joshua

I went for my first slightly long bike ride this last Saturday.  It felt pretty bad for the first bit.  I’m not used to carrying so much weight on my back rack, or riding a steel framed road bike, or the ‘clipless’ pedals that magically convert my leg’s every motion into torque.  I wanted to excuse myself.  I wanted to stop and lay down in the grass, but it was cloudy so I felt like turning back and laying down in bed. 

 If I hadn’t been biking with a partner that day, I probably would have given up about a quarter of the way there.  The shame of re-negging on a committment kept me in the saddle, plus it was kind of a run to do some crucial errands in the next town over.

I’m glad I didn’t turn back, since soon after the first wall hit I felt a lot better.  It became easier.  I imagine about the scenario of having turned back halfway, I would have been very unsatisfied.

That is why I make it a policy to indulge in the uncomfortable, only then can I live with some measure of satisfaction knowing that I did all I could have done. 

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