This year I was almost absolute in riding to work eery day, Steve's rain, snow or shine, exceptions were mostly convenience to plans after work. That was only a couple times, not really any loss of determination. The insights of the group have helped develop this into a very reasonable proposition that almost seems mundane.
I spent time showing someone else how to ride in the city, for transportation, shopping and fun. I try not to advocate cycling to others unless their interest comes first. Too many times their basic commitment never equals their interest in the bike and associated gear, disillusionment resulting. I don't imply my cycling motivations upon curious or inquiring fledgling riders. All the times my effort was met with mediocre consistency of commitment made it so much more enjoyable to help someone who genuinely wanted to ride. It was important for her independence, peace of mind, fitness, and fun. That's been rewarding to develop and made up for all the previous less than successful involvements. I plan to keep up the commuting, the fun rides and bike trips, disregarding mileage unless a navigational need. If I ride when I want to, don't hesitate for any reason, and be available to show others about including cycling in their lives, it'll be another great year. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:49:05 PM UTC-5, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Steve Palincsar shared some info about himself that I think is awesome. > Unfortunately that great info was in a thread that was otherwise generally > icky. I'm breaking out the inspiring nugget out. Specifically, Steve said: > > "I and many, if not most, of the folks I ride with are well over 70" > "2018 was a bad year weather-wise, and my mileage is way off from last > year; instead of just missing 11,000 as was the case in 2017, I think I'm > going to finish 2018 with only 9,000. " > > Regardless of one's opinion about "Just Ride", septugenarian cyclists > putting down 10,000 mile years is freaking fantastic in my book. Steve is, > I think, very close to my father's age (if my father was still alive). I > hope to be laying down the big mileage of a Steve Palincsar when I'm in the > neighborhood of 75. 2018 is already my biggest mileage year ever. I've > got a puncher's chance at reaching 10,000km by year's end. I turn 50 in a > couple months, and I still work full-time and am still raising two > teenagers, so I'm anticipating major gains in the free-time department as > retirement approaches. My goal was to put down my first ever documented > 5000 mile year, and I've done that. I've got a little more than 1000 miles > to go to reach 10,000km. I also have wanted to do a half-million feet of > climbing in a calendar year. That won't happen for me in 2018, but I'm > about to hot 400,000 feet for the first time. > > What 2018 cycling goals did you set and achieve (or not-achieve)? What > goals will you place for 2019? > > Bill Lindsay > El Cerrito, CA > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
