Our friend, Tony - from the UK, has given us some good strategies for our "rehabilitation". These are his words of wisdom:
It is not normal to sleep in the same room as your bike. For the first week try every other night to break the habit.
Most people do not rub white cream into their backside every morning before breakfast, no matter how pleasurable it has become to you, you need to stop. Find other pleasures in life.
When you get up in the night to pee you do not have to squeeze your tyres before and after you go.
You should continue to sit down at 5.45 each evening to preview the next day however you should have a beer, glass of wine or cocktail with you. This is a good habit.
If you get nostalgic for some of those hotel breakfasts then overcook some scrambled eggs put them in the fridge for a few days and then eat them at room temperature. You are cured!
You should email family and friends before you return and send them an example route sheet so that they can prepare some for you, so that you can get to their houses and the local store easily.
You do not need an energy bar and some energy gu just to get to the end of the street.
Watch out for my forthcoming book "One thousand ways to use a ziplock bag".
Finally, a recent study issued from the Panhandle University of Oklahoma reports that there are long term mental affects from the use of Gatorade. The report says anyone who has taken significant amounts of Gatorade on a daily basis for more than thirty days is highly likely to do crazy things for the rest of their lives. You have been warned!
I will miss him terribly...
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| The Mohawk River...so much history I now want to read...so little time |
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| Beginning to feel like home... |
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| The one bit of blue sky we saw today... |
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| Tony tucking into "lunch"... |
(CR alums...there are more that I'm sure you can think of. We are compiling a list. You are welcome to add to it - just send 'em along.)
I sent these to Chuck:
ReplyDeleteRemember, you can no longer simply get up and walk out of restaurant without paying first.
You should not drive your car as far to the right side of the roadway as possible, calling out any bumps, holes or cracks.
Although you will feel the need, when you get home, do not stop at every DQ you see.
You must immediately stop having “early dinner” of a cheeseburger and shake before your normal meal. Failure to heed this warning will add many pounds to your waist.
Don’t bore your family, coworkers, and friends with how great the trip was. Unless they are cyclists, they won’t understand.
Jim XC09 & ES11