jjae:

Some of my favorites:

• Bonking so bad you don’t think you’ll be able to make it home.
• Discovering how a convenience-store Coke can resurrect the dead.
• You’re on the bike for the fifth straight day, and your butt doesn’t hurt.
• You try bibs and realize you can never go back to shorts.
• You blow a snot rocket without hitting your shoulder or leg—or the rider behind you.
• You notice that someone else has the chain grease on his right calf.
• You got dropped, you flatted, bonked, got turned around—and when you got home you said you had a great ride.
• Cleaning the cassette with your old toothbrush.
• Wrapping your bar tape so the handlebar plug stays in and no bare bar shows at the tricky bend at the brake hood.
• Crashing and immediately asking, “How’s my bike?”
• Explicating your training in exquisite detail on a blog, then realizing nobody cares.
• Outsprinting a crazed dog.
• Riding down a trail you couldn’t safely walk.
• Feeling superstrong, then turning around for the ride back and realizing you had a tailwind.
• Wondering if cycling matters too much.
• Not caring if it does.