Gold
“The morning of the race was cloudless and chilly. For the first time since moving to the tower, Zoe did her warm-up on the roof deck, five hundred feet above the rush-hour traffic, in the direct lightspeed blast of the sunrise, with the Blade Runner theme in her earphones. Sometimes life was okay. It was impossible not to be lifted by the elevation.
She had a spinning bike up on the roof, pushed up against the railings on the east side, and she took the cover off it now and clipped into the ped...als, warming up as the sun climbed higher. As her heart rate rose steadily and smoothly up into the 130s, a simple happiness trembled in her: at the atomizing brightness of the light, at the barely contained potential in her muscles, at the undertones of approaching summer in the cold clean breeze blowing in off the Pennines. As her heart rate hit 150, she felt as if she could unclip from the pedals, climb over these rails quite unfussily, and just fly. It didn’t feel as if she weighed nearly enough to get hurt.MoreLess
She had a spinning bike up on the roof, pushed up against the railings on the east side, and she took the cover off it now and clipped into the ped...als, warming up as the sun climbed higher. As her heart rate rose steadily and smoothly up into the 130s, a simple happiness trembled in her: at the atomizing brightness of the light, at the barely contained potential in her muscles, at the undertones of approaching summer in the cold clean breeze blowing in off the Pennines. As her heart rate hit 150, she felt as if she could unclip from the pedals, climb over these rails quite unfussily, and just fly. It didn’t feel as if she weighed nearly enough to get hurt.MoreLess
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