I wish I had both the conditioning and the time to ride 50 miles at a clip. I can usually escape for 20 milers, though and it is refreshing to clear your head and just focus on the ride instead of all the other crap in your daily life so I can see doing more at a time one day.
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
