On Lost Passion

I was flipping through the blogs of some skater friends of mine and then I glanced over the Beaches Cycle Club blog. (I wonder if anyone at the BCC has a personal Blog? Something tells me most of those guys spend their free time on the saddle and not writing… hmmm, maybe I should too!)

But it hit me like a load of bricks, I have absolutely zero interest in skating anymore, I have reached the point where I do not even care to read the blogs anymore. I don’t get it. Hardly a year ago I was out in Cambridge with Benji getting my foot molded for my custom Vaypors now here I am, disinterested in skating. So disinterested in fact that on Wednesday, when I pulled my skates out, those same custom Vaypors, there was a layer of dust on them.

I read the plans of the club, the Saturday Steady State ride to Hamilton and the Sunday “Simcoe Scramble” and you know what? Somehow I am going riding on Sunday, probably not with the BCC this weekend, the trip to Rochester I am taking tonight will leave me too tired to wake up early on Sunday morning. But I am going to go for a ride on Sunday. I am thinking, screw this blood donation crap, next weekend I don’t care if I keel over and pass out, I have to get back out there with them, Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe and back, here I come! (That is about 180km, or roughly one full marathon longer than the longest inline ultra-marathon in North America, the A2A.)

In unrelated news there was some ambiguity regarding my recent references to the Doughnut ride. I wrote: Now I have heard that the origin of the name is from the fact that the ride started at a doughnut shop at Laird and Eglington which is no longer there. I meant, the doughnut shop is no longer at Laird and Eglinton, if anyone wants to go on the hammer and drop feast from hell, by all means, show up at Laird and Eglinton, (and yes I cannot spell if my life depended on it.)

I also wrote: my friend’s comment was, how can it be uphill all the time if it’s a ring? Actually that was a misunderstanding on my part, my friend meant, the ride has lots of rollers so it is continuously up and down. I still maintain that the laws of physics as applied to cycling are not the same as the regular laws of physics, in particular, a ring can go uphill all the time. It’s true, just go on a long enough ride and you will discover I am right!

Anyway I am going to continue collecting laws of physics for cyclists, I think they are great, if anyone has any they would like to contribute, by all means, just make a post. At some point I will probably create a static web page of laws of physics, but not now. Right now I have to dream...

...of riding!