Subject: RE: Enjoy Race or Train more? Why?I have not been at this for long so I am still in the glorious honeymoon stage with the sport.
Like others have said: I enter a race so that I will train so that I will be in better shape so that I can enter a race.
I love and hate races. I am a worry wart and always find myself worrying about my bike staying together, which I shouldn't as it is a good bike. I usually cannot really relax and enjoy things until the run starts. I love hanging out with a bunch of super buff people for a day, I love seeing the look of determination on people's faces as they race (usually when they lap me on the run course ) I find a race to be an absolutely glorious chance to observe the human spirit.
I LOVE to see the finish line and cross it.
I love and hate training. Training gives me time to myself, which I like, although sometimes it requires too much time. Sometimes I resent the time I have to train but at the same time I am proud of the sacrifices I have made to allow me to train. I love biking at 6:00 a.m. and seeing a couple other lonely souls on the road, it makes me feel like a chosen one.
For me, I suppose neither the race or the training could exist without the other, although the race is a specific event and the training is a continuous sort of devotion, they are in fact inseparable and I could not imagine one without the other.
Do what you love. You are supposed to enjoy it (most of the time ), whatever it is. |