There’s no shame.
But it did hurt my pride.
A lot.
There is no truth in ‘pride goeth before a fall’ on this day.
Because I stopped. Hung my head when I put my foot down, and let my pride fall.
Before I fell over.
Wise decision.
But. It. Hurt.
There’s no shame.
But it did hurt my pride.
A lot.
There is no truth in ‘pride goeth before a fall’ on this day.
Because I stopped. Hung my head when I put my foot down, and let my pride fall.
Before I fell over.
Wise decision.
But. It. Hurt.
The big decision is “What are you going to do about it?”
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🙂 Well, I can ride as long as I want. Hills are not my friends since I don’t ride them any more…. so….. ride more hills or just go for long rides. 🙂
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Very sensible woman ….. sometimes pride has a very high price … love you drawing.
I suppose it MR B in close to the top.
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Thanks Viveka. It’s the first time in 14 years I had to stop on a hill. A few times. I have not ridden hills in so very long and I didn’t have the right gears. But I thought I could power up them. And I was so very wrong. 🙂 And it was not Mr. Brown but a friend who rode the charity ride with me. 😉 She powered through the hills non stop!
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My workout brought me to my knees on more than one occasion yesterday! The pride is that we’re doing it anyway! Go Chatems!
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Thanks Huck! My very tender and bruised ego needed that! 🙂
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I’m glad it helped!
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🙂
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You are a snickle fritz!
I believe it was you who signed up for the ride, encouraged as many others ..as many who would listen, did not give up and helped a fellow rider who fell!
You are a true rider!
When are we doing 100… The flat one!
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When do you WANT to do the 100 miler?
And I have never been a snickle fritz before. I think I kind of like it. 😉
Oh peshaw. But thank you.
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Snickle fritz? Peshaw? Are you ladies turning into who-knows-what?!
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Snickle fritz Koji. Come on. Every one knows what that is! 😉
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You know that English is (technically) my second language, my Queen… so help out one of your lowly vassals here… 🙂
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Koji, even if English is your second language you master it quite well and need no assistance from me. 😉
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You may have had to stop this time. You may have not had to have stopped the previous time….*shrugs* … you are riding…you are trying that hill…and in my head, it did not defeat you. Compared to 90% of others…. you still rock. And in my head…rock big time nod nods.
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Aw Katie….thank you. 🙂 These are the important things. It did not defeat me. I continued on. And I will continue on. 🙂 Thank you Irish K.
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So now you can’t do it all like you used to before the big Pride Drop. The shock of it is, maybe you need to slow down a w-e-e bit. Are your knees the problem?
For everything, there is a time–and not. *rolls eyes*
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Ah. So true. The knees weren’t the problem. I had not been riding the road, the hills, and I didn’t have the same bike I had ridden before when riding hills. Not enough gears, not enough training, too much ice cream…. 😉
It truly was not the time on Saturday for THAT hill! 🙂
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Last time I rode my bike, I fell down and got a boo boo. And, it required someone walking by to help get the bike off from on top of me. Not a happy occasion. 😉
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I’ve had a few unhappy occasions on a bike. 😉 This was certainly not the worst of them.
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Colleen, My bike is hanging from it’s rims in my garage, I haven’t found a basket big enough for my machine. I had pride drop a tab bit ago. Hang in there, there are plenty of beautiful level places to ride. — Take care, Bill
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I plan on looking upon some of those beautiful flat places in a few weeks. 😉 Thanks Bill! 🙂
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Your art piece… Wunderbar! And humbleness arises from pride!
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This is true. I am quite humbled by my pause on the hill. 😉
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For me it is the inability to pump iron like I used to. Lifting weights with varying degrees of intensity has always been part of my life. But for me it is not a matter of pride. I have come to understand that it is not me at all. Because of global warming 100 pounds on the bar weighs 3 times as much as it did 30 years ago. That’s the answer.
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I like how you think Carl. God bless you for making sense of all of this.
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I will still be your friend even if you can’t ride your bike up a hill!
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You are a good friend indeed. 🙂
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