Quotes and thoughts and other things.

The Triple D racers heading out of town. Why is there that red circle following me? I think that is a sign that my chain is going to break and I won't have a chain tool and a link. DUH!!!!  I wish I would have paid more attention to that big red circle that day.

The man next to me I'm chatting with is Michael Lemberger he worked hard the last three years for this race. This day all the hard work paid off, Michael took 6th place amongst a very experienced group.

“You can get sympathy or you can get better but you can’t get both. You can be in your comfort zone or you can have growth, but you can’t have both. You can be interested or you can be sold-out-committed, but you can’t entertain both. You can have excuses or have results, but you can’t do both. Choose the path that develops your visceral fortitude.”
- Mario Cortes

My daughter, Melissa, posted the above quote on FaceBook. She has started the long road of training to be a long distance runner, a marathoner. This spring is her first marathon. It becomes a lifestyle, a journey, like us long distance bicyclers, a way of life.

 

Replacing my broken chain.  Now after cleaning and examining my old chain that broke during the Triple D race Sunday, I realize it wasn't an accident, the chain was wore out. It was half a link longer then a new chain, and there was another crack waiting to break. I learned my lesson. That is the thing about long distance winter riding, you never stop learning, so many tricks and skill sets involved.

Here's another quote, being I'm not riding until next Monday, I am having my knee injected with Synvisc tomorrow, which is a repair for damaged cartilage from and old injury. So reading quotes and reading bicycling blogs seem to help my endorphin withdraw symptoms. 

"To go a single day without two hours of rigorous exercise, "wrote Santayana, "was now out of the question. It would have meant physical restlessness and discomfort indoors and the most horrible sensual moodiness in the inner man."

So readers, riders, and others I hope today was a good one for you,

RideON,
DAve.