To wear yellow or not to wear yellow

                                                                                                           At the Tour de France today, I watched intently to see if George Hincapie would exert the required effort to hold onto the yellow jersey, or whether he felt the longer race was more important. To my delight (and using good racing strategy), he forsook the short term reward to concentrate on the long term prize.

That is how life is ………..yet, many of us exert all of our efforts on the short term win, rather than the long term prize. Why is that? We know life is a long race, yet we always use huge bursts of energy and focus on short term things…. What do you think?

As an aside, I am feeling less confident about Floyd Landis and Levi Leipheimer (maybe its early and I am expecting too much in the first two stages) – can either of these guys win?