PERSEVERANCE - continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition..... When I reached the age of 50 or so, I started riding bikes. Had a thin tire, polychrome SCHWIN road bike and an ol TREK mountain bike. Id ride the Schwin to work and back, 8 mile round trip.... then hop on my Trek in the evening and ride single track trails in the adobe hills till dark. On weekends, Id put 50 to 100 miles on the Schwin. I also backpacked into the canyons of Utah staying 3 to 5 days at a time...... All this in hopes of evading the onslaught of the aging process. I kept this up for a year or so, but as time kept tacking on age an my ol bones started to sound like someone poppin bubble wrap when I rose in the early morn, I thought Id continue carryin on with carryin on. But the bikes started gainin weight an a slowin me down.... so I bought a lighter road bike... a GIANT carbon fiber frame with a better gear cassette. The mountain bike got so it was difficult for it to climb any sort of incline... I figured the poor ol thing was gettin old an a gainin some weight..... so I put it out to pasture an quit mountain bikin. I rode my GIANT on level ground but then a strange phenomenon occurred.... the level ground begin to go uphill as I left the house and was uphill as I returned... even in the lowest gear I could find it became difficult to go up the block and back. So perseverance of preventing the advance of aging took a back seat to the operation of the lever on my recliner and the long hikes to the fridge and bathroom. Has anyone but me noticed that gravity is gettin stronger an creatin more drag on feet an a raisin the ol body out of bed in the mornin?????
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 14:02:13 +0000
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