On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 06:09 -0800, Mike wrote: > I remember Grant had a blog post about that earlier this year. I sent > him an email saying that while I frequently engaged in rides of 80+ > miles a lot of this has to do with the fact that I don't drive. I live > in Portland, OR and if I want to check out the view from Larch Mtn, > see Multnomah Falls or get into the woods in the Mt Hood National > Forest then I'm gonna ride out there and that means doing a long ride. > I'm all for rambling around town or a leisurely ramble through Forest > Park, but again, if I want the epic view from the top of Larch Mtn, > then I gotta ride up there. It's erroneous to assume that the only > reason people ride long distances is because it feels good when you > stop or for bragging rights.
At a certain fitness level (in terms of both overall & training for distance) rides in the 80-100 mile range are simply "ordinary rides," just as for many riders a 50 mile ride is nothing special, just an ordinary ride. Bragging has nothing to do with it. Neither does "feeling good when you stop." It feels good to ride; that's why we do it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
