Damn riding is GREAT!

[Bill C]

Well folks the raging total on the year is 19.76 miles. If you've had
a long time when you couldn't ride you know how I felt today. I've got
the ugliest seat I've ever seen, but it really protected my back, the
knee was fine. I had no legs, but nothing hurt until an hour in, and
that's scheduled for repair soon.
It's just amazing how good riding feels and just how much damn fun it
is. Can't wait to get back to finishing last at the Wells Ave training
crit series. Hell I might even finish next to last sometime!
Bill C

[John Forrest Tomlinson]

On 19 Apr 2007 14:47:20 -0700, Bill C > wrote:

>Well folks the raging total on the year is 19.76 miles. If you've had
>a long time when you couldn't ride you know how I felt today. I've got
>the ugliest seat I've ever seen, but it really protected my back, the
>knee was fine. I had no legs, but nothing hurt until an hour in, and
>that's scheduled for repair soon.
> It's just amazing how good riding feels and just how much damn fun it
>is. Can't wait to get back to finishing last at the Wells Ave training
>crit series. Hell I might even finish next to last sometime!

Yay!
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JT
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[Bob Schwartz]

Bill C wrote:
> Hell I might even finish next to last sometime!

Just be sure to keep up on your 'orange juice'.
And be sure to ride with panache.

Bob Schwartz

[Bill C]

On Apr 19, 8:24 pm, Bob Schwartz >
wrote:
> Bill C wrote:
> > Hell I might even finish next to last sometime!
>
> Just be sure to keep up on your 'orange juice'.
> And be sure to ride with panache.
>
> Bob Schwartz

Well the OJ is Soma, and the Panache is Oxycodone, think I'll pass a
drug test? I can really see why PotBelge would work. In my case really
ugly equipment along with drugs let me train but anything that cuts
the massive pain any real racer lives with in any race they are
working to win would be huge.
There's no contact in cycling for the most part so people have NO
idea how brutally painful our sport is and for large periods of time.
I've done baseball, basketball, football, powerlifting, bodybuilding,
and cycling and the only two that are close are bodybuilding, without
'roids, and cycling. Cyclists suffer more pain over longer periods of
time than anyone, in any other sport that I can come up with.
I suck at this, but the lactic acid thing is common to what I've been
good at, and the level of pain in both is brutal, but in cycling you
have to go another 100km after you are dieing to have any chance.
Bill C

[Michael Press]

In article
. com>,
Bill C > wrote:

> On Apr 19, 8:24 pm, Bob Schwartz >
> wrote:
> > Bill C wrote:
> > > Hell I might even finish next to last sometime!
> >
> > Just be sure to keep up on your 'orange juice'.
> > And be sure to ride with panache.
> >
> > Bob Schwartz
>
> Well the OJ is Soma, and the Panache is Oxycodone, think I'll pass a
> drug test?

Yeah, and lap it too. You are sooo busted.

--
Michael Press

[[email protected]]

On Apr 19, 5:47 pm, Bill C > wrote:
> On Apr 19, 8:24 pm, Bob Schwartz > wrote:
>
> > Bill C wrote:
> > > Hell I might even finish next to last sometime!
>
> > Just be sure to keep up on your 'orange juice'.
> > And be sure to ride with panache.
>
> Well the OJ is Soma, and the Panache is Oxycodone, think I'll pass a
> drug test? I can really see why PotBelge would work.

Enjoy testing positive for endorphins.

Ben

[Bill C]

On Apr 20, 4:25 am, " >
wrote:
> On Apr 19, 5:47 pm, Bill C > wrote:
>
> > On Apr 19, 8:24 pm, Bob Schwartz > wrote:
>
> > > Bill C wrote:
> > > > Hell I might even finish next to last sometime!
>
> > > Just be sure to keep up on your 'orange juice'.
> > > And be sure to ride with panache.
>
> > Well the OJ is Soma, and the Panache is Oxycodone, think I'll pass a
> > drug test? I can really see why PotBelge would work.
>
> Enjoy testing positive for endorphins.
>
> Ben

Thanks all. It's just amazing to discover how much damn fun this is
again. Sometimes I think we all get lost in the training schedule,
focusing in on power or heartrate and time and what we NEED to
accomplish this ride. I know I did that. Awful glad not to be doing
that on warm, sunny, spring days when it's just me, the bike, back
roads, a kid, and a beautiful day out.
Time to go enjoy it.
Bill C

[Curtis L. Russell]

On 20 Apr 2007 05:04:32 -0700, Bill C > wrote:

>Thanks all. It's just amazing to discover how much damn fun this is
>again. Sometimes I think we all get lost in the training schedule,
>focusing in on power or heartrate and time and what we NEED to
>accomplish this ride.

