Can someone explain this to me?

**bikerHen** · 11-06-2006, 08:09 AM

Last Saturday I had to take my husband to work, no big deal. I had an early class to teach that morning so I wasn't planning to ride my bike to work. On the way to his work I spied not one but two cyclists. I started whining about maybe I should be riding too. The next thing I know, I'm speeding home to throw breakfast at the dogs, yank my road bike off the trainer, jump into my cycling dud and pedaling to work as fast as I can. I get there with just enough time to clean up before class. This happens all the time. I see someone else out riding and I get this overwhelming desire to be out riding as well. Anyone else "suffer" from this syndrome? bikerHen

**bikerchick68** · 11-06-2006, 08:26 AM

LOL... yeah, I call it "ride envy"...

of course I also get "gear envy" and "speed envy", and "handling skills envy" and "calves envy" and... and...

**Pedal Wench** · 11-06-2006, 08:29 AM

Anyone else suffer???? Oh yeah!

Last year, we had just finished Ride the Rockies, and three weeks later we had an amazing hiking trip in Yellowstone. Every bike we saw in the park made me sick with envy! It really became obsessive. We saw a bike tour going through the park, and I practically stalked them to find out where they were from and where they were going. This all just a few weeks after I did my own amazing tour.

**paigette** · 11-06-2006, 08:30 AM

LOL, that was the one thing I hated about my old job. My office overlooked Corpus Christi Bay, so it'd be 9 am/ 11 am/1pm/, I'm stuck at work & there I see people out on their bikes, just riding along. I'd get sooooo pissed that I did not have the $$$ or time to be able to be out there on a weekday

Now, I'm safely tucked in an office where I can only see a courtyard, so I'm not in danger of taking someone out. Plus, it's a college town, so most of the kids here are on Wal-mart specials heading to class. I don't envy that!

**Geonz** · 11-06-2006, 08:32 AM

EVERY TIME I have to resort to the car and see somebody on a bike - which is every time I have to resort to the car - I get it.
Every time I go to bike journal and read about people riding, I get it :-)

**CyclChyk** · 11-06-2006, 10:19 AM

Ditto what bikerchick68 said. All KINDS of envy going on here....

....and the vision of "throwing breakfast at the dogs" ! I'm still laughing at that one!

**Bikingmomof3** · 11-06-2006, 10:26 AM

Absolutely!

**Popoki_Nui** · 11-06-2006, 10:29 AM

In a word....YES!

**Mimosa** · 11-06-2006, 11:42 AM

The window near the coffeemachine overlooks a cyclepath. So when I go for a coffee brake then I can see the cyclist going by while I am in that stuffy office. And when the weather is nice I get the urge to run to my boss and tell him I am off for the day.

It already happened 3 times that one of the pro-women was passing on her bike while I was going for a walk in my lunchbrake. I so hate that, she probably does it to annoy me

**crazycanuck** · 11-06-2006, 02:04 PM

So i'm not the only one...

Last week I ran out of spare tubes and patience-(part of a long story short make sure you have the right ones with the right size valve before leaving the store)-and had to take the train to work. I could not stop staring out the window at the bike path thinking i should be there. I felt as if i had cheated my bike and was so depressed not riding that day.

Cycling's a nice addiction...

c

**bcipam** · 11-06-2006, 02:41 PM

yeah... but unfortunately doesn't mean I act on it... I usually think to myself, "wow, look they are out riding... the weather's so nice..." and then get frozen with indecision and flop on the couch. Man I need me some motivation!!!!!

**Tater** · 11-07-2006, 05:29 AM

Originally Posted by Geonz

EVERY TIME I have to resort to the car and see somebody on a bike - which is every time I have to resort to the car - I get it.

Amen, sister! I am the same way.

**tattiefritter** · 11-07-2006, 06:15 AM

I get activity envy, full stop. If I'm walking to the shop or sat in my car and see someone running then I want to get my running kit on. If I see someone on a road bike then I want to be on the roadie, if I see someone on a mud covered MTB then I want to be on my MTB.

I can also get the envy when I'm doing something! The other weekend I was hiking on one of the mountains in the Lakes (Red Screes) on a beautiful, clear November day when a couple of fell runners bounded past and I wanted to be running instead (I'm not fit or daft enough to do proper mountain fell running though).

**RoadRaven** · 11-07-2006, 08:17 AM

My teenagers must get sick of me muttering to myself when I see other cyclists as I drive them into town, or back home...

"I'm sooo jealous"

**bikerHen** · 11-07-2006, 08:17 AM

It sounds like I'm in good company!

Ride envy. I like that.

To finish my ride story, since I had given my hubby a ride, someone needed a car so he could get home. Sooo . . . after my class I pedaled home real fast and got the car. It started raining right after I got home and hasn't really stopped since. And, as I was flying down my evil commuter hill there was a young man in full kit and a nice road bike huffing and puffing up that hill just like I do. So maybe it really is an evil hill.

bikerHen

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