Do You Ever Feel Sexy
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...on the bike?
Jason Giambi was a slugger with the New York Yankees. During his peak, he was an incredibly formidable foe. During an interview one time, he described the way he sometimes felt when he stepped into the batters box as "sexy."
That resonated with me immediately. I experience it sometimes when cycling. I suppose most people probably call it "in the zone." Despite getting what Giambi meant, and thinking about it often over the years, it can be hard to describe. I felt sexy yesterday on my ride.
It has an element of enhanced performance. An element of confidence, like you "own the place." An element of the reward being greater than the effort expended. It's a very psychologically aware and alert state.
Help me out here. If you know what I am talking about, what do you call it, and how do you describe it?
EDIT: After reading a few responses, it looks like I should mention that when Giambi said he felt sexy, it was not about his appearance.
Jason Giambi was a slugger with the New York Yankees. During his peak, he was an incredibly formidable foe. During an interview one time, he described the way he sometimes felt when he stepped into the batters box as "sexy."
That resonated with me immediately. I experience it sometimes when cycling. I suppose most people probably call it "in the zone." Despite getting what Giambi meant, and thinking about it often over the years, it can be hard to describe. I felt sexy yesterday on my ride.
It has an element of enhanced performance. An element of confidence, like you "own the place." An element of the reward being greater than the effort expended. It's a very psychologically aware and alert state.
Help me out here. If you know what I am talking about, what do you call it, and how do you describe it?
EDIT: After reading a few responses, it looks like I should mention that when Giambi said he felt sexy, it was not about his appearance.
Did you have figjam on your toast this morning?
On a serious note, are you an adult onset athlete? If you been competing in sports, you know those moments come and go. You have good days and bad days. Good days when you still lose and bad days when you win. Days where you can't miss a shot or ones when you can't make one. And so on and so on. The main thing is to act like you been there/done it before. Otherwise, people will know you haven't.
There is a class instructor at my gym that refers to sweating as "sexy." When the class ends she says everyone has "the glisten."
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Jason Giambi never appeared to have a firm grasp of the English language so I’m not sure that I would want to refer to his use of the word ‘sexy’ for any reason.
But certainly not as a comparison to cycling lol.
You do you though and get down with your sexy cycling self
But certainly not as a comparison to cycling lol.
You do you though and get down with your sexy cycling self
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Do they ever. I am glad you mentioned that. They are indeed elusive. You can't will them on yourself. When you have those moments, what do you call them?
I would have never predicted one yesterday. I had a crushing headache. I wanted to lay down on the couch and sleep. It took all the fortitude I could muster to get off my butt, get in the saddle and give it a try.
I would have never predicted one yesterday. I had a crushing headache. I wanted to lay down on the couch and sleep. It took all the fortitude I could muster to get off my butt, get in the saddle and give it a try.
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He wasn’t talking about euphoria, flow, or the runners high. He just wasn’t. It’s a confidence gained by knowing your own capabilities in comparison to the challenge of what you’re facing.
In the baseball example, it’s stepping up and knowing that he can hit against that pitcher. That he knows he can crush it.
In my stronger years I frequently felt that out rock climbing. Looking up at some horror show of overhanging, bad gear, big injury potential and yep, I knew it was going to be just fine. I can’t do that anymore, anything I get up is touch and go these days.
I was never a fast enough racer to look around at the starting line and know I was going to podium. I occasionally did get a good result but that’s not the same.
Maybe it’s in planning a ride “I’m going to go over all those mountains, before lunch” or something like that. Looking at a pretty difficult day and never questioning if you can do, so just go do it. Maybe that is as close as us unsexy amateurs can get.
Sexy - confident - cocky - good at what you do
Its all the same.
Does anyone want to shave my legs?
In the baseball example, it’s stepping up and knowing that he can hit against that pitcher. That he knows he can crush it.
In my stronger years I frequently felt that out rock climbing. Looking up at some horror show of overhanging, bad gear, big injury potential and yep, I knew it was going to be just fine. I can’t do that anymore, anything I get up is touch and go these days.
