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.

Blinkback

Vellichor

Affogatia

Kerisl

Archimony

Nowlings

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

Heart Of Aces

Pithered

Amentalio

Keyframe

Anchorage

Symptomania

Leidenfreude

Querinous

Fellchaser

Zielschmerz

Licotic

Watashiato

Apolytus

Burn Upon Reentry