![time-trial_heads_e1 time-trial_heads_e1](http://blog.marklamster.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/time-trial_heads_e1.jpg)
Well, it's the latter, obviously, and from an amazing series of Tour de France photographs by Brent Humphreys. But it does indicate the rather short visual distance between agony and ecstasy. A more extreme example: Sex or Death?
![oprichtingkruis1 oprichtingkruis1](http://blog.marklamster.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/oprichtingkruis1.jpg)
And now a bit wider:
![oprichtingkruis oprichtingkruis](http://blog.marklamster.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/oprichtingkruis.jpg)