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Death of the alpha

Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 28/01/22 18:00

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In 2008 I rode my first proper sportive on a bike around Highland Perthshire in what was known as the Etape Caledonia.

It was 80 miles or something like that of closed roads with 5,000 cyclists and it was amazing and like something I’d never seen before.

I went with a group of friends, my mates from Scotland, and I finished somewhere around last in that group.

It took me two further attempts to be first in that group because it was essential that I was the alpha.

Three years later I was riding in the last 10 miles of that race with one of the group members left behind me and I cycled away from him with everything that I had in order to be the first one home out of our batch.

And then I did triathlons and I wanted to be the best out of the people I knew at that and then I started riding my bike and I tried (and miserably failed) to be the best at that.

That’s because I was the alpha, that’s because I was the ‘A personality’, that’s because I was, well what I was.

I was the same at work, I was the boss, and it all came through me.

If I ride the Etape Caledonia ever again, it will never be to race but to drink in the beautiful and wonderful and brutal scenery that this ride runs through.

If I do the Outlaw now it’s as a team to give me a chance to ride my bike in an event where I’m never going to score or be any good but to just experience the camaraderie of things together.

When I return to work it’s as a mentor and an advisor, it’s time for someone else to be the alpha.

 

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