Miquel In De Rain
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You get a woman's body which is faster? Sounds about right.
Seriously I'd die for that figure.
Why must I ride hard?
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You get a woman's body which is faster? Sounds about right.
Seriously I'd die for that figure.
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
You get a woman's body which is faster? Sounds about right.
What you lose in power, you make up for in looks. Not you. The video.
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Yep, full speed ahead everytime, except when I am out with the kids when somehow I have all the patience in the world and will stop at every lamp post while they adjust their helmets, ride repeatedly up and down a step, climb a tree etc, etc
BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
- Location
- Selly Oak, Birmingham
I'm just the same.
I get up, and whilst doing morning constitutional things, think about really pushing it on the way into work that morning. After breakfast and washing I hit a low point, and get tempted to have any easier ride in, enjoy the views and take it easy. That last until I ride off my drive, at which point all the targets start getting at me one-by-one. Each stretch has a target maximum or target minimum. It takes a lot of effort to reach each one, but once one has been achieved, then the next one HAS to be met.
Then I get to work red hot, out of breath and sweating buckets. And I think back wistfully to the minute before I left when I thought 'I'll just take it easy today."
There is but one antidote, and it doesn't last long. That is the fast and tough ride on the weekend. If either Saturday or Sunday consisted of a Sportive pushing as fast a time as you can manage, or an Audax that pushed you further, harder and up steeper hills than you had previously imagined possible, or smashed a distance target that had been taunting you for a long time, Monday's commuting targets just doesn't seem worth the effort.
However by the next week, the effect has usually worn off.
I get up, and whilst doing morning constitutional things, think about really pushing it on the way into work that morning. After breakfast and washing I hit a low point, and get tempted to have any easier ride in, enjoy the views and take it easy. That last until I ride off my drive, at which point all the targets start getting at me one-by-one. Each stretch has a target maximum or target minimum. It takes a lot of effort to reach each one, but once one has been achieved, then the next one HAS to be met.
Then I get to work red hot, out of breath and sweating buckets. And I think back wistfully to the minute before I left when I thought 'I'll just take it easy today."
There is but one antidote, and it doesn't last long. That is the fast and tough ride on the weekend. If either Saturday or Sunday consisted of a Sportive pushing as fast a time as you can manage, or an Audax that pushed you further, harder and up steeper hills than you had previously imagined possible, or smashed a distance target that had been taunting you for a long time, Monday's commuting targets just doesn't seem worth the effort.
However by the next week, the effect has usually worn off.
BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
- Location
- Selly Oak, Birmingham
Hip Priest
Veteran
I'm the same. Can't help riding as fast as possible.
Mugshot
Cracking a solo.
I used to have my cycle computer displaying my average speed along with my current speed, I found I was half killing myself trying to maintain or beat my previous best, "If I can keep above 18mph for the final couple of miles I should come in with a 16mph average", that kind of thing, so I changed it to show ride time and current mph, now I race the clock instead, "I made it to this point in 14:31:23 yesterday, I'm 4 seconds up!" My names Mugshot and I think my commute is a TdF time trial, it's a bit pathetic really.
400bhp
Guru
it's a bit pathetic really.
No, not at all - good for fitness, motivation and for something to pass the time. Remember, this is a commute to work. It should be mundane, but we know better.
thefollen
Veteran
- Location
- Balham/Tooting Bec
Just the way it goes! Often I tell myself "Just going to rest the legs today, take it easy." Now I fully intend to do just this. Unfortunately it never happens. Maybe the thought of breakfast/dinner acting as the proverbial (and almost literal) carrot on a stick.
Nearly there
Veteran
- Location
- Cumbria
I find im quicker if i dont look at my speedometer
