My wife often accuses me of being an optimist, but I think I’ve gone over the limit with this one. I just found out this morning that there exists something called the UCI World Cycling Tour – a series of amateur races around the world where riders can fight for a place in the UWCT Final (formerly the Masters World Road Championships), after which the winner will have the honor of wearing his or her very own rainbow jersey, like this guy…only without the millions in sponsorship money, I imagine…

My mission for 2013, if I should choose to accept it, would be to just qualify for the Final, but here’s the tricky part: in order to qualify you need to finish in the top 25% of your age category in one of the qualifying races. The glass-half-full in me says this is possible, since I just broke that magic number in my last race. Reality, however, will probably have something entirely different to inform me, as I imagine that the quality of riders will be a tad higher than that local race earlier this month. But hey, what are optimists for if they can’t dream impossible dreams!