Cycling goals ruining friendship

[shootingstar]

I thought this was an interesting article, relevant to the discussion at hand:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/perso....html?hpt=Sbin

Depends on the personality of the person-- male or female who have acquaintances to share common fun activities but aren't really close friends..and are able not to mix up the distinctions between activity acquaintances and close friends.

In a way, no different from having different 'friends' to share different facets of ourselves.

My closest friends do not even cycle much at all. But they are the ones who have known me for several decades. THough they are on slightly different paths, most interestingly on the health/fitness side, each of us have separately found our own individual paths to finding different types of exercises/sports and foods to help ourselves. We don't spend much time talking about this facet because that is not the original /real purpose of such close friendships have with these women. They will be there for me, even if I should lose interest in cycling (which I hope won't occur for the next few decades.).

Doesn't preclude other cycling-related friendships from developing further, but if a person feels at all slighted/competitive, the friendship will not deepen nor become closer for quite awhile, if that.