| Re: Painted Cyclist Pictures + Bike Equipment woes
Claire Petersky <cpetersky@mousepotato.com> wrote:
> "Stephen Harding" <harding@cs.umass.edu> wrote in message
> news:42120be4$1@news-1.oit.umass.edu...
>> "Dane Jackson" <dane@unseen.edu> wrote in message
>
>> You must have tractor legs!!
>
> Dane indeed has strong legs. I remember one time I was coming down Eastgate
> Way one morning, and saw him power around the intersection with Richard's
> Road and then fly up the hill that for me is a total slog. If only I had
> such legs.
*blushes*
Well gosh.
I suppose that's one of the advantages of previously being very
overweight but still fairly active even then. I lost all the weight
but kept most of my leg muscle mass. So I mainly just had to build
up some decent base miles and lose the weight and I became reasonably
speedy.
Now I'm curious how most people's improvement curve worked for their
first year or two of cycling. I did a fast double century (STP) almost
precisely at my one year cycling anniversary.
--
Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g
"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being
true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the
mark of a fake messiah. The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What
are you doing? Think about these once in awhile and watch your answers
change." -- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul
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