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ParticipantTrue but I think there’s something to be said for “big pushes” trying to breakthrough plateaus which
Participantwont there be winners and losers?
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The government that seems the most unwise,
Oft goodness to the people best supplies;
That which is meddling, touching everything,
Will work but ill, and disappointment bring.Misery!–happiness is to be found by its side! Happiness!–misery
lurks beneath it! Who knows what either will come to in the end?Shall we then dispense with correction? The (method of) correction
shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn
become evil. The delusion of the people (on this point) has indeed
subsisted for a long time.Therefore the sage is (like) a square which cuts no one (with its
angles); (like) a corner which injures no one (with its sharpness).
He is straightforward, but allows himself no license; he is bright,
but does not dazzle.lao tzu. over 2000 years ago…
ParticipantWhy are people starving?
Because the rulers eat up the money in taxes.
Therefore the people are starving.
Why are the people rebellious?
Because the rulers interfere too much.
Therefore they are rebellious.Why do people think so little of death?
Because the rulers demand too much of life.
Therefore the people take life lightly.Having to live on, one knows better than to value life too much.
lao tzu, old school eastern politicla philosophy. sounds kinda fresh, doesnt it?
Participantso often, doing something is worse than doing nothing.
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
If kings and lords observed this,
The ten thousand things would develop naturally.
If they still desired to act,
They would return to the simplicity of formless substance.
Without form there is no desire.
Without desire there is tranquillity.
In this way all things would be at peace.i think what laotzu is saying is probably Obama should’vebnleft the health care situation, screwed up as it was, alone.
Probably congress should consult the Tao Te Ching beforemaking any big movesfrom here on out…
Participantno. i am too weak. but i am going to be much more awesome next year.
Participanthttp://janheine.wordpress.com/
here is jan heine’s bike blog, free…not as good as his magazine, but still lots of interesting bikey food for thought.
i love bicycles. but i am slow. yet dogged. i used to love a very long all day tour. i once rode from albuguerque to santa fe and back on one weekend, through back roads east of the freeway…really slow, all day…one fo the great weekends of my life…
ParticipantThere was interesting counterintuitive research in jan heine’s bicycle quarterly (perhaps the best bike mag ever) about tire size and speed. Thinner and harder is not faster.
Great great publication.
Participanteven at my strongest I had a hard time going 30 mph on a flat with no wind. I’d need to be super tucked and pedaling way hard. hell id have a hard time maintianing 30 on slight declines…
You’d have to getout there with a speedometer to know if you’re really putting out that kind of effort.
even 25 mph on a windless flat is hard work.
kinda like the “nautilus” weight machines. they have weight markingson them, but they bear no real resemblance to how much wieight a person could actually lift.
in the real world, 30 mph invovles feeling like there is a lot of wind blowing at you. unless you have a tailwind, which never actually happens, as cuyclists invariably seem to be headed into the wind.
Participant200 miles a week is a lot of miles but not beyond amateurs. that’s just one long 80-100 mile ride on the weekend and a few short rides during the week. you’d probably have to commute by bike if yu ahve a job and family to get anywhere close to 200 miles. I used to ride 150 a week from commuting alone and was pretty tired on the weekends. I was fit, but not super fit or super fast…my genetics kind of suck in that regard. I am always goign to be at the front of the slow pack or tailing way off the end of the back and losing sight of the fast pack, no matter what. because im slow. andkind of weak.
but 200 isn’t crazy. 300-400 is where it starts to get nuts and pro or pro-wannabee like.
Still, 200 is a lot.
ParticipantI’m going to get into therapy, discuss this anger…
Participantis life all about longevity? maybe it’s liek saving money for a time that will never come.
maybe the time is now.
the body must move this much is clear.
Participantrunning is not delusional. treadmills are.
bikes are like marijuana and spin bikes are like peyote.
weights are like water.
Participantone thing i hate about bikes now is the illusion of speediness they give us. even if we are out of shape, we feel so swift. that is part of their beauty. everyone feels liek they could almost be the fastest cyclist int he world. but theya re like drugs, delusion inducing, a dream of flight.
weights on the other hand are sober, horrible reality. sisyphus. the sheer horrible effort of rearranging the earth for survival. there is nothing delusional about a giant stone, a steel bar, a bar you grab and pull yourself up.
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