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Small Failures
Dec. 10th, 2008 09:31 amI set my alarm clock for 4:30 this morning, with the intention of getting up and putting in another 20k or so on the ergometer. When the time came, I couldn't get myself to do it. I think I'm fighting off another cold, and I just couldn't convince myself to go and sit on a rowing machine for an hour or two.
In the long run, it will be okay. There is still enough time left to complete the challenge, and it is a challenge, after all.
I also have only 260 miles to go on my bicycle before I reach 5,000 miles, which somehow amazes me, but I think I'll make it. Put into different terms, 5,000 would be the distance traveled by somebody who commutes 10 miles by bicycle to work every day (and 10 miles back) for 50 weeks. Very little of my mileage is actually commuting to school, though.
Part of what makes the 5000-mile milestone interesting is that it isn't really comparable to anything else. It's the first full year that I have had an odometer on the Jolly Roger, for instance, so I can't compare it to previous years of riding (all of that unknown mileage!). It doesn't include or compare to mileage on Spud (my fancy road bike), because Spud lacks an odometer. [Spud has also been accumulating a fine layer of dust lately.] And the Jolly Roger is a pretty unique bicycle, so it doesn't really compare to the distances traveled by other people on other bicycles. And I'm not necessarily trying to get faster on my bicycle, either.
This weekend I think I'll go on some longer rides by myself. I haven't really had the freedom to go on such rides for a while, and I'm hoping that it will give me a chance to quietly think (in Steven Yazzie's Velocity is Reflection sort of way). We shall see.
In the long run, it will be okay. There is still enough time left to complete the challenge, and it is a challenge, after all.
I also have only 260 miles to go on my bicycle before I reach 5,000 miles, which somehow amazes me, but I think I'll make it. Put into different terms, 5,000 would be the distance traveled by somebody who commutes 10 miles by bicycle to work every day (and 10 miles back) for 50 weeks. Very little of my mileage is actually commuting to school, though.
Part of what makes the 5000-mile milestone interesting is that it isn't really comparable to anything else. It's the first full year that I have had an odometer on the Jolly Roger, for instance, so I can't compare it to previous years of riding (all of that unknown mileage!). It doesn't include or compare to mileage on Spud (my fancy road bike), because Spud lacks an odometer. [Spud has also been accumulating a fine layer of dust lately.] And the Jolly Roger is a pretty unique bicycle, so it doesn't really compare to the distances traveled by other people on other bicycles. And I'm not necessarily trying to get faster on my bicycle, either.
This weekend I think I'll go on some longer rides by myself. I haven't really had the freedom to go on such rides for a while, and I'm hoping that it will give me a chance to quietly think (in Steven Yazzie's Velocity is Reflection sort of way). We shall see.
