Originally Posted by
tlc20010
If I had "Listened to my body" to begin with, I would have missed a good ride as well as some valuable exercise. I think my body lies to me a lot because it is lazy, but like a petulant child who has to be dragged to something new and then has a good time after all, the old bod often responds--because I didn't listen to it.
This is so true! Verified it today, in fact. Rode a fairly flat century on Sat. (little over 2,000 ft) then today was riding up in the mountains with a lot of climbing (5,000 ft. total). The fast climbers took off, and my legs were hurting and I was thinking about turning back. "Shouldn't have ridden so fast on the century yesterday" I said to myself.
But then, a few miles later (maybe 7 or 8 miles into the climb (5 and 6%) I started feeling a LOT better. After a short descent I hammered up the next climb, then just kept my legs turning in a relatively easy gear (34 x 25). Eventually I caught up with the fast climbers, and then on a 3.5 mile section (6-7%) I actually pulled away! My legs were feeling great!
So yeah, listen to your body, but don't always do what its telling you to do!
Rick / OCRR