I absolutely cherish my short rides. Where I live there are two routes to take: up (which branches off to myriad of road and trail rides starting after 5 miles) or down (which is great for 4 miles, then heads either up Pikes Peak or down the highway and to the lowlands. I rarely take this farther than 4 miles unless I know I'm going up Pikes Peak road and/or trails). My brain doesn't allow me to ride on any given day. Many days I take off having no idea how far I'll make it. If I'm doing well enough, the ride helps me recover, and a short ride becomes a half or full day ride. Often, just the short ride is all I can do, but getting out and moving helps brain function so I do better the rest of the day, and can do more the next. I absolutely LOVE my short rides!
With abandon, Patrick On Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 4:55:25 PM UTC-6, Joe Bernard wrote: > > Grant mentioned this to me a few weeks ago and I thought I'd pass it > along: "A 10 to 30 minute ride is always a good idea." I really appreciated > this because - although I'm not trying to bust out metric centuries anymore > - I still have a tendency to think short rides don't count as a "real > ride." Of course that's silly, but apparently I needed to be reminded. > Today I had exactly 30 minutes available before work started, so I grabbed > my Bobbin mini velo (Choco-Moose bars) and hit the road. It was fabulous. > > He also said, "You should never do a ride you wouldn't want to do every > day. Well maybe 4 times a year, 5 tops." I love that. > > Joe "just (a short) ride" Bernard > Vallejo, CA. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
