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When do you know it's over?
The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and
it's time to move on to other pursuits. I have some personal clues, but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to this question. Only serious replies, and if there is someone out there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience would be helpful. |
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When do you know it's over?
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, Crescentius Vespasianus wrote: The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and it's time to move on to other pursuits. I have some personal clues, but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to this question. Only serious replies, and if there is someone out there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience would be helpful. Well, I realized that racing was over for me when I figured out that the only time I was enjoying riding a bike was in the fall after the end of the racing season. I had come to hate riding my bike over the years I raced, because every ride was spoiled by having to train. I stopped racing and have been loving cycling ever since. In terms of it being "over" in cycling as in riding a bike at all, I can't even grok what that means. I've been riding bikes for 40 years and a bike nut for 30+ years. I think it'll be over when I'm dead. |
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When do you know it's over?
try Prozac
everyone in sunny Fla doesn't rave about it. oxy contin and uhh I forget is popular with the Donzi crowd but get a heart meter as a companion piece. |
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When do you know it's over?
Crescentius Vespasianus wrote:
The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and it's time to move on to other pursuits. I have some personal clues, but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to this question. Only serious replies, and if there is someone out there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience would be helpful. Like quitting alcohol or a woman, every darned day sometimes isn't often enough. Cyclists seldom quit, really, but we do change style. Is it rapture every morning? No, but it's nice more often than not. I can't presume to give advice, but for me the alternates of not riding are much worse than anything the pavement or traffic has thrown so far. Ever tried a conversation with someone new and/or interesting over a leisurely ride? Or a breakfast run early Sunday with 1 or 2 companions? Once making mileage log entries at a sustained high rate is less than the #1 goal you may see it all differently. Or, you may be on to something, get away without a bike for a few days and see if you don't miss it. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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When do you know it's over?
On Dec 20, 5:43 pm, datakoll wrote:
try Prozac everyone in sunny Fla doesn't rave about it. oxy contin and uhh I forget is popular with the Donzi crowd but get a heart meter as a companion piece. ARE POPULAR, sorry carl. |
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When do you know it's over?
Crescentius Vespasianus wrote:
The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and it's time to move on to other pursuits. I have some personal clues, but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to this question. Only serious replies, and if there is someone out there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience would be helpful. If you are so old and/or weak you can't get started in a reasonable straight line? -- /Marten info(apestaartje)m-gineering(punt)nl |
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When do you know it's over?
On Dec 20, 2:46 pm, A Muzi wrote:
Crescentius Vespasianus wrote: The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and it's time to move on to other pursuits. I have some personal clues, but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to this question. Only serious replies, and if there is someone out there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience would be helpful. Like quitting alcohol or a woman, every darned day sometimes isn't often enough. Cyclists seldom quit, really, but we do change style. Is it rapture every morning? No, but it's nice more often than not. I can't presume to give advice, but for me the alternates of not riding are much worse than anything the pavement or traffic has thrown so far. Ever tried a conversation with someone new and/or interesting over a leisurely ride? Or a breakfast run early Sunday with 1 or 2 companions? Once making mileage log entries at a sustained high rate is less than the #1 goal you may see it all differently. Or, you may be on to something, get away without a bike for a few days and see if you don't miss it. Are we talking racing or riding at all? I mean, really, stopping riding would mean that I spend twice the time in traffic and tons of money on gas. I am simply too cheap and too impatient to stop commuting by bike. OTOH, you stop racing and non-essential riding when it is no longer fun. Then you start up again when you realize that you miss it -- or as part of some mid-life crisis-and-diet plan. Personally, I gave up racing when I realized it was putting a big hole in my family life, and I was no longer placing or doing anything other than paying entry fees to be pack filler. I now get all the competition I need by riding with my old teammates, but I don't have to worry about being dropped because they wait for me (if necessary). We also get to talk a lot of rebellious guy talk, which helps us to forget that we are actually a bunch of whipped married guys struggling to fend off guts and old age. Very therapeutic.-- Jay Beattie. |
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When do you know it's over?
my mom rode at 83 and fell off then she stopped later breaking her hip picking oranges at 89. Try SoBe before dinner and vivarin after lunch following glucosamine and Cerbex at breakfast. |
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When do you know it's over?
On Dec 20, 5:00*pm, still just me wrote:
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:59:04 -0800 (PST), Crescentius Vespasianus wrote: The question is: *When do you know that it is over in cycling, and it's time to move on to other pursuits. *I have some personal clues, but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to this question. *Only serious replies, and if there is someone out there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience would be helpful. When you start taking your bike for granted, when you and your bike stop saying the little niceties to each other, when looking at your bike doesn't get you all excited... then it's over. Well, it's over for THAT bike. You might get excited about an other, lighter and younger bike. I've seen that happen. Mid-life crisis trophy bikes. -- Jay Beattie. |
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When do you know it's over?
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:59:04 -0800 (PST), Crescentius Vespasianus
wrote: The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and it's time to move on to other pursuits. When they pry the handlebar from my cold dead hands. |
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