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Old 11-14-08, 01:14 PM
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Lunch or dinner what ever meal is coming up after my ride. I pretty much ride so I can eat what I want in moderation.
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yesterday I was thinking about how smooth my bike shifts.
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How much better I will look/faster I will be at the end of the ride. Which is usually a bridge into laughing in my head about what my ex-girlfriends are missing out on.
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Since I'm not going to HTFU, and put on all the layers for this cold & dark shi-atzu I'm thinking isn't that the same chair I've been trying to pass for a long time. Right before I decided to go indoors, I was thinking how much shorter the hills seem since I've lost 25 lbs. of useless me.
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Since I'm not going to HTFU, and put on all the layers for this cold & dark shi-atzu I'm thinking isn't that the same chair I've been trying to pass for a long time. Right before I decided to go indoors, I was thinking how much shorter the hills seem since I've lost 25 lbs. of useless me.
Congratulations. I am sure that makes a big difference on the uphill for sure!
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Old 11-16-08, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by s4one
Lunch or dinner what ever meal is coming up after my ride.
On some really hard rides I'm thinking about the previous meal, which may also be coming up.
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The most recurring themes.. Either life is great.. Or else I'm out here pedaling away to make it feel a notch better. For sure it makes you appreciate the planet.
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Nothing. Or Winning. Or vice-versa.
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Everything and nothing... it depends.
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Originally Posted by AssosMan
Getting my butt from point A to point B
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I often consider the mathematics of cycling. Like how a hilly circuit (beginning and ending at the same point) mathematically has an equal amounts of uphills and downhills but I'll spend a majority of the time on said circuit riding uphill.

Oh, and I DO solve world problems... Although Kevin Rudd (Australian PM) is yet to answer any of my correspondence.
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