It’s not about the bike

Office anthropology™ Go Premium The JC puts on his pith-helmet, grabs his butterfly net and a rucksack full of marmalade sandwiches, and heads into the concrete jungleIndex: Click ᐅ to expand: Work anthropology Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Requests? Insults? We’d love to 📧 hear from you. Sign up for our newsletter.

Having been thoroughly traumatised by compulsory inter-house cross-countries in his youth — best ever placing: sixth-last — the JC has always loathed races of any kind, resented those who are good at them, and revelled at any schadenfreude going should the winners of the world come a-cropper. Exercise is important, but it is something one should do alone, anonymously, under cover of darkness if possible, and in disguise if not.

So it is somewhat galling to be repeating Lance Armstrong’s words, but here goes:

It’s not about the bike.