Comments on: My Proudest Moment: High Water Mark, by Padraig http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/ It's like reality TV. Except it's real. And there's no TV. Fri, 04 Mar 2022 03:21:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Padraig http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/comment-page-1/#comment-516607 Padraig Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:44:06 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/#comment-516607 Thanks for the kind words everyone. Here's to hoping you each enjoy some revelations in your riding this year. Thanks for the kind words everyone. Here’s to hoping you each enjoy some revelations in your riding this year.

]]> By: a?va http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/comment-page-1/#comment-516605 a?va Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:05:54 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/#comment-516605 I like that line about developing and rebuilding. I assume Guest Publish Friday could well be magnificent. Every single tale this week has fed my appetite for cycling and for everyday life typically. I like that line about developing and rebuilding. I assume Guest Publish Friday could well be magnificent. Every single tale this week has fed my appetite for cycling and for everyday life typically.

]]> By: Amy http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/comment-page-1/#comment-516573 Amy Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:57:59 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/#comment-516573 Padraig, Thank you for sharing. How undeniably sweet it is to have a moment in time when the previous training and suffering all seems to finally pay off at a perfect time. Perhaps this is why all of us at all levels (including the slowpokes like me) ride--to have the chance to think: "Wow! I can't believe I just was able to do that!" Fatty--thanks for sharing all of these stories this week. Truly inspiring, all of them. Padraig,

Thank you for sharing. How undeniably sweet it is to have a moment in time when the previous training and suffering all seems to finally pay off at a perfect time. Perhaps this is why all of us at all levels (including the slowpokes like me) ride–to have the chance to think: “Wow! I can’t believe I just was able to do that!”

Fatty–thanks for sharing all of these stories this week. Truly inspiring, all of them.

]]> By: cece http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/comment-page-1/#comment-516563 cece Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:41:46 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/#comment-516563 Thanks Padraig! I changed it a bit to read "We all have unplumbed depths that we have yet to understand or achieve." I quoted you on my bog header. Cece Thanks Padraig! I changed it a bit to read “We all have unplumbed depths that we have yet to understand or achieve.” I quoted you on my bog header.
Cece

]]> By: Thatsrando http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/comment-page-1/#comment-516554 Thatsrando Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:38:46 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/#comment-516554 Hey nice post. I liked it because so many people can relate to it. It doesn't matter what level one is at when they have a great ride; what matters is they had a great ride for them. People told me this when I was a kid, but I didn't get it. Savor those memories. Joe P Ps, Fatty, you still need to bite on 200 miles to nowhere. Hey nice post. I liked it because so many people can relate to it. It doesn’t matter what level one is at when they have a great ride; what matters is they had a great ride for them. People told me this when I was a kid, but I didn’t get it.

Savor those memories.

Joe P

Ps, Fatty, you still need to bite on 200 miles to nowhere.

]]> By: Padraig http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/comment-page-1/#comment-516553 Padraig Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:37:16 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/#comment-516553 Onomastic: You, sir, have raced for sure and are an inspiration. If I can outride my son even for a few meters following my 60th birthday, I may find I've got a new proudest moment on the bike. Cece: Thanks much! You certainly have some depths of your own by pulling off that kind of mileage while needing surgery. Yikes! By all means, quote away! Onomastic: You, sir, have raced for sure and are an inspiration. If I can outride my son even for a few meters following my 60th birthday, I may find I’ve got a new proudest moment on the bike.

Cece: Thanks much! You certainly have some depths of your own by pulling off that kind of mileage while needing surgery. Yikes! By all means, quote away!

]]> By: cece http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/comment-page-1/#comment-516552 cece Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:15:43 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/#comment-516552 What a great post! Thanks! I loved your last line.... "we all have unplumbed depths, that I’ve yet to understand all I may achieve." What a great quote. I have caught glimpses of what I can accomplish...like ride 71 miles in Lake Tahoe with a shoulder that needed surgery! ...but I am s till discovering my untapped potential...so I love your quote. I may put it on my blog, if I may! Cece What a great post! Thanks! I loved your last line….
“we all have unplumbed depths, that I’ve yet to understand all I may achieve.” What a great quote. I have caught glimpses of what I can accomplish…like ride 71 miles in Lake Tahoe with a shoulder that needed surgery! …but I am s till discovering my untapped potential…so I love your quote. I may put it on my blog, if I may!
Cece

