So what are you training for?

[Jewbacca]

So I can drink beer and eat pizza and have things to look forward to other than a glass of wine or another rubbish tv show?

 

The option to do adventures, do Iron Man, do Expedition Africa, go paddling on a Saturday and not die..... The endorfins, the brotime, the laughs, the challenge.

 

Lazy people don't get it.

 

Getting up at 4 am to meet the team for a cycle... Meeting the team in the pouring rain tonight at 6 to go up table mountain... absolute joy.

 

I wouldn't trade it for anything.

 

What am I training for? To not be rubbish at life

[Curbie]

... for STRAVA

 

April       Thornhill100

May       SANI2C

June      Great Zuurberg Trek

July        Knysna Cycle Tour

August   Trans Baviaans

 

Not much else compares to a 04h30 morning, meeting fellow riders for a spin around the city or country side.

 

Oh, and for those individual and Team Vitality Awards

[RocknRolla]

Ok, the real reason is to not get chicked, by my wife on each and every ride.

[NotSoBigBen]

Ok, the real reason is to not get chicked, by my wife on each and every ride.

 

Jeez dude I been 'chicked' so many times I've given up trying to beat them, can't even join them 

[Rocket-Boy]

I have the odd races that I train for but most of the time it is to get away from the rat race and get the cobwebs out.

[bullet77]

Trans #2 20th August my 1st TB, I turn 50 a few days later. K2C in September would like to beat 5:30.

[V12man]

Jeez dude I been 'chicked' so many times I've given up trying to beat them, can't even join them 

You better watch it - HA might even chick you on a downhill....

[Veebee]

Most people in my circles don't get it. My answer to the idiotic questions is a question. What did you do this morning? We went shopping, We watched the rugby, We slept late etc are met with rolling eyes. I train/ride because I love that flat euphoric feeling after a big morning. Knowing I've been out there. This morning i saw what people can't really relate to.

 

Not much beats watching the sunrise while on your bike, cool fresh air in your face and the burn through your legs. The couch potatoes would never understand.

[RocknRolla]

Not much beats watching the sunrise while on your bike, cool fresh air in your face and the burn through your legs. The couch potatoes would never understand.

 

Or happening upon a Jackal on the cradle Mountainbike section, after riding past a lion enclosure and even a white tiger not 5 km before.

 

The later on returning along the road and spotting Rhino with baby Rhino...

[hayleyearth]

To get every single Strava KOM within a 10km radius of my house...

 

You should maybe start with smaller goals...like getting your PR's in your area better than your riding partners 1st   

[Tubehunter]

You should maybe start with smaller goals...like getting your PR's in your area better than your riding partners 1st   

 

YOH, there's some fighting words eh!!!! Steve are you waiting for HA to bail to the island of the long white cloud first, so that it's harder for her to quickly jump on the bike and have another effort at claiming them back??    

[Jensie]

These days I ride just for fitness as family responsibilities takes 1st priority.We ride in the mornings at 5.

Good luck to all training through winter. 

[Capricorn]

Not much beats watching the sunrise while on your bike, cool fresh air in your face and the burn through your legs. The couch potatoes would never understand.

the route along the coast to hout bay in a pre-dawn mission is gobsmackingly gorgeous, and it actually gets better during the winter months. The air is crisper, the weather is of course more dramatic, and the sunrises just incredible. There's something personally gratifying about fighting a near instinctive desire to not venture out when it's bad weather. But once done, the warmth of that 'achievement' is what thaws the marrow in the bones.

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

the route along the coast to hout bay in a pre-dawn mission is gobsmackingly gorgeous, and it actually gets better during the winter months. The air is crisper, the weather is of course more dramatic, and the sunrises just incredible. There's something personally gratifying about fighting a near instinctive desire to not venture out when it's bad weather. But once done, the warmth of that 'achievement' is what thaws the marrow in the bones.

And the eddies behind your arms and ears suddenly cool you right back down!

 

FFS. I need to get a road bike again (whaaaaaaaaaat!?)

[eddy]

You better watch it - HA might even chick you on a downhill....

 

What do you mean down hill ? She chicked me on an uphill last week.........  

[J∆kk∆ls]

I'm not training, I just ride my bike.

 

Even a short commute to work can prove to be the best ride of the week!