Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
I’ve just been reading the latest replies in the end of the road thread. A few mentioned that cycling is just about exercise for them. I thought I’d start a thread where you can post how you feel when cycling.
When I cycle I enter this mental state of contentment and calmness. I can tune in to the physicality, the rhythm of the legs turning, the muscles working, heart beating, the changes in my breathing. I can appreciate the earthly aromas that permeate the air. I can listen to the rustling leaves. I can gaze up at Red Kites whistling above, and wonder what it’d be like to soar like that. I can feel the wind and rain on my skin and laugh. I can appreciate a cold crisp winters day with a crystal clear blue sky. I can appreciate the secret wold of riding at night and the badger and owl encounters. I can gaze at the stars and really see the Milky Way brilliantly bright in some of the dark skys I pass through. I can feel the warmth of the sun as we move into spring. I can feel satisfaction at climbing a hill without stopping, and gaze far into the distance, at a view I truly appreciate. I can laugh and whoop whilst stopping down the other side as fast as I dare.
I can feel alive and relaxed when not cocooned from Nature. I am in a moment, where time and thought, emotions and experience flow differently, in a pleasing and heightened way.
When I cycle I enter this mental state of contentment and calmness. I can tune in to the physicality, the rhythm of the legs turning, the muscles working, heart beating, the changes in my breathing. I can appreciate the earthly aromas that permeate the air. I can listen to the rustling leaves. I can gaze up at Red Kites whistling above, and wonder what it’d be like to soar like that. I can feel the wind and rain on my skin and laugh. I can appreciate a cold crisp winters day with a crystal clear blue sky. I can appreciate the secret wold of riding at night and the badger and owl encounters. I can gaze at the stars and really see the Milky Way brilliantly bright in some of the dark skys I pass through. I can feel the warmth of the sun as we move into spring. I can feel satisfaction at climbing a hill without stopping, and gaze far into the distance, at a view I truly appreciate. I can laugh and whoop whilst stopping down the other side as fast as I dare.
I can feel alive and relaxed when not cocooned from Nature. I am in a moment, where time and thought, emotions and experience flow differently, in a pleasing and heightened way.
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