If you find yourself taking “going hard” and efficiency and performance too seriously, then on any outing you make, take along a little stove, a little cup, kettle and leaf, a briar pipe and what ya like, a book of verse, and a watercolor set.
And use em.
No matter if you’re blasting along, at some point, make yourself stop, find a place with a view, and use what ya brung.
That’ll teach ya.
It’s all relative.
Except life.
Coz our life is our only possible contact point with the absolute, the divine, wholeness. Any other standard is partial and will let you down. What’s good for biking may well not be good for life, but the converse is always true. What’s good for life is always good for biking to the extent that biking is good. See? Make sense?
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A fellow bike rider says “I take an apple along on nearly every road ride I do these days. Stop and sit in a park for a bit and crunch an apple and it’s hard to worry too much about average speed…” He’s on the right track!
