Subject: RE: TAN 75: Yanti wouldn't start me.JChristoff - 2009-05-13 2:28 PM wurkit_gurl - 2009-05-13 2:22 PM JChristoff - 2009-05-13 2:18 PM wurkit_gurl - 2009-05-13 2:12 PM I might have to ride my bike on Saturday. I don't really want to, at all. I don't understand why you are afraid of your bike... I lof my bike... I just don't have the time to get out and ride right now. I can't get off of it without falling now, beause they raised the seat when I got it fit. For a triathlon, it's fine, cuz I only have to stop once - at the end. But if I go out and train, I have to deal with lots of street crossings. And since even the smallest hills paralyze me with fear (and I don't know why it has gotten WORSE, not better), that limits me to where I can ride. So I can't get any better, because I can't ride hills. It's gotten to the point where my palms start to sweat if I even think about riding a hill. And so I don't want to go out and ride at all anymore. I know it doesn't make sense to ANYONE. And I wasn't afraid of it when I got it. Practice, practice, practice. I spent most of my first couple of days clipping in and clipping out to get used to it when I got my pedals. Excluding seat height... I felt the same way originally. It just takes time to have the action become natural. Hills... well... avoid them until you become a bit stronger. You know it is all mental right?? See, that's the thing. Riding hills more didn't help. Another BT'er took me to a hill last year so I could practice going down it. The first time, it was all right, then second time it was a little worse, and so on, and so on, until about the 5th attempt, I had to stop after only a few seconds because I was too afraid. So doing it MORE doesn't fix the problem, though it seems as though it should. I know all of the things I'm supposed to do to go down a hill - knees against the top tube, shift your weight back, etc, etc. But none of it makes a difference. |