ok,started this because it was more fun than working - please add your own ideas:
How you know you have been cycling for a long time: 1. Your friends actually recognise you again (since you lost all that weight a long time ago). 2. Your alcohol consumption cannot be defined by medical questionairs (how many drinks per day....). 3. All your car wash rags are old cycling short chamois. 4. Your work clothes take up less space than your cycling kit in your cupboard. 5. You throw out water bottles instead of buying them. 6. The lemonjuice in your fridge is only for freshening your hydrapack, not softening tequilas. 7. Almost any problem you encounter gets sorted with a cable tie or chamois cream. 8. A dog's bark nearby causes you to prepare to "roll gently into the dirt". 9. Normal neighbourhood roads are divided into your "interval" and "recovery" roads. 10. You can make yourself thow up without sticking your finger down your throat by just riding harder, then still carry on afterwards as if nothing had happened. 11. You are friendlier with most local taxi drivers on the early morning beat than your work associates (c'mon, they're actually a friendly bunch). 12. Your shower routine regularly includes attendace with your HRM strap and helmet. 13. You have one or more accounts at the LBS even though you didn't ask for one. 14. When you walk into your LBS the grin on the manager's face widens perceptibly. 15. You have spare parts for bikes in your garage that you have no idea of the function of. 16. when you return home muddy and sweaty after a ride the first thing your kids ask is "Can I see your metal?". 17. Your kids no longer ask you if you have won when you return from a race. 18. Your family thinks you are nuts, even the more active among them, but by now they have stopped asking "why?". 19. People ask if you have done the Epic, and if not, they think you're just plain useless after all the time you put in. 20. You have already given your Discovery Channel cycling shirt to the gardener. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DarkAndDirty" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/darkanddirty?hl=en.
