Training to a Video of the Col de Peyresourde

Here's another biking poem. I think I've written before about using a video computer trainer. Hope this one is different enough to warrant a separate poem.

        Training to a Video of the Col de Peyresourde

          

            It’s just pretend and not the Pyrenees.

            The spectators are waving at the camera crew

            ten years ago and not my unseen present self.

            I know the smiling girls are mostly married now –

            and the old men may be dead,

            but I still feel encouraged, accompanied

            as I pedal past their greetings toward whatever

            awaits me, prerecorded or unplanned,

            beyond some near or distant peak.