| Re: Riding with courage
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:55:37 -0400, Rick Onanian <spamsink@cox.net>
wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:09:43 -0400, Badger_South <Badger@South.net>
>wrote:
>>I'm beginning to sense a developing ability to continue even when I
>>should be dropping, and that seems a little bit 'mental' ability. It
>>takes courage to ride into the place that you think might be 'beyond
>>your ability', but wondering if there is some kind of shared consensus
>>of what that means in the biking lexicon.
>
>I've never needed courage to ride too hard. Instead, it's taken
>courage to drop the "I gotta go fast" attitude in order to pace
>myself better. Once I stopped being afraid of going slow, my average
>speed went up, as well as my distance. Most importantly, my fun
>increased by a whole lot.
Well, Rick, I thought about that, you know, the courage to drop the "I
gotta go fast" attitude.
That lasted about a day, though, b/c my riding partner just got an
actual bike (Trek) today to replace his 20 y.o. 33lb Ross.
Today it was much harder for the older, smarter brother (me), to keep
ahead of the young whippersnapper brother (him). In fact just this
afternoon, he started to try and pass me on a hill. The nerve.
So looks like that's it for the short-lived change of philosophy. ;-{
-B
"Be careful what you wish for he said, as he loaded the new Trek in
the truck, a gleam in his one good eye"
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