If you are considering a long journey on a bicycle, or perhaps even crossing the country or going through several states, you have to be mentally prepared. It is cold often, tiring, and there are all sorts of obstacles, and hardships along the way. Of course, the more you do it, the better you get, and it's true what they say; adversity builds character. In fact, in several of my multistate bike rides, I think I've garnered enough personal character to start bottling it up and selling it. If you need personal character send me an e-mail, let's figure a way to get some of this character off my hands and into your head.
Now then, let me tell you why you need mental conditioning and mental preparation before you start. There's a thing in cycling which is very similar to hitting the wall when running a marathon. It's that point when you have no more energy left, and all your motivation and strength drifts away. It's a point at which you don't care if you go on or finish the journey, and in fact you don't even care if you live or die, all you want to do is go to sleep. Mountain climbers and rock climbers often talk about this and how the strength of character allows them to hold on and keep pushing upward.
In cycling, when you hit the wall like that, they call it "bonking out" and if you are on 1000 mile bike ride, it's really easy to just want to quit. But of course if you quit you will never accomplish the goal, therefore what you must do is commit yourself in your mind to keep going no matter what. Even if you are slowing down under 12 miles an hour with headwinds, and you realize the progress you are making isn't getting you very far very fast. But perhaps this is what makes it so exhilarating, looking back on one of your hundred plus mile legs and saying to yourself; "wow, I did it," because that gives you more strength to continue the next day, and so on.
Of course if you are not committed to go the distance before you start, you have already put yourself in a terrible predicament. Meaning you could be 500 to 700 miles away from home, or between your starting point and your finishing point midway. At that point you are in deep trouble, but if you believe in yourself and keep going, refusing to give up, and perhaps sing the "Rocky" theme song in your head, you'll make it. Indeed I hope you'll please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 22,900 articles was a lot of work - because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off.
Now then, let me tell you why you need mental conditioning and mental preparation before you start. There's a thing in cycling which is very similar to hitting the wall when running a marathon. It's that point when you have no more energy left, and all your motivation and strength drifts away. It's a point at which you don't care if you go on or finish the journey, and in fact you don't even care if you live or die, all you want to do is go to sleep. Mountain climbers and rock climbers often talk about this and how the strength of character allows them to hold on and keep pushing upward.
In cycling, when you hit the wall like that, they call it "bonking out" and if you are on 1000 mile bike ride, it's really easy to just want to quit. But of course if you quit you will never accomplish the goal, therefore what you must do is commit yourself in your mind to keep going no matter what. Even if you are slowing down under 12 miles an hour with headwinds, and you realize the progress you are making isn't getting you very far very fast. But perhaps this is what makes it so exhilarating, looking back on one of your hundred plus mile legs and saying to yourself; "wow, I did it," because that gives you more strength to continue the next day, and so on.
Of course if you are not committed to go the distance before you start, you have already put yourself in a terrible predicament. Meaning you could be 500 to 700 miles away from home, or between your starting point and your finishing point midway. At that point you are in deep trouble, but if you believe in yourself and keep going, refusing to give up, and perhaps sing the "Rocky" theme song in your head, you'll make it. Indeed I hope you'll please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 22,900 articles was a lot of work - because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off.
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