m saving it all up

for a run.

Wilson Kipketer sets the first of his two world records at the greatest distance, in the greatest sport in the world: