Quote Originally Posted by Spinswebs View Post
Also, in regards to your last post: Your family doesn't need to know everything that goes on in your life.
I think this is an important point, and it doesn't mean secrecy and lies and keeping what's really important to you from them at all. All of us have people in our lives (family or not) who just don't and will never get that we ride (or do any number of other things) because it's fun and wonder what point we're trying to prove (Hilary climbed Everest because it was there!). Why waste time explaining things that they aren't interested in understanding? With the cycling, you can talk about how nice it was to get out on the bike after a busy week at work and how beautiful blahblahblah looked in the morning sun and how you saw blahblahblah as you rode past. This is all stuff that shows how much you enjoy being on your bike without telling them the things they can't relate to like how you set a personal best up your local nemesis hill and didn't even feel like puking at the top (you come here and tell us that ).