Totally lost the desire to ride!

[jobob]

This is a very interesting thread for me. I experienced a great deal of upheaval in my life over the past year (almost exactly a year now!) and during that time my desire to ride has become pretty much nonexistent. I decided not to stress over it -- heh, I had enough to stress over, I didn't need to add to it! -- and I figured my desire to ride might return eventually. I'm not going to push myself to start riding again until I'm good & ready. In the meantime, I'm hiking a lot, and enjoying the beautiful hiking trails near me that I hardly knew existed until now.

I hope things look up for you, kajero.

[shootingstar]

Since I am car-free, it's a bit different. If I'm less motivated, I simply more robotic when cycling. It's just cycling shorter distances to do stuff when I'm demotivated. I don't think about it much nor analyze it because the bike ride is so short and I have to get groceries, get to work, etc. I have to eat. That's my motivator.

That's great you went for a short spin kajero. Don't look back on what you accomplished as the ultimate benchmark, look forward.

[Bike Writer]

This is a very interesting thread for me. I experienced a great deal of upheaval in my life over the past year (almost exactly a year now!) and during that time my desire to ride has become pretty much nonexistent. I decided not to stress over it -- heh, I had enough to stress over, I didn't need to add to it! -- and I figured my desire to ride might return eventually. I'm not going to push myself to start riding again until I'm good & ready. In the meantime, I'm hiking a lot, and enjoying the beautiful hiking trails near me that I hardly knew existed until now.

I hope things look up for you, kajero.

It's been a very interesting thread for me too as I have also had major changes and upheaval in my career life and am in-between career path currently. I know that affected my whole winter and early spring, desire to ride and a whole host of other things as well. I've detailed a bit more about it in my blog but I find it remarkable and also comforting to know that as others have experienced major life changes it has affected their cycling too. We're all different, but all the same too.

[ny biker]

Extreme stress can be exhausting, and mind-numbing.

Today I seem to be suffering from a more acute form of motivation loss. I'm trying to muster the energy to go out for a spin on yet another gray chilly spring day.