Originally Posted by
Carbonfiberboy
Faster compared with one's self yesterday or the day before or the day before that or last year or two years ago or . . . Never give up. The way to keep doing it is to keep doing it. At rest stops on long event rides, youngers often ask me, "How do you do it?" Yeah, because I'm there in the rest stop with them and ahead of a few hundred of their peers. The foregoing is my reply. There's always a way to train and/or ride smarter, because one can't keep training harder. Never had an injury on the bike that I couldn't fix by training smarter.
Fair and accurate.
I agree, its ALWAYS better to ride smarter rather than harder.
Crashing was a normal part of this process when I was younger, recovery time was measured in hours, rather than weeks as well.
I still like to ride, just more sensibly, there is a point where the risk isn't worth the reward.