Thank you so much for letting us celebrate with you!! I also sometimes think back to the grade school gym classes that I found so humiliating...there was such a long list of things I couldn't do that the other kids seemed to find so easy.
I don't pick up athletic things quickly, and just the other day I was telling someone, I wonder what might have been different about my self-image as a kid if, instead of being asked to climb a rope to the top the gym ceiling (never did get a foot off the floor), I was told to go out and just slow jog as far as I could on a whole Saturday afternoon!
Congrats for overcoming your Catskills experience and keeping going. Yay!!!
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08-21-2007, 06:26 PM #1
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"The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it." ~ Doug Bradbury
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08-21-2007, 06:54 PM #2
Mmmmm... Broccoli?
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Yes, Starfish! That's exactly how I felt. It was hard to be an awkward, unathletic kid. Add good grades and being a classical musician and boy was I just asking to be ridiculed!
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08-21-2007, 07:12 PM #3
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I just want to chime in on the good words.
I'm sometimes amazed at how good getting up a hill makes me feel, so I totally cheer when I hear about others getting up hills, or even just giving things a go. Well done!
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08-21-2007, 08:22 PM #4
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That is great! I can feel your happiness in your post. Hope you have many more wonderful rides ahead of you!
AnnieTime is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived." Captain Jean Luc Picard
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08-21-2007, 09:45 PM #5
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good for you!
It makes riding so much more enjoyable when you're confident.
I know, I had that feeling on last Sunday's club ride; everything just seemed to "click".
Just a matter of more time in the saddle.2008 Trek FX 7.2/Terry Cite X
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08-21-2007, 11:54 PM #6
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Hey - what's this
for? Go you!
Oh, I wish I could go ride up some hills tomorrow. (Did I really just say that?
) Being a lady of leisure was much more fun than this working thing, if less well paid. 
Drink coffee and do stupid things faster with more energy.
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08-22-2007, 02:18 AM #7
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We'll never climb Mt. Everest, but I'm sure we get the same feeling each time we conquer a new hill on our bike.
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If you don't grow where you're planted, you'll never BLOOM - Will Rogers
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