slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Yes, but you only get really serious when you pluck up the courage to wear it.
When did you realize you were getting serious about this cycling lark?
- Thread starter cyberknight
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subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
when i saw the red roadbike in decathlon and thought hmmm i don't need another bike but it would be nice to have one
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
I hope I never become a serious cyclist.
I like to think I'm keen.
'Serious' makes me think of people who know the colour of their handlebar tape... It's just a bicycle.
Grubby white on the roadbike , black btwin grips on the MTB
endoman
Senior Member
- Location
- Chesterfield
when I entered the Etape.
SquareDaff
Über Member
- Location
- Doncaster, South Yorkshire
When there was a 60mph gale outside and it was hammering down with rain and I still didn't even consider using the car!
BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
- Location
- Selly Oak, Birmingham
I didn't.
But looking back, deciding to go out on a Saturday run, buying my first pair of cycling shorts, entering my first Sportive, finishing it in a good time and in a good condition, starting running and not getting the same buzz, and coming back from a 40 mile short ride to find my wife wondering why I'd been out for 3 hours are all indications that I missed.
But looking back, deciding to go out on a Saturday run, buying my first pair of cycling shorts, entering my first Sportive, finishing it in a good time and in a good condition, starting running and not getting the same buzz, and coming back from a 40 mile short ride to find my wife wondering why I'd been out for 3 hours are all indications that I missed.
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
April 2004. I thought my first bike commute to work at a new job was too short (5 km) and that the (brand new) bso wasn't quick/good enough and needed replacing.
It's just a bicycle.
What?!!!!!
I had a bit of an epiphany this last weekend, as I was laying plans for next cyclocross season, and realised how effortlessly in my mind I had made the commitment to train 15 hours per week for the next 8 months, buy a new race bike (2k+), buy three new wheelsets (2k+) and enter the National Trophy Series in addition to the London League, with all the time and travel commitments that entails. Yeah, that feels fairly serious.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Blasphemy - a racing bike is a beautiful machine, that only suitably serious cyclists should be allowed to mount!I hope I never become a serious cyclist.
I like to think I'm keen.
'Serious' makes me think of people who know the colour of their handlebar tape... It's just a bicycle.
I take myself and my cycling extremely seriously, as you can see from this picture of my bike ...
TheSandwichMonster
Junior Senior
- Location
- Devon, UK
Not quite as bad as that, but getting close.
I was serious about MTB'ing in my teens - up to and including racing up to a national level sometimes. Then uni/alcohol/girls came along and exercise got boring. Fast forward a number of years, lost some weight, got a new job and my employer offered C2W. I decided on getting a road bike as I'd fancied trying one out for a while. Endomondo shows that between getting the bike in August last year and then end of my first sportive at the start of October, I put in over 800 miles. That's going from my first, near-vomit-inducing 26 miles, to putting in a sub 4h 100km effort. I even lost the best part of 2 stone along the way.
Since then, I've made plans to take part in two 100 mile sportives a week apart in June this year. They're at opposite ends of the country, but I genuinely thought nothing of planning the week inbetween to ride from one to the other, to make it up to about 600 miles in 7 days. I've joined BC, obtained my provisional race licence, with the aim that I'll take my new-found fitness and try out racing towards the end of the year.
Since the start of 2012, I've stopped drinking nearly all alcohol, cut carbs and started a training plan. I've started reading about (and partially understood) terms like ATL, CTL, TRIMP and TSS. I've lost another half-stone nearly. I get up at 5:30 most weekday mornings to ensure that I can get an hour on the turbo before I go to work. If I miss a session I get annoyed at myself for being lazy. I get frustrated when I don't know the best way to train, or if I don't get the results I want, or because I can't afford a power meter. I've logged ~150 miles (indoor and out) since the 2nd of January and I don't think it's enough.
In short... I got serious about cycling quite a while back. Now I'd say that I'm borderline obsessive!
