Lap Year

Lap Year

n.
the age at which you become older than your parents were when you were born, which signals that your stage of the race has already begun, having spent years coasting in their slipstream as they tackled the mountain stages of life, leaving you strong, energetic, and deeply mortified by their loud yellow jerseys.

From lap, one full circuit around a course + gap year, a regenerative break between adjacent stages of life. In the Tour de France, the cyclist with the lowest time receives a ceremonial yellow jersey and the right to start the next stage.

Enterhood

Halfwise

Midsummer

Anticious

Walloway

Austice

Rasque

Ecury

Aftersome

Keta

Yeorie

Appriesse

Aulasy

Emorries

Echthesia

Epistrix

Cullaways

Backmasking

Aulasy

Licotic

Wenbane

Midsummer

Bye-Over

The Whipgraft Delusion

Solla, Solla, Solla

Knellish

Fardle-Din