I was never a fast enough racer to look around at the starting line and know I was going to podium. I occasionally did get a good result but that’s not the same.
Maybe it’s in planning a ride “I’m going to go over all those mountains, before lunch” or something like that. Looking at a pretty difficult day and never questioning if you can do, so just go do it. Maybe that is as close as us unsexy amateurs can get.
Sexy - confident - cocky - good at what you do
Its all the same.
Does anyone want to shave my legs?
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Jason Giambi never appeared to have a firm grasp of the English language so I’m not sure that I would want to refer to his use of the word ‘sexy’ for any reason.
But certainly not as a comparison to cycling lol.
You do you though and get down with your sexy cycling self
But certainly not as a comparison to cycling lol.
You do you though and get down with your sexy cycling self
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The most effective kind of bicycle advocacy is to make bicycling look sexy. I love this new analogy of bicycling with the swagger of a slugger stepping up to the plate to swing for the fences. I feel that same mix of confidence and suspense when I ride.
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I’m too sexy for this thread. Too sexy for this thread. Too sexy I said.
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Only once.
I was climbing a wall out of the saddle and two cute girls in a Pinto pulled up next to me. The passenger grabbed my glutes and then smacked them. It sent a twinge of sexy feeling thru my body.
I was feeling proud of my little Cat 4 shaven guns that day.
I was climbing a wall out of the saddle and two cute girls in a Pinto pulled up next to me. The passenger grabbed my glutes and then smacked them. It sent a twinge of sexy feeling thru my body.
I was feeling proud of my little Cat 4 shaven guns that day.
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I’m too sexy for this thread. Too sexy for this thread. Too sexy I said.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XNhZNGh8t4g
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XNhZNGh8t4g
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We used to have a snot green Pinto.
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I'm too sexy for my bike
Too sexy for my bike
TIght spandex is what the women like
With my legs, gotta watch out for Colonel Sanders, though!!
Too sexy for my bike
TIght spandex is what the women like
With my legs, gotta watch out for Colonel Sanders, though!!
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I’m too sexy for this thread. Too sexy for this thread. Too sexy I said.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XNhZNGh8t4g
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XNhZNGh8t4g
I don't know if "sexy" is the right word, but I really enjoyed racing the commuter trains on the Schuylkill.
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Do you ever feel sexy on the bike?
Yes. I sometimes get the feeling being described when cycling on busier or higher speed roads in the traffic lanes. Roads where motorists see few to no cyclists. Being in the center of left turn only lanes with cars and semi trucks in front, behind, and alongside of me. Keeping tabs on myself and everyone around me. Confidently and seamlessly occupying and switching lanes, while signaling my intentions and safely fitting right in. It does attract attention and sometimes feels “sexy”. I’d say the “calm confidence” that one presents is a main ingredient.
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I’m too sexy for this thread. Too sexy for this thread. Too sexy I said.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XNhZNGh8t4g
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XNhZNGh8t4g
Then I realized what they were looking at: I was wearing only bib shorts and a cycling cap with the brim turned up. Looked just like one of the guys from Right Said Fred. Yeah, I'm too sexy for my jersey.
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Yes. I sometimes get the feeling being described when cycling on busier or higher speed roads in the traffic lanes. Roads where motorists see few to no cyclists. Being in the center of left turn only lanes with cars and semi trucks in front, behind, and alongside of me. Keeping tabs on myself and everyone around me. Confidently and seamlessly occupying and switching lanes, while signaling my intentions and safely fitting right in. It does attract attention and sometimes feels “sexy”. I’d say the “calm confidence” that one presents is a main ingredient.
You get it. Seamlessly is a great word. Things just flow effortlessly. Unnaturally so.
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Don't feed the boring troll.
His insults aren't even amusing enough to read, let alone respond to.
I've got him on ignore, and you're circumventing that by quoting him.
I'm still trying to think of a better word than "sexy" here. For me, it's the sense that this machine is going to go as fast as I want it to and today that's damn fast. Zoom! And I don't get tired, I just keep going and going. It's kind of an out-of-body, my brain is directly connected to the bike kind of feeling.