Quote Originally Posted by Tar-Cat
so absorbed in that, in fact, that I jammed my hand directly into the wall too many times.
Oh dear! Grog, hope you don't experience the cycling equivalent of those swimming injuries!

Thanks for starting this thread - I know everyone on this forum has experienced this kind of loss (and when our British friends call it "gutting" it's absolutely the perfect way to describe it). It still hurts a bit, even many, many years later.

This thread made me start thinking about the attraction/competition type of response that SOs have to our athleticism. Does anyone else have stories about what happened when their cycling performance exceeded their partner's? My take is that it's cool and scary at the same time for them and they don't quite know how to respond.