I get depressed and mopey if I don't ride for more than 2 days. If I know I can't ride for 2 days, I'll go balls to the walls before that so I can call 2 days recovery days, but after that I start itching for a ride.

I started riding a year ago. If you'd told me then that I'd be racing in crits that averaged over 24 mph, I would have laughed at you. Today, I'm doing that and not even getting winded. I need to work on tactics and placing

Riding is addicting. Racing is addicting. Cycling is amazing.

I had a great experience with a driver a few days ago too. I was semi lost because of a detour in one of the rides I do pretty often and I flagged down a drive in Jetta to ask him to point me in the right direction. He did that, and offered me water. I had a great ride that day