Comments on: Perfectly Good Excuses

By: Fuzzy

Fuzzy — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:24:10 +0000

Fatty, forget the excuses. You Sir are a cycling and blogging leg end (or should that be legend?). You, like me, should be on the receiving end of those incredulous stares from your co workers on your arrival at the office, after riding in through the worst weather imaginable-

Torrential downpour? Ha! I laugh in the face of torrential downpours. It is only water!

Driving snow? Ha! (See above but insert frozen in front of water).

Howling gales/ Tornados? Ha! Wind is a cyclist’s enemy but I laugh in the face of the enemy.

We Sir are MAD and have a reputation to uphold.

Carry On!

Luv ‘n Stuff,

Fuzzy from tjhe UK.

By: Zed

Zed — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:42:48 +0000

Basedowian or addisonian overtraining?

By: MikeL

MikeL — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:59:12 +0000

How about ” I did not feel like riding “. It does not matter what the weather is or our physical condition or mental status. There are just days like that. Just do not use it too many days in a row.

By: MrDaveyGie

MrDaveyGie — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:33:03 +0000

Too funny!!! I can relate, Once, or umm maybe twice on a scheduled long ride, that turned into a high wind, and/or icy, unsually low energy ride, I thought about a letting the air out of my tire and calling for ride and saying my patch failed.
:-)

By: MattC

MattC — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:32:05 +0000

I find that it’s physically impossible for me to to ‘overtrain’, becasue for that to be so would insinuate that at some point in time I was actually IN training.

Well, maybe there is this…the new training program that a bunch of us are currently doing…the one to NOT do an Ironman. That kind of intensive training is pretty hard to overdo I’ve found out…unless I were to start getting bedsores (couchsores?).

By: Colorado Herbie

Colorado Herbie — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:14:45 +0000

Get a puppy! We have a new puppy right now so I have to go home at noon and let him out.

By: Bicycle Bill

Bicycle Bill — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:35:08 +0000

While it’s impossible for most of us to overtrain, we can still overdo it. Just say, “I overdid it yesterday, so I’m taking a rest day.”

The beauty of it is that you don’t have to say what it is that you overdid; let ‘em make their own assumptions/draw their own conclusions.

[i][b]-”BB”-[/b][/i]

By: MattC

MattC — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:01:33 +0000

Wow Darrell…those are pretty good excuses! You are obviously a seasoned PRO in this regard…my hat’s off to you. Though for my own excuses, I prefer a much simpler approach, cuz I’d never remember yours (or I’d get all them confused with each other and telegraph that it is just an excuse). I’m more of keep it simple….’my bike is broke’ kind’a guy. Apparently my bike is broke a LOT…especially in Dec, Jan and Feb. And sometimes in Nov and March too. Oh…and April..definatly April. And October. That’s about it…other than those times, I’m a ridin’ madman!

By: The Chort

The Chort — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:34:17 +0000

Carbon emissions are working Randy. 53 degrees today in Poughkeepsie, NY.

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:18:49 +0000

You drove to work out of sympathy for your brethren and sisteren in PA, NJ and NY who have suffered through their snowiest Winter in recorded history, and that your carbon emissions might warm things up for them out there