How Are You Cheering?
You know those long, steep hills?
In life, or on a bicycle?
They can be Tough!
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”What Are YOU Thinking?”
As of May 23, ten weeks ’til bike trip!
A ride this week was
One of most exhausting I’ve ridden!
Wasn’t length — 27mi. very do-able now.
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How Do You Get Shape Back Into Your Life When it Gets Flat?
Eleven weeks until start of Empire State Ride.
No biking to report.
Unusual week filled with time-consuming appts.
Each important with positive outcome,
Each gulping down time.
What Keeps You “Plugging Along”?
Did I ask you that before?
It’s been relevant for me this week.
Staying diligent & consistent,
Increasing mileage as I ride nearly daily,
Needed an “auto-pilot” setting.
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How Have “Could and Should” Balanced For You?
Yippee!
Positive start on longer ride-days.
20, 30, even a 40 miler this week!
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How Do Consistent & Persistent Show Up For You?
Showing up,
Completing the task.
Grumbling as I go.
I guess that’s “consistent & persistent”.
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What’s Your “Current Carrot” On Discouraging Days?
Slightly longer rides this week.
These longer ride days are
HARD!
Relearning, AGAIN, that
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What Is Your Winter Focus?
This time can prompt our noticing
Connection, similarity,
In simplest activity.
Break-Out Day
Cumulative COVID effects for me
Result in feeling nothing is possible.
What about you?
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My Two-Thousand-Mile Goal
I’ve met my second
One-thousand-mile goal for this summer! Today, rode final 19 miles.
August 5 to September 28 was span for these miles.
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What I Learned This Trip
As I biked toward Bob,
Completing last few feet of this journey, Bob said,
“Congratulations on 500 ‘unusually-collected’ miles!”
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Anticlimactic Finish
Rode 30 miles: started St. James, MN Elevation 1,079 ft.Thursday, September 12, 2019Hello Friends,Ride continues to “dance around” weather. I rode 20 miles St. James <-> Medelia, MN.Highway shoulder marked for biking.Loaded up cycles to avoid rainDrove on toward home. Next ten mile section ridden.On familiar Sakatah Bike Trail. We’re in our Northfield home tonight.Ready to be here,Not […]
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