Scotland : Edinburgh & Lothians CC Ecosse ride and/or RV ride - 9 November
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Me neither - and I've ridden it once before ....Think you tagged the wrong personNobody told me the route would be so hilly
My point is that you kept at it, rode the whole way and didn't quit.
Bonkers, that
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Col5632
Guru
- Location
- Cowdenbeath
Me neither - and I've ridden it once before ....
Bonkers, that
I think if somebody could have picked me up and took me home i would have took that option, not been that tired since we done the newburgh route
Col5632
Guru
- Location
- Cowdenbeath
My - and the experience of seasoned audaxers - is that your mind will give up before your legs will.
As long as you have that "I hate/ don't/ won't giving/e up" mind-set
, you will make it. When I packed on the Snow Roads (out of time half way through, last on the road etc) after my head told me I wasn't going to make it, my legs kept going for another 10 mins, until I came to an 'upwardly-inclined piece of road' (only 10% 
), then the legs agreed with the mind and that was it. 
How I got back to Kirrie is a tale for another time ....
(it gets better and better with more ... 'lubrication' 
)
As long as you have that "I hate/ don't/ won't giving/e up" mind-set
, you will make it. When I packed on the Snow Roads (out of time half way through, last on the road etc) after my head told me I wasn't going to make it, my legs kept going for another 10 mins, until I came to an 'upwardly-inclined piece of road' (only 10% ), then the legs agreed with the mind and that was it. How I got back to Kirrie is a tale for another time ....
(it gets better and better with more ... 'lubrication' )glasgowjim
Über Member
My - and the experience of seasoned audaxers - is that your mind will give up before your legs will.
As long as you have that "I hate/ don't/ won't giving/e up" mind-set
How I got back to Kirrie is a tale for another time ....
Sometimes both go together for me, as the past season shows.
Hi Jim, where've you been hiding? Good to see you back on CC, will you join us for the next RV ride?T
glasgowjim
Über Member
Hi T,
T
Yes i still lurk on here now and then. I had planned on attending the most recent CC Ecosse meet but life got in the way again. I moved into a new house a few months back and it has seriously curtailed my cycling activity. I've been doing the odd Audax here and there but nothing in the last few months to speak of and i've only managed a measly 7000 or so miles this year
which is poor for me. I'll do my utmost to attend the next event though, as it would be good to catch up with old friends and get back on the bike. Say hi to HJ for me Hi @glasgowjim - @HJ says hi back! Looking forward to seeing you some time soon then 
, your 7000 miles makes my 5400k look quite measly 
Hope the new house is fun, too, assume you are doing lots of DIY?
T
, your 7000 miles makes my 5400k look quite measly Hope the new house is fun, too, assume you are doing lots of DIY?T
It goes without saying that I'm not an experienced audaxer, but as @Gee_Dee can attest to, many of my more "interesting" misadventures have come around as a direct result of the opposite, combined with an insufficient bailout option. My mind says "KEEP GOING IT'LL BE FINE" then either my legs or my metabolism suddenly go "NOPE!" and I'm usually miles from anywhere when this happens
From a purely motivational point of view, once your head goes down, if you have an easy way out, it's game over, regardless of how much physical strength you have left. I get round this by not leaving myself easy ways out.
This is probably why I've encountered so many unpleasant demotivated slogs in my time, and it means that my epitaph will probably be "he died how he lived, by being bloody stupid, stubborn, and ill-prepared"
Fubar
Legendary Member
It goes without saying that I'm not an experienced audaxer, but as @Gee_Dee can attest to, many of my more "interesting" misadventures have come around as a direct result of the opposite, combined with an insufficient bailout option. My mind says "KEEP GOING IT'LL BE FINE" then either my legs or my metabolism suddenly go "NOPE!" and I'm usually miles from anywhere when this happens
From a purely motivational point of view, once your head goes down, if you have an easy way out, it's game over, regardless of how much physical strength you have left. I get round this by not leaving myself easy ways out.
This is probably why I've encountered so many unpleasant demotivated slogs in my time, and it means that my epitaph will probably be "he died how he lived, by being bloody stupid, stubborn, and ill-prepared"
And My God he was a miserable git too....
"He was a real hard man. NutsIt goes without saying that I'm not an experienced audaxer, but as @Gee_Dee can attest to, many of my more "interesting" misadventures have come around as a direct result of the opposite, combined with an insufficient bailout option. My mind says "KEEP GOING IT'LL BE FINE" then either my legs or my metabolism suddenly go "NOPE!" and I'm usually miles from anywhere when this happens
From a purely motivational point of view, once your head goes down, if you have an easy way out, it's game over, regardless of how much physical strength you have left. I get round this by not leaving myself easy ways out.
This is probably why I've encountered so many unpleasant demotivated slogs in my time, and it means that my epitaph will probably be "he died how he lived, by being bloody stupid, stubborn, and ill-prepared"
but hard. We respected his riding - but he was nuts, wasn't he ?"
Kevin Alexander
Veteran
Bollocks, missed this but think I seen you when you were cycling up from Gorebridge to the Retreat (Bonnyrigg)
