A cyclist you all should know: Tommy Godwin

For all the HTFU rhetoric, burning out, hitting the wall, recovery rides, and all the advances we've made in sports nutrition, sports physiology and training, road bike design and construction - all to help make us go faster longer, Tommy Godwin rode 205 miles a day for a whole year. That's 75,065 miles. In 1939. On a steel-framed, four-speed bike.

If that's not motivation enough when you're down in the dumps, I don't know what is. And tomorrow happens to be the first anniversary of his death, at age 91.