:It comes from nowhere… to ride

January 11th, 2012 | No Comments » |

If riding your bike is the *thing* you do, then you’ll know this feeling.

It’s not uncommon, in your riding ‘career’, to have time off. Sometimes it’s forced, sometimes it’s by choice. Sometimes it’s for a lot longer than you thought it might be.

Then the time comes, for whatever reason, and you climb back on your bike. And it hurts. Bad. In reflection though you realise 70% of the hurt is in your head, the hurt pride and the difference of where you left your bike mind and the current reality.

Realising this reality is the crux. You either push through it, or you slip, miss the hold and fall back down.

Sometimes it takes several leaps to make that hold but once you have it, you can push past it. That’s when ‘it’ comes.

From nowhere ‘it’ returns. Unexpected. Without any former warning.

‘It’ is the day when you roll out the door and you have the ride where the gap between where you left your mind and the current reality is bridged. It’s not quite as it was, the alignment is not perfect but it’s close enough and you realise why you ride a bike and how it makes you feel.

It’s the ride you have to have, otherwise you are lost in the abyss. Once you have it though, the burn returns and all you want to do is ride.

 

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