Worst ride yesterday.

[Tz779]

Originally Posted by charliedid

I also think about the fact that in the not so distant future I will have one of those days where I feel super human and invincible.

Yin and yang and all that.

Humans

yes, i have strawberry gel-shots w caffeine!
As I said, my ride the day bf was awesome. I guess I expected to top that. Maybe a super human day.
I know I am fortunate to live in a climate that allows me to ride pretty much year round. And to be able to still be so active.
Maybe the frustrations of other things going on just got pinned on that ride.
Another PLer I quoted said, “..nobody flipped you off, nobody ran you off the road, its a good day!”
Thanks so much to everyone for cheering me up. ; )
Robin

[R3awak3n]

did you say it was 63? its 20 here and also windy as hell. But I get it, some days are better, some days are worst.

[Spaghetti Legs]

I spoke too soon in my earlier post. Had a few stretches of nice tailwind but one tough sector of semi fresh laid gravel and false flat into a stiff headwind. Hurt so good.

[slowpoke]

Originally Posted by reuben

I live near a large body of water. At some points I ride on a road close to and parallel to the water. A couple of months a go I was making a loop in a residential area which is at the end of a peninsula. Going out the peninsula wasn't bad, as I was inshore a bit and protected by houses and trees. When I took the left to make the return trip (parallel and next to the water) I could see 2-3 foot waves with whitecaps. "This is gonna be ugly," I said to myself. I was right.

It was still a good ride.

Was this you?

https://twitter.com/ABC7Chicago/stat...19397495615488

[choke]

Just remember, it can always be worse...

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by Tz779

I rode a very satisfying ride Tues, four laps of a five-mile loop.
I went out yesterday, warmer, 63F, but wind was a bit strong. It took me forty minutes to complete two laps! The headwind seemed to follow me every direction. Lately it has been gusty, not like SF(!), but spun thru those bits of road.

Yesterday, it just broke my spirit.

Cold, wet, windy..if I have 2, I don't ride. If it 'breaks your spirit', don't ride..do something else.....
Or ride somewhere else..if I want to ride and the conditions(wind) 'blow', I do a 'bike path bounce around'..just get on a MUP and trundle around..probably what I'll start to do when I get back on the bike...

[chicagorider]

Originally Posted by slowpoke

Was this you?



https://twitter.com/ABC7Chicago/stat...19397495615488

I definitely skip this part of the trail now... In the past, it was frozen, didn't see it, fell on the ice and almost slid into the lake with my bike! (I had one leg literally hanging off the edge...)

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[Tz779]

Originally Posted by R3awak3n

did you say it was 63? its 20 here and also windy as hell. But I get it, some days are better, some days are worst.

I know, I should not complain!
Maybe I just had expectations for a super day; instead it was grinding against a headwind seemingly everywhere.

I love the Wyoming wind sock!

[reuben]

Originally Posted by slowpoke

Was this you?

https://twitter.com/ABC7Chicago/stat...19397495615488

Ha! Thankfully, no. If it was me, I would have fallen off far less gracefully.

[vqdriver]

Originally Posted by gone

I try to practice what I call "the Zen of the wind".

You don't fight it, you take what it gives you. If that's 8 MPH, it's 8 MPH.

Pushing hard into the wind, the wind wins. Every time.

this.
on days like the op's it can be discouraging. but really how many times will i curse the wind only to realize there's no point in fighting nature.

i remind myself from time to time that "nature + man = nature"
this is a mathematical certainty