Linda Elgart:  

Life Who would have thought that I'd be a bicycle racer? After going to art school for undergrad (Tyler) and grad Southern Illinois), I turned out to be unmarketable as far as art was concerned. At SIU, one of the first things I did was to meet John, and the next thing I did was start training for bike racing. John and I stayed together, both unmarketable academics, and after a stint as caretakers on an estate outside of Phila., we moved to California to go into the bicycle business. Now, 30 years later, we live in an old neighborhood in Sacramento, are sales reps in the cycling industry, concentrating on custom clothing for teams (there's the art connection), and we're still racing bikes. I've won nationals in my age group 6 times now. the photo shows me cyclocrossing. It's kind of like bicycle steeplechase, and it's my latest passion. Workplace I lived like a starving student until I was 40. After college, I went to grad school, and found I was unmarketable as a college art professor, though I did get a one person show at The College of William and Mary, where I was in the final three to get a job...Expand for more