Quote Originally Posted by Tri Girl View Post
I wimped out this morning. hit the snooze 3 times and kept rolling over. So to punish myself for not commuting I rode the trainer for 1:45. That will teach me to get out of bed tomorrow morning for sure!
Oh, we do we feel the need to punish ourselves?? Really? It's okay to sleep in. It's okay to not be perfect. It's taken me 43 years to figure that out, and what a relief it is!

TriGirl, you are inspiring people even though you may not know it. When I lived in DC, I commuted by bike regularly (3-4 times a week) to and from my job 14 miles away. I just went along my regular life without thinking about inspiring anyone. It was a way to get to work; the best way in terms of time, fun, budget, and parking.

One morning, when I was slugging up a hill at the beginning of my route, a lady yelled to me from her porch. I stopped (I was almost stopped anyways because of the hill), and she came down off her porch in her pink bathrobe. She said that she had seen me ride my bike past her house for several years in all kinds of weather, and that because of that, she and her husband had gone out and bought bikes and were riding them around the neighborhood on nice days.

That totally made my day. See? you are probably inspiring people without even knowing it.