When I grow up....
...I want to be a pro cyclist.
I've been reading this blog a bit lately - thanks to a certain tall friend who's been influential in my development as a roadie. It's actually a great blog, and I've found it very interesting, particularly the posts about PROs.
No doubt we'd all like to think that we 'have what it takes' in whatever thing we're into, but comments like " They ride casually out to their training grounds nice and easy. There’s often a coffee stop in there somewhere" make it sound so easy. Well, today, I was on a training ride for my upcoming CX debut, and rather than a coffee shop, I rode nice and easily out to a Taiwanese restaurant for lunch. I'm so pro...
Here's what I went there for - the $6.50 lunch set. Yum.
And here's my bike looking all badass outside the restaurant.
While eating I remembered the post on CyclingTips about Pros, and realised that in my current job I spend a goodly amount of time living the life (re:summer) - not much to do but ride somewhere with something delicious along the way or as the destination, and I realized that I quite like it. I'd love to do it full time, and I'm sure it's just as easy as I've just made it sound...one thing that IS hard however is riding home on the full, full stomach...I'll have to train more on that area before I turn PRO...
I've been reading this blog a bit lately - thanks to a certain tall friend who's been influential in my development as a roadie. It's actually a great blog, and I've found it very interesting, particularly the posts about PROs.
No doubt we'd all like to think that we 'have what it takes' in whatever thing we're into, but comments like " They ride casually out to their training grounds nice and easy. There’s often a coffee stop in there somewhere" make it sound so easy. Well, today, I was on a training ride for my upcoming CX debut, and rather than a coffee shop, I rode nice and easily out to a Taiwanese restaurant for lunch. I'm so pro...
Here's what I went there for - the $6.50 lunch set. Yum.
And here's my bike looking all badass outside the restaurant.While eating I remembered the post on CyclingTips about Pros, and realised that in my current job I spend a goodly amount of time living the life (re:summer) - not much to do but ride somewhere with something delicious along the way or as the destination, and I realized that I quite like it. I'd love to do it full time, and I'm sure it's just as easy as I've just made it sound...one thing that IS hard however is riding home on the full, full stomach...I'll have to train more on that area before I turn PRO...
posted by kurisu at 7:42 PM
1 Comments:
KuRisU,
Some of roadies in Osaka (not me) do their 160km training from city to Chinese restaurant at the heart of mountain town Dorogawa and called it chuka-ren.
I already have good motivation to ride back in your town to have another the $6.50 lunch set, yep, I'm checken, too!
-Aki
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