Originally Posted by
MadKaw
I understand totally, but a wise man said this to me: "Whenever you think 'I have to do this', replace those words with 'I want to do this' and whenever you think 'I want to do this' replace those words with 'it would be nice if...'"
So I just avoid the mind set of having goals as things I need to do and just go with the flow surrounded by things that would be nice if they happen. That does NOT mean that it is not worth investing the time and effort to improve the probability of those things happening, just realizing that you can't MAKE them happen.
Maybe the word "goal" was the wrong choice here. I don't often use that word with regard to anything, I'm a natural born slacker. School, work, riding, I normally do enough to get by and leave it at that.
The problem with riding is when I want to ride with friends who are faster, younger, lighter, and train and watch their diet, getting by becomes more of a challenge.
When I was younger as long as I could get 10+ hours per week, I could do any ride my club was doing. I may have suffered sometimes but I ALWAYS finished.
Now I can't make the claim of being ready for anything and that is what I would like to be able to do.