| Re: Riding with courage
S o r n i <sorni@bite-me.san.rr.com> wrote:
>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?!?
If your buddies are standing around with beers in their
hands waiting for you to select the "fluff" cycle...
>> 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.
I meant climbing as in positionwise in the pack, not slope.
>> 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.
Didn't read the whole thread.
--Blair
"Didn't want to."
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