Spontaneity
05-21-10, 01:45 PM
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Spontaneity
How planned are your rides?
I'm sitting here getting all giddy with excitement about riding tomorrow. The weather is uncharacteristically glorious, my legs are firmed and toned by a week of hill repeats.
Dammit...I'm doing a century tomorrow. Who's with me?
I'm sitting here getting all giddy with excitement about riding tomorrow. The weather is uncharacteristically glorious, my legs are firmed and toned by a week of hill repeats.
Dammit...I'm doing a century tomorrow. Who's with me?
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05-21-10, 01:48 PM
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05-21-10, 01:54 PM
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05-21-10, 01:59 PM
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Tomorrow looks good around here too. I like your idea.
Post your report tomorrow to compare rides.
05-21-10, 02:03 PM
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Spontaneity as much as possible with the attempt to always keep the wind at my back on the return leg.
05-21-10, 02:11 PM
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05-21-10, 02:17 PM
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I usually scope out my route on Google maps. I also usse some of the local club routes (they post maps and cue sheets online).
It's supposed to be nice here tomorrow, so I'll likely get in a couple of hours riding.
It's supposed to be nice here tomorrow, so I'll likely get in a couple of hours riding.
05-21-10, 03:46 PM
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i'm having second thoughts
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05-21-10, 04:24 PM
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My wife just told me I need to be back to the house by 11 AM so that rules out the group ride I was planning on going to. Does that count as spontaneity?
05-21-10, 04:28 PM
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well it's te best offer so far. what a bunch of stuffy boring stiff you all are.
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05-21-10, 04:28 PM
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In the middle of finals, I told myself I was going to take a break from cycling this week and next week to git er dun, but damnit, I was going crazy so I just went for a ride. Feels good. But now I'm even more behind 
05-21-10, 05:42 PM
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I plan on being spontaneous someday.
05-21-10, 05:46 PM
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Kinda the other day....rode to the local trails on my MTB yesterday....got bored after 15 mins (and too many bugs!!).....so I did 70 road kms on my MTB 
05-21-10, 06:54 PM
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05-21-10, 07:09 PM
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Can you come over and let Bailey out about 1:00 ?
05-21-10, 07:18 PM
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When I lived on my own in Winnipeg, I'd head out on a Saturday morning and ride this direction and that direction and until I felt like returning home again ... wherever the wind blew me. I might end up covering 80 km, 120 km, 160 km or 200 km.
When I lived in Alberta, my family was close by so I felt compelled to give them an itinerary of where I might be going ... so my rides were less spontaneous. But I'd usually decide on a route on the Thursday before a weekend becuase the weather was so variable that I could never count on the weather being decent on the weekend.
Then I moved to the middle of nowhere in Australia, where we have to drive out in order to ride, and the rides are still less spontaneous, although we usually decide anywhere from a week or two before (if we're going to an organised ride) or a day or two before (if we're just riding by ourselves) where we're going to ride.
We're moving a little closer to civilisation soon, so maybe some of the rides will be a bit more spontaneous again.
When I lived in Alberta, my family was close by so I felt compelled to give them an itinerary of where I might be going ... so my rides were less spontaneous. But I'd usually decide on a route on the Thursday before a weekend becuase the weather was so variable that I could never count on the weather being decent on the weekend.
Then I moved to the middle of nowhere in Australia, where we have to drive out in order to ride, and the rides are still less spontaneous, although we usually decide anywhere from a week or two before (if we're going to an organised ride) or a day or two before (if we're just riding by ourselves) where we're going to ride.
We're moving a little closer to civilisation soon, so maybe some of the rides will be a bit more spontaneous again.
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05-21-10, 07:41 PM
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When I lived on my own in Winnipeg, I'd head out on a Saturday morning and ride this direction and that direction and until I felt like returning home again ... wherever the wind blew me. I might end up covering 80 km, 120 km, 160 km or 200 km.
When I lived in Alberta, my family was close by so I felt compelled to give them an itinerary of where I might be going ... so my rides were less spontaneous. But I'd usually decide on a route on the Thursday before a weekend becuase the weather was so variable that I could never count on the weather being decent on the weekend.
Then I moved to the middle of nowhere in Australia, where we have to drive out in order to ride, and the rides are still less spontaneous, although we usually decide anywhere from a week or two before (if we're going to an organised ride) or a day or two before (if we're just riding by ourselves) where we're going to ride.
We're moving a little closer to civilisation soon, so maybe some of the rides will be a bit more spontaneous again.
When I lived in Alberta, my family was close by so I felt compelled to give them an itinerary of where I might be going ... so my rides were less spontaneous. But I'd usually decide on a route on the Thursday before a weekend becuase the weather was so variable that I could never count on the weather being decent on the weekend.
Then I moved to the middle of nowhere in Australia, where we have to drive out in order to ride, and the rides are still less spontaneous, although we usually decide anywhere from a week or two before (if we're going to an organised ride) or a day or two before (if we're just riding by ourselves) where we're going to ride.
We're moving a little closer to civilisation soon, so maybe some of the rides will be a bit more spontaneous again.
I remember the photo of the cattle in the way. I can see how that would be a problem, without fenders.
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On a day when it has been raining, getting out on any bicycle would be a problem.
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Originally Posted by bragi 