It’s like running under a long arching pass…dropping a knee in 10″ of Utah jazz….those moments when the pedals turn over effortlessly as you maintain just better than a lumbering gorilla pace up some normal torture of a climb. I mean it’s silly sometimes climbing hills with like a 15 rpm cadence. We all do it. It’s still easier than walking. I rode 4 laps up the big hill in town. Well, it ain’t much of a hill but you know you’re having a good day when you ride up the same hill 4 times, eh? Seriously, we’ve been under a blizzard thick coat of snow for the last month and the big snow banks and the -15F didn’t help me motivation. We got up to 40F a couple days in a row and it made the bike lanes reappear. Enough to inspire me to do laps off the couch.
The legs are a bit dead today. I did about a 45 minute yoga practice when I got home that felt pretty good. I’m using my “training,” that is my yoga and cycling and nordic skiing, as preparation for my upcoming first trip this summer to the Burning Man festival. I want to play some landmark DJ sets while I’m there. Of course I’m training my live DJ skills as well. —-As a side note, I’m looking for video and/or live physical artists to join my sets—-
Fix was just what I needed after feeling so couped up in February. The winter off riding doesn’t seem to make the legs forget. Fix just comes right back or at least the basic pedaling/non-pedaling aspect. I feel the nature of fix has assimilated itself into my nervous system. A mindful-but-unconscious connection between human and human-created motion machine. Of all man-machine interactions, that of the bicycle and specifically the fix represents efficiency and functionality of the finest kind. From a modern standpoint you’d have to say the “interface” of the device (fix) is pretty good and has been pretty good for over 100 years.
Fix made me feel like myself, when I hadn’t been feeling myself of late.
Fix made me feel the road, when I hadn’t felt the road of late.
Fix made me feel the hill, though I’d definitely felt the hill of late. (nordic)
Fix made me feel my smile, when I hadn’t been smiling myself of late.
I hope I can arrange a fix for the festival….I believe I can.
You just have to believe that now is the future you always dreamed of. Come back to that. Be here. It’s always now, so let’s make the best of it.
Fix
G.