Scott Martin

We all have unattainable lifetime cycling goals: visit France to watch the Tour (can't afford it); complete a double century (in one day?); win a race (yeah, right); ride with Lance ("two-wheeled stalking," my probation officer called it); get body fat below 10% (see: win a race).

Enough. Time to lower the bar. Here's my new list of achievable bicycling objectives (aka No Cyclist Left Behind) :

• Break a collarbone. Not a goal to pursue, but something to embrace when it happens - except you won't be embracing anything till your clavicle mends. Still, it's hard to call yourself a cyclist unless you've suffered our sport's most common injury. Relax: According to my doc, typical collarbone breaks heal stronger than before. Which is more than you can say for your bike.

• Overtrain. This takes discipline, dedication, courage and stupidity, so I'm one-quarter of the way there. How cool to be able to tell your ride partners, "Sorry, can't join you today - my directeur sportif says I'm overtrained." Sounds so much better than : "Sorry, can't join you today -- my cherie amour says I'm cleaning the bathroom."

• Put your foot down. I'm not talking about refusing to scrub the toilet. The goal here is always to click out of your pedal before falling to the ground in front of a school bus full of merciless 5th graders and that cute cyclist you've been trying to impress for the last three miles. And don't tell me I should just learn to do a trackstand, Mr. Five Percent Body Fat.

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