Sunday morning I planned on taking the kids to church. I woke up early to feed the dogs but instead of going back to bed, I decided to get my Inglis back up and running by converting the rear wheel from my Felt to a single speed. As I started to pull the wheel off my bike I had a change of heart; I put the Felt back together, washed off the mud from the Yankee Springs race in April, and let the kids sleep in so I could ride. Since God is omnipresent I figured what the hell.
This is the part of the story where a physiologist could have a field day: I was overcome with guilt for neglecting my Felt this summer, as if it rolled it eyes and sighed: "sure, screw up your single speed and come crawling back to me." I half expected it to launch me into a tree to make this point. It didn't. It worked fine. It was a good ride, but now my Inglis is upset with me.
Those bikes do get jealous...
ReplyDeleteIs your work stress going down at all? I assume that is the culprit for the lack of saddle time?
I do like to blame work for my lackluster season verses my own lack of motivation. Actually stress does have a lot to do with it. Lets see, I am working for a bankrupt company, that is about to lay off 2000 salaried employees, and my job is getting pre-production cars ready for the harsh magazines so if you read anything bad in Car & Driver or MotorTrend or Autoweek, it will be my ass, and oh yeah, I am currently working on a prototype Volt that will kill you if you touch the wrong wire. Oh crap I am bitter...and I just finished a great ride.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear it. I love the electric car concept. Lets burn coal or oil for electricity instead of gas and call it progress. I guess we could also build giant dams or nuke plants too...ahhh progress.
ReplyDeleteI have been getting saddle time, but the job and life stress has kept me from racing. The thought of getting all amp'd up and prepared for a race makes my stomach turn. Stress is a strange thing...
I got dropped on a group ride last night. Ouch. I even used my geared bike. It was the kick in the butt I needed to start a more disciplined approach to riding again. 3 months to the Iceman. And seriously, I'm not bitter.
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