Motivate me!!

miss notax

I am riding tonight - the first time since I scared myself stupid at Brechfa and my first ride in over a month :oops:

I'm all for positive thinking blah blah blah, but I can't help thinking that I am going to Little Miss Slow for the night :evil: And probably Little Miss Feeble too....

Any inspiring thoughts, apart from 'Get a bloody grip woman'?

SpinningJenny

I reckon you'll feel better once you've got out there - it doesn't matter if you're slow and/or feeble. Next time, you'll be better.

h, and think of me, stuck on a train until 7.30pm on my way home... I would give ANYTHING to have time on my bike tonight!

Good luck

SleepyLea

My Mantra - Its better to regret something you have done, then something you haven't

If your slow push harder only if you feel comfortable, and if you dont, then why worry, you got back up on the bike, and thats a big first step. 8)

Report back how it goes yup??

miss notax

SpinningJenny wrote:

I reckon you'll feel better once you've got out there - it doesn't matter if you're slow and/or feeble.

True. But I like to give the others a run for their money....

Hey ho - you're right - I just need to get out there don't I !

miss notax

SleepyLea wrote:

My Mantra - Its better to regret something you have done, then something you haven't

If your slow push harder only if you feel comfortable, and if you dont, then why worry, you got back up on the bike, and thats a big first step. 8)

Report back how it goes yup??

Will do

And my mantra is very similar!

thighsofsteel

You're doing the right thing by just getting back out there - you might be a bit shaky at first but i'm sure you'll be fine once you get going! No pain no gian and all that!

You go girl...!! (in a cheesy American kinda way...!)

SleepyLea

Oooh did anyone see that shiny star fly off Thighs teeth?! Oooh I think I am blind!!!

thighsofsteel

LOL! It's working for an American company that does it to me... I'm surrounded by "aaaawwwwesome" and "good jaaaaarb".....

miss notax

I'm still waiting for the high five personally

thighsofsteel

You only get a 'virtual' high 5 if you go out there tonight and kick some butt...!

SpinningJenny

Mrs DW might have something to say about all these comments concerning our cousins over the pond...

:twisted:

such a stirrer.......

SleepyLea

Hmm, I used to work for an american sales company, and we had mrnig power meetings, music pumping, people WOOPing far too loudly for 8.30am... New starters were welcomed with cheers. Needless to say I didnt last very long!!!

:twisted: Ooh I sussing you out SJ!!!!

Ditch Witch

Huh, I had to listen to the Americans do this and Americans do that crap at work today.

Really? ALL 300 MILLION OF US?????????????????? :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:



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sorry, I've had a nervous tic in my left eye for 3 weeks and it's made me a little tetchy




How'd you get on, Sarah?

Si78

SleepyLea wrote:

Hmm, I used to work for an american sales company, and we had mrnig power meetings, music pumping, people WOOPing far too loudly for 8.30am... New starters were welcomed with cheers. Needless to say I didnt last very long!!!

hehehehee team-building and motivating :x :shock:

We used to have to do exercises at work before the shift started. 30 blokes in overalls doing lunges and squat-thrusts lol. Luckily we haven't done them for ages...

Could be worse tho. At the plants in Japan thousands of them do exercises in the yard to music lol

Si

Si78

Sorry, realised my above post was totally off-topic :oops:

sarah75, Im the biggest f*nny going on a bike, lol, so I always just tell myself "I want to do this for me!". I am constantly surprising myself with what I can go down, and at what speed 8)

I'm not a scaredy-cat or anything, just have very little self-confidence.

If I fall off, I just get back on and think "well atleast that didnt hurt as much as I thought it would"

Hope all went well!

Si

Ditch Witch

Ooof, you think she's ok? :?

SpinningJenny

Sarah -

WHERE ARE YOOOOOOO?????

miss notax

Morning

Yep, last night was fab! No offs (although to be honest it wasn't that technical) so all good

I am officially very unfit though - nothing new there I guess!!!

I also tried out my new girlie Camelbak for the first time and MY GOD, it makes a difference! I can actually breathe now and not have my boobs squashed :shock:

Ditch Witch

HURRAH! She lives


Glad you had a good time, hun

miss notax

Yep, twas good

Although am now sat at my desk with my cup of coffee trying to pick bits of hawthorn out of my hands (why do the thorns always do stright down so you can't get to them?) :? I always manage to dodge around some of them but seem to ride through at least one hawthorn bush per ride. Ouch :shock:

Ditch Witch

Yes, but how cool is that?

How many other girlies are picking thorns out of their hands, this morning?

I love it when I get bruised or cut up a little. Makes me feel like GI Jane

miss notax

Ha ha, true!

The best was when I smacked my mouth into my handlebars last year and has massive split lip with a purple and bruised chin. Unfortunately it was day before Chris and I were out to dinner for family reunion, and just after he had broken his arm.... We looked like something off a Jeremy Kyle show :shock:

Ditch Witch

"Are you my baby daddy?" :shock:


I react very badly to bug bites and at another forum summer gathering, I was bitten to bejeezus in the night on my face. Over a period of a week or so, it scabbed up into a very nasty mess. It coincided with the very nasty bust up of a relationship that the whole office new about.

My boss took me aside to ask, in short, if my ex was beating me up

miss notax

:shock:

MTBing has a lot to answer for!!!

Ditch Witch

It does, but the masochist in me loves that battered and bruised feeling. It's like the old saying, at least you know you're alive!

SpinningJenny

Ditch Witch wrote:

It does, but the masochist in me loves that battered and bruised feeling. It's like the old saying, at least you know you're alive!

totally agree

i am aching to buggery this morning, following a serious gym session on tuesday.

i may bitch and moan about it, but i am secretly proud of myself....

or not so secretly now

Ditch Witch

SpinningJenny

OMG, the overlord asterisked the word bit*h.

no way! :shock:

Ditch Witch

Good thing this isn't a dog breeding site, eh?

SpinningJenny

absolutely!

i do have a bit of a potty-mouth, though.... :twisted:

Ditch Witch

Me too. My 15 y/o son is horrified by my language :oops: