Has A Bike Ride Ever Made You Cry ?

[Damaged Hero]

This will be a little embarrassing , but after completing my first ever Sportive and my longest ride distance of 85 miles I sat down in the cafe to call my Dad just to let him know I had got back safe and I had to cut the call short as I started to get upset.

What the Hell Happened ?

I managed to compose myself,and I don't think anybody noticed but I felt real stupid.Even driving home I had tears streaming down my face.

A friend told me it could have just been adrenaline,Would love to know if this has ever happend to anybody else ?

 

[Herr-B]

Got my first one in May, I'll let you know then. But I'm hoping not to.

 

[Tommy2]

I've been on the verge of tears before, I then discovered padded shorts

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Out of the saddle when a foot slips and that top tube is encountered. That brings tears to eyes.......

 

[Sara_H]

I cried when I passed the finish line at the London to Brighton, but I always cry when I cross a finish line - don't know why!

 

[TheDoctor]

Hours of plodding into a head wind have reduced me to tears a few times.
20 miles, all of it in bottom gear. 3-and-a-half sodding hours, and I cursed every single second of it.
That evening we attempted to drain the EU Wine Lake...

 

[coffeejo]

Out of the saddle when a foot slips and that top tube is encountered. That brings tears to eyes.......

Even when you're of the XX chromosome gang

 

[postman]

Many many years ago.The Great Yorkshire Bike Ride,when it finished in Scarborough.Only a few hundred did it in those days.My first charity ride.,i was so new to cycling i wore a baseball cap.
So i finish on Marine Drive to the cheers of a young lad in a wheelchair,the baseball cap which was a beauty came off and i planted it on his head,then i turned away and had a few tears.
Nothing to be ashamed of.
Only two weeks ago i rewatched the final episode of M A S H i shed a few then.

 

[Cycling Dan]

Out of the saddle when a foot slips and that top tube is encountered. That brings tears to eyes.......

oh how I've done that before. Good thing my camera's footage can be deleted. Random person came to check if I was ok as I was at the side of the road, I dont think they seen what happened. I said "just waiting for a mate" to save the embarrassment.

 

[TVC]

Man up the lot of you.

 

[TheDoctor]

Man up the lot of you.

What, even Coffeejo?

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

After wrecking both knees, enduring a solid year of pain, physio and feeling certain I wouldn't ride again, then another year of runs round the estate, I rode 5 miles without pain. When I got home I was laughing with relief and crying at the same time.

 

[ColinJ]

I shed a few tears when I was out on the local hills on a beautiful sunny autumnal mountain bike ride after getting a call from my sister to tell me that our dad had died.

I suspect that I might get a little emotional on my first forum ride back from illness. At the rate that things are going, it might be after 12-18 months off the bike. (It's already been 8 months, and I am nowhere near well enough to cycle again yet.)

 

[RWright]

I might have cried if I had scratched my Garmin 800 the last time I fell. I haven't been riding or training long enough to compete in something I would cry over. I normally go the other way when I accomplish something special to me, smile and get happy but I have never had the mindset of an endurance athlete, which I am not.

 

[fossyant]

Not me, but on a ride we did one winter in the club, the wind and conditions were terrible climbing Axe Edge coming towards Buxton to come home, still over 20 miles. One of the younger lads who was always full of bull poo , cracked, and was in tears by the top as we all grovelled along. Wasn't great, but been in worse. Riding at less than 5 mph out of the saddle just to get up and over the last bit of the Snake Pass before coming into Glossop was hard. We really should have thought that riding over the top of Woodhead at nearly 45 degrees to the road, followed by a descent where we passed cars rather easily at over 55 mph should have been a warning. Ah youth......