Not riding at all is kind of hard to do when the bike is your primary source of transportation.
On Jun 23, 11:47 pm, Thomas Lynn Skean <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't really have a guess. Yours sounds reasonable. But I'd qualify > it by restricting the assertion to people maintaining a relatively > high level of activity and fitness. > > As a person who is moderately active and only just entering into > moderate fitness, I can tell you that two *days* off the bike makes > the next ride feel worse. Two weeks would be horrible. Beyond that I > don't want to consider. Eek. > > However, I can embrace the idea that some down-time helps. For me, a > one day per week hiatus in the midst of regular 10-20 mile days is > perfect. It allows recovery, I guess. But no matter why, I feel better > the next ride and generally feel more fit faster if I follow that > pattern. As a practical matter, two non-consecutive off-days per week > works too. But not as well. And not unless one of them involves some > significant activity (fast walking a couple miles, typically) . My > hold on riding fitness is too tenuous to think that not riding for > weeks would help me. But I could easily see it helping others. > > Yours, > Thomas Lynn Skean > who was off the bike 4 days in a row *once* in the past two years. It > sucked! > > On Jun 23, 10:56 pm, Joe Bernard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hmm, I think I should have rephrased my topic. Grant's revelation got > > me thinking about the one I had; wondering if he had the same one; and > > if you guys had any thoughts on the matter. I didn't mean it as a > > fanboy "let's guess what Grant is thinking" deal, but it appears to > > have come out that way. > > > On Jun 23, 8:19 pm, Forrest <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I guess I'll wait and see . . . -- Forrest > > > > On Jun 23, 10:15 pm, Joe Bernard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Today's Peeking Through the Knothole has an update on Mr. P's broken > > > > thumb (healed enough to ride), and a mysterious "revelation" about > > > > exercise he's going to report tomorrow. My guess - based on his > > > > expressed obsessiveness with fitness, and forced sabbatical from much > > > > of same - is that he discovered "not exercising" is good for you > > > > sometimes. I found, after years of constantly pushing to get on the > > > > bike whenever I could, that sometimes cycling is a lot more fun after > > > > a week or two off. I feel refreshed and strong and "in touch" with it > > > > in a way I lose if I ride "too much". Any other guesses?- Hide quoted > > > > text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" 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/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
