I'm a 23 y/o male living in Florida - Fort Walton Beach to be exact.
I'm in the Air Force, currently working as a surgical technician. It's a good job, but I am going to try my hand at cross training into loadmaster, I want to travel more, and fly! Next month will mark my first year here. I'm a military brat, and have lived all over, most notably Turkey, England, and The Netherlands, and The Netherlands is where I miss the most. Can't wait to go back!
Onto my cycling story: It was July 2007 - not long ago - I happened to come across versus, and saw the Tour De France was on. Normally I didn't care for cycling - but I watched it to see the European countryside. Little did I know at the time that it would take me over, and suck me into the greatness of the sport. I started watching it when the commentators were talking about Vinikourov's story. How he had 60 stitches and was riding with so much heart. That really inspired me (how you would count him out, and then all of a sudden out of nowhere there he was!). Then he went on to win the TT, which seemed incredible. The next race really didn't go well for him, and then to come back and win the next stage - insane right? Then the blood doping. That kind of sucked, but oh well the race went on and at that point it didn't matter what happened I just wanted to watch the cycling, teamwork, sportsmanship, and tactics they used.
The tour ended, I wanted a bicycle.
August rolled around, and not wanting to go out and buy an expensive bike right off the bat, I looked on ebay. I got a 1988 Schwinn Ontare. I don't know much about bikes, but I knew roughly what size to get, and this was the only one that was a decent price I was willing to pay - long story short, I got it and love it.
Ok, anyway that's my story, I've been on the forums since the tour, but I'm not much of a poster. Love this site though, and figured I'd finally do the introduction thing.