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| Biography:
Greg Cook |
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Current status:
Greg will turn 40 in 2008 and has lived and worked in Folsom since 2000. He has been married to the hot chick he met in a hot tub in Jackson Hole, WY since 1995
and has 2 boys (ages 4 and 7 in 2008).
His cycling potential is never truly met due to a serious skiing addiction that
plays havoc on winter training.
History:
1986 – First fell in love with cycling when realized that an all out 20 mile ride
followed by slamming a beer will result in a cheap buzz. This training regimen resulted
in adequate fitness level to finish in the pack in a few local crits.
1987-1993 – NMSU Water Polo team
1996 – Took up mountain biking 2000 – First sprint distance triathlon—finished mid-pack
2003 – Purchased road bike as training tool for mountain biking
2003 and 2004 – Alcatraz to SF Swim
2003-2005 – Clydesdale triathlete (several podium finishes)
2006 – Death Ride – 5 passes in 9 hours ride time, 10 hours total
2006-2007 – Continued racing triathlons and xterras. Lost weight riding with Cycle
Folsom and started competing with the small guys. Small guys are fast, didn’t land
on the podium again until summer 2007.
2008 – Broken Collar Bone 1/3/08 Long Term
Ambitions:
Get faster.
Maintain fitness level that allows spontaneously competing in races without planning
my life around any particular event.
Learn to run.
Favorite Quotes/speeches:
"Truth is you can go faster. The truth hurts."
And (from Theodore Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" speech when he addressed the Sorbonne
in Paris in 1910):
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs
to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat
and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because
there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to
do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself
in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that
his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory
nor defeat."
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