Well, some of us just ride fast. Sort of.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

[HankB]

On Apr 19, 4:47 pm, Bill C > wrote:
> Well folks the raging total on the year is 19.76 miles. If you've had
> a long time when you couldn't ride you know how I felt today.

I feel your joy. Broke my leg last year and spent about 6 weeks on my
back with my leg elevated. I found I could ride (putz around the
neighborhood) without pain before I could walk w/out crutches. The
feeling of liberation - that I could cover all that ground w/out
hobbling along - was incredible.

Stop lights were a little tough. And when I got home I found my wife
had closed the garage door, so I wound up trapped, leaning agsinst the
car well out of reach of my crutches. <sigh>

But it was great to get out.

<back on topic>
Some kids wanted to race me. I told them, much to their surprise that
I was lame. When I pointed to the brace on my ankle, they said "Oh,
*that* lame." ;)

Good luck with your recovery.

-hank

[Mike Jacoubowsky]

> Well folks the raging total on the year is 19.76 miles. If you've had
> a long time when you couldn't ride you know how I felt today. I've got
> the ugliest seat I've ever seen, but it really protected my back, the
> knee was fine. I had no legs, but nothing hurt until an hour in, and
> that's scheduled for repair soon.

You don't need legs to ride. Just a sense of adventure. There's a whole
world of people who enjoy being out on a bike, never breaking a sweat, never
having their heart rate go above 120. It's *usually* not my world, but
sometimes, when I'm riding with my 14 year old, I get a glimpse of that
world. And it's not such a bad place to be.

> It's just amazing how good riding feels and just how much damn fun it
> is. Can't wait to get back to finishing last at the Wells Ave training
> crit series. Hell I might even finish next to last sometime!
> Bill C

It's really great, even inspirational, hearing that. Sometimes, as I get
older, I wonder if my best days are far behind me. But it all depends upon
how you measure those days, and if I ever see my way to retirement, it could
very well be that my best days ever on a bike are yet ahead of me. They
might be at an average speed of 12 mph instead of 17, but they might *not*
have to be scheduled in. Just go out and ride when I'd like to ride. Where
I'd like to go. At whatever speed my body will let me.

Welcome back.

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

[Ryan Cousineau]

In article om>,
" > wrote:

> On Apr 19, 5:47 pm, Bill C > wrote:
> > On Apr 19, 8:24 pm, Bob Schwartz > wrote:
> >
> > > Bill C wrote:
> > > > Hell I might even finish next to last sometime!
> >
> > > Just be sure to keep up on your 'orange juice'.
> > > And be sure to ride with panache.
> >
> > Well the OJ is Soma, and the Panache is Oxycodone, think I'll pass a
> > drug test? I can really see why PotBelge would work.
>
> Enjoy testing positive for endorphins.
>
> Ben

Use alcohol as a masking agent.

Feel a kenacort recommendation coming on,

Starting to get happy feelings when I do bike mechanics. Am I activating
my internal crystal-meth-head receptors?

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

[Tom Kunich]

"Mike Jacoubowsky" > wrote in message
et...
>
> It's really great, even inspirational, hearing that. Sometimes, as I get
> older, I wonder if my best days are far behind me. But it all depends upon
> how you measure those days, and if I ever see my way to retirement, it
> could very well be that my best days ever on a bike are yet ahead of me.
> They might be at an average speed of 12 mph instead of 17, but they might
> *not* have to be scheduled in. Just go out and ride when I'd like to ride.
> Where I'd like to go. At whatever speed my body will let me.

Geez Mike, you were born too old..... I went from here to Santa Barbara with
three other guys last summer and they were all over 65 and one was 76. We
beat the 24 year olds into the campground every day. And we weren't even
riding hard since one of us had knee problems, another wouldn't admit he was
getting really tired and I had two days of traveler's stomach.