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10-07-07 | 05:40 AM

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Originally Posted by BikeArkansas

This thread is not where I was thinking when I wrote the subject, but it is interesting. Goals are important to me because I tend to not push myself without them, and yes I need to push myself to get physically fit. I played college basketball - 40 years ago - and I consider that competitive. It was competitive just to keep your scholarship, much less playing the other teams. For me, riding the bicycle is not competitive. If I were racing it would be, but I am not racing. Goals help me achieve the fitness I need to feel better, and I do feel physically better than I have in years. If I were riding just for enjoyment I would not make but a few miles per ride and I would not be in the condition I am today. Goals work for me, for some they do not.

OK, that makes sense to me. You know yourself best. I likely over reacted a bit to your post, because I had just read another post with detailed daily achievement plans that just blew me away, and I sort of put the two in the same package in my head.

I would support the concept of measuring one's self against one's self, and not others, and I do enjoy seeing changes and improvement in myself.

Then, there comes into the question just what is "enjoyment?"

Oh, this is all too much.

Have a great day. Sorry to have detoured your thread a bit.

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