Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.

I have always been an avid bike rider. Even before I became an avid bike rider, I was an avid bike stealer when I was a kid. I am very educated on bikes.

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

My sophomore year I placed 2nd, and my junior and senior year - I got smart and piled up enough points between myself and second place where I didn't have to run the mile.