Today's "Vision Quest" race the train training moment

I wrestled in high school in the late 80's, so the movie "Vision Quest" is big on my list of motivational flicks. There are a few great clips in that movie of Louden Swaine training really hard to beat the animal Brian Shute. It gets me going every time I think about it!

Anyway, one clip that I can't find on YouTube has Swain riding bike really hard in the early morning with a train next to the road, and he's training so hard he's keeping pace with the train. AWESOME, right!?!?

In typical fashion...."so, there I was" during this afternoon's bike ride, cruising down the little hill that takes me parrellel to the railroad tracks. A train blows its whistle and scares the crap out of me, and then blows it again and again because it's passing a cross with the road. I look over as the road become parrellel with the train, and the engine is even with me. GAME ON, BABY!!! I beat the hell out of those pedals for about thirty seconds while I lived in the moment, the moment of the "Vision Quest" bike vs train training scene. Then I rounded another turn in the road and a strong wind smacked me in the face, and I burned out in typical old-man-reliving-his-youth fashion.

BUT THAT 30 SECONDS WAS AWESOME!