| Re: Riding with courage
Blair P. Houghton wrote:
> Badger_South <Badger@South.net> wrote:
>> When the TdF commentators say the yellow jersey "used his courage to
>> get back up to the back of the pack" does that have meaning to you?
>
> Courage is doing something you know you don't want to do.
I'm brave to do a load of laundry?!?
> Overcoming pain is a form of courage. Risking a crash is, too.
>
> Climbing through a pack is more dangerous and more
> difficult than just sitting back there and taking what
> you're left.
It's not really /dangerous/ on a climb, but harder yes.
> It's hardly crawling up the sands of Omaha Beach on D-Day,
> but it's in that general direction, semantically.
Issue settled previously in thread.
Bill "bedtime" S.
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