Go Time
It's been too long.
For the past few weeks, it's been one thing or another--a family vacation, a mountain bike trip, a niece's birthday party--that has kept me off my motocross bike. Every time I pass my bike in the garage, I think to myself, Gotta get out to ride soon. Yet it hasn't happened.
But a few minutes ago I resolved to change that. I cleared my schedule and made the plans. I called my dad to invite him along and mentally prepared myself to have my front brake on the right side (again, I've been riding my mountain bike a lot.) And it feels good to have done these things.
Sometimes it's tough to put all the pieces together to just go out and moto. It's far too easy to get distracted when you've got kids and bills and a semi-bustling web site to pay attention to. Yet the truth is that until you make the time, riding is just another thing on your to-do list. And I'm trying not to add many more things to that list these days--there are enough car repairs, dentist appointments and e-mail chores to fill that list just fine as it is.
So this weekend I'll be lightening my burden a little by throwing some roost off it. See you Sunday.
P.S. Please excuse the lack of posts this week--it really was family vacation time, and the laptop didn't come along. We went to the ocean and the combination of electronics, salt water and young children seemed like a dangerous mix.
