Recognize the long-hair, hippie peace freak in this photo?
Look closer. That’s our own Good Will Hardin, happy-go-lucky part-time shop employee, full-time student at Lees McRae and most-of-the-time bike racer guy.
This particular snap was taken via iPhone at something called the ToAD – the Tour of America’s Dairyland bike race series in …. Wisconsin, where he won Tuesday a stage in scenic Janesville (population 64,300 – people. In cows, that’s 110,000) in the Janesville Grand Prix.
He’s competing in Cat 2/3; we’re not quite sure exactly what that means other than he’s much, much, much faster than we are.
You can tell that he won by the smile on his face – if only he’d move that Farrah Fawcett hair – and the fact that he’s on the top step of the podium.
(Young Marcel Gutierrez is competing hard, too. But was unlucky with a crash in Janesville. Not that crashing is ever lucky. You know what we mean. Marcel is the son of Bert, the local Winston-Salem legend-in-his-own-mind who is more widely known by his Twitter handle: Twigs of Fire.)
Good Will, while he may stink at math, is plenty good at bikes. Obviously. But he’s also a swell young man. If you’ve shopped with us on summer weekends, chances are you’ve seen his youthful countenance. He's super helpful and very paitent
His diet may be a tad strange – doughnuts, bad beer and the occasional slab of cold leftover cheese pizza. But absolutely no meat — and that hair is a bit much for a kid who’s eyeing officer candidate school in the U.S. Army post-graduation. (Junior, some DI is going to LOVE shearing that mop. You still have time to consider the Navy. They got better gear and a snazzier dress uniform. And the Army’s going to make you sleep in the mud with a rifle. Guaranteed. But we digress.)
Seriously, we’re happy to have Young Will and just as pleased as punch to see his win. Nicely done, young man. Nicely done. ...
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