]]> By: Onomastic http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/comment-page-1/#comment-516550 Onomastic Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:33:53 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/#comment-516550 Thank you Padraig. This connected for me in many ways. I've never "won" any race. Heck, I've never entered any race, though I very occassinally beat my sons up a hill, if it's short enough and I'm sly enough and I bought the beers the night before. But, in my 60s, I still train, I do intervals, I keep track of rides and miles, I try to ride farther, climb faster, do more in a year, find new challenges. Not for any recognition by others, which I probably don't have the genes or the skill to garner anyway, but for how doing more than I perhaps thought I could makes me feel about myself. Pride. It doesn't come from how others feel about what you have done; it comes from how you feel about what you have done. A subtle fist pump, a soft "all right" spoken so only you can hear, and a warm feeling of accomplishment. As I suspect you felt when you sped by the radar domes. Thank you Padraig. This connected for me in many ways.

I’ve never “won” any race. Heck, I’ve never entered any race, though I very occassinally beat my sons up a hill, if it’s short enough and I’m sly enough and I bought the beers the night before. But, in my 60s, I still train, I do intervals, I keep track of rides and miles, I try to ride farther, climb faster, do more in a year, find new challenges. Not for any recognition by others, which I probably don’t have the genes or the skill to garner anyway, but for how doing more than I perhaps thought I could makes me feel about myself.

Pride. It doesn’t come from how others feel about what you have done; it comes from how you feel about what you have done. A subtle fist pump, a soft “all right” spoken so only you can hear, and a warm feeling of accomplishment. As I suspect you felt when you sped by the radar domes.

]]> By: Padraig http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/comment-page-1/#comment-516549 Padraig Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:55:53 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/#comment-516549 Nic: I'm not man enough to do that climb on a daily basis. You're made of stern stuff. NYC Carlos: Here's to hoping you find plenty of inspiration for your riding. DjMont: Point taken. I thought it might be helpful to show my thinking and I'll admit it was fun to re-live those moments in my head; I don't do that too often. Hautacam: Thanks much, thought I gotta be honest and say the years I spent racing are a fraction of what many others put in, and I'm not even talking PROs. Cheers to your riding! Mark J: No offense at all. It's my sincere hope to connect with readers any time I write and I'm just bummed this one didn't work for you. Hopefully something else I write will; this was decidedly out of my normal subject matter. Debi: Thanks for the kind words. I can assure you, if you keep climbing, you'll get faster. Mateo: No chain indeed. Here's to you having one soon. Now, if I could just find half that form this summer! Nic: I’m not man enough to do that climb on a daily basis. You’re made of stern stuff.

NYC Carlos: Here’s to hoping you find plenty of inspiration for your riding.

DjMont: Point taken. I thought it might be helpful to show my thinking and I’ll admit it was fun to re-live those moments in my head; I don’t do that too often.

Hautacam: Thanks much, thought I gotta be honest and say the years I spent racing are a fraction of what many others put in, and I’m not even talking PROs. Cheers to your riding!

Mark J: No offense at all. It’s my sincere hope to connect with readers any time I write and I’m just bummed this one didn’t work for you. Hopefully something else I write will; this was decidedly out of my normal subject matter.

Debi: Thanks for the kind words. I can assure you, if you keep climbing, you’ll get faster.

Mateo: No chain indeed. Here’s to you having one soon.

Now, if I could just find half that form this summer!

]]> By: mateo http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/comment-page-1/#comment-516548 mateo Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:10:28 +0000 http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/03/18/my-proudest-moment-high-water-mark-by-padraig/#comment-516548 as George Hincapie has said, that was a "no chain" ride, which are too few and far between. One of those rides where it just flows and you feel as if the chain is not working against you...sweet feeling, I can understand why you would pick that memory. Appreciate your story Padraig, and you site, RKP, always enjoy to read your posts. as George Hincapie has said, that was a “no chain” ride, which are too few and far between. One of those rides where it just flows and you feel as if the chain is not working against you…sweet feeling, I can understand why you would pick that memory. Appreciate your story Padraig, and you site, RKP, always enjoy to read your posts.

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