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02-04-24, 05:16 PM
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At this stage of my life, riding my bike is probably the best form of therapy.
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02-04-24, 05:24 PM
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Ponied up for a Super Bowl grid at the office before I left. I have 0-0. So I’ve got that going for me.
02-04-24, 05:30 PM
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02-04-24, 06:06 PM
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02-04-24, 06:07 PM
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02-04-24, 06:14 PM
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So it is
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Yeah, that’s the thing. We are not racing. We are in it for the fun. At least that’s how I look at it. He may look at it more as a “competition” even though we are not racing. Most of us are at the same level, and I doubt highly that his approach has made him any faster than the rest of us who just ride and enjoy.
Without knowing the reasoning behind the coach, it's hard to comment much more than I have. I know that if I were paying for a coach, and there were goals involved, everything I did would be under his direction. The 200-300k deal was the only thing from your writing that I thought he was being a dick, and that's totally on him. When on a trip such as that, being divorced from the coach's orders should have been paramount.
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02-04-24, 06:16 PM
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02-04-24, 06:21 PM
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02-04-24, 06:22 PM
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02-04-24, 06:30 PM
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02-04-24, 06:35 PM
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It's not called addiction for nothing. although in my case to do more cycling I'd have to give up some of the tramping (hiking). tough call.
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02-04-24, 06:38 PM
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02-04-24, 06:39 PM
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I need to ride away from the fact that this stupid ailment is making it physically difficult to ride away from anything else.
02-04-24, 06:52 PM
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02-04-24, 07:04 PM
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I guess the stolen bicycle is still stolen, yes?
02-04-24, 07:04 PM
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I'm a very type-A, anxious person. Some sort of morning endorphin hit is part of being a well-adjusted. functional adult for me. Like I still have the drive at work, but I don't get so worked up over things and can see the forest from the trees better. Cycling has been my exercise of choice for about 15 years now, since I started racing collegiate
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02-04-24, 07:07 PM
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I wonder what I might be riding away from. I’ll have to look into that. Or riding toward. I haven’t ridden at all, since my near metric a week ago.
02-04-24, 07:31 PM
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I'm a very type-A, anxious person. Some sort of morning endorphin hit is part of being a well-adjusted. functional adult for me. Like I still have the drive at work, but I don't get so worked up over things and can see the forest from the trees better. Cycling has been my exercise of choice for about 15 years now, since I started racing collegiate
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02-04-24, 07:40 PM
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I was off the bike for 3 weeks in my 40s (doctors orders). Also, 6 months off in 1988. Other than that I haven't been off for more than 5 days in 40ish years. I'm pretty sure about this.
Addiction, indeed.
Addiction, indeed.
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02-04-24, 08:03 PM
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I get hinky after two days off but I seem to get over it about day 7. For example, we’re driving for three days in a couple weeks and I’ll be a wreck by day 4 when I finally get back on a bike. However, we take a couple non-biking trips every year and I generally get over it after about a week.
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02-04-24, 09:40 PM
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You’re kidding, right? It would be a financial disaster as well as history’s Worst ever.
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02-04-24, 09:47 PM
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I can take it or leave it, cycling that is. (There’s always one in the crowd.) Maybe this summer I’ll get some in. 
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02-04-24, 09:52 PM
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02-04-24, 10:01 PM
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02-04-24, 10:22 PM
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