Originally Posted by
TakingMyTime
Good subject:
I get a kick out of answering the question "What did you do this morning?" with... "I just got back from a 40 mile ride".. The tragic thing is that most of the people asking me this appear to have just woken up. No one in the family that I married into has ever exercised in their entire life and several of them are morbidly obese. To them I probably seem like an Olympian.
Hah. On a Saturday this past September I went for my normal morning group ride, got home, changed bikes and clothes, and rode to a nearby park to attend my department's fall picnic. I sat down to lunch and a co-worker said something to the effect of, "you're a little late, but you probably already went for a 40 mile bike ride this morning." I said, "105, if I don't count the 5 miles that it took to ride here." Everybody at the picnic table just stared. Many of them are reasonably outdoorsy and active, though some are not. But they think that a casual century is so strange as to be some kind of fanaticism. Maybe to them it is.