Do you ever get lazy?

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I got really, really lazy. I think it was because I was sick for a
while, then the weather was terrible, then I was just too busy. Today's
a perfect day to go out, I have nothing else to do, need the exercise,
and I still don't feel much like going.
That ever happen to anyone else here? What do you do to get yourself
remotivated?

Happens to everyone. Make plans to meet up with someone else. Chances
are you won't be so lazy when you have to meet someone else.
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Alex

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:13:04 -0600, Tom Sherman
wrote:

You could always find another activity, such as engaging in long,
contentious flame wars on cycling Usenet groups.

Are helmet wearers naturally lazier than those who don't wear helmets,
or the other way around?

(With an inch of rain coming down in 20-25 mph gusts today, I was a
happy cager. Bicycle flame wars are underrated!)

Email address works as is.

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:20:55 -0500, "Matt O'Toole" wrote:

Claire Petersky wrote:

I concur with both of these, plus BB -- first you ride your bike,
then your faith will be restored. Don't wait for faith first. How
about setting your bike clothes out the night before, so that when
you wake up, the first thing you do is put them on? Then you have no
choice but to ride.

Good point. One thing I've noticed -- no matter how unmotivated I feel before
riding, it vanishes within a minute of being on the bike. My whole mood does a
180 degree turnaround.

Takes me a little longer, but I'm old.

About 10 minutes in, I start wondering why I didn't get out earlier.

Ron

Get a fixed gear, ride 30-45 minutes, stay on flat ground, stop at coffee
shops, enjoy the day.

Peter Chisholm
Vecchio's Bicicletteria
1833 Pearl St.
Boulder, CO, 80302
(303)440-3535
http://www.vecchios.com
"Ruote convenzionali costruite eccezionalmente bene"

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In article . com,
Marvin wrote:

The alternative will probably be to go back to fiddling with computers
as a living and bikes as a hobby, but I wondered how many people had
successfully made a living from their hobby without having the soul
ground out of them in the process.


_ Very few. You have to look at what people really do to make
money, verses what they do to have fun. For most sport related
jobs you end up either teaching or doing the ugly stuff that
the people having fun don't want to do ( i.e. wrenching ).

_ Neither of these generally has much to do with why you like
sport X in the first place. Teaching sports can be fun and
rewarding but it's an entirely different experience than
the sport itself.

_ I think for most people that love a sport working in a
shop that sells gear for that sport is a kind of fine
torture. All you really do is stand around inside
talking about stuff, you don't actually do anything.

_ As far as owning the shop goes, you have to like running a
small business much more than the particular sport since that's
what you'll spend most of your time doing if you want it to
succeed ( many don't ). In general, sport based towns are short
on jobs and one way to pay the rent is to sell gear to vistors.

_ There are lot's of people perfectly happy doing these
jobs, a lot are fairly miserable as well. I think it
pays to have your eyes open and see what people really
do, not what toys they are surrounded by. In my own
case I spent a couple years in my 20's flailing about
and realized that a large part of what makes hobbies
fun is anticipation and a break from the routine.
A hobby that you turn into a routine is still just
a routine.

_ Booker C. Bense

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