Have you ever had trouble "Stepping Up"? You know Getting out and going for a ride? The process of loading the trikke, driving out to a trail or park. where to go, how far to carve. Has this ever happened to you? How did you fix it? Did you go? Did you put it off hoping to later or perhaps tomorrow? hmm,...
Imagine how this must feel for someone trying to learn "how to" ? Right? That was what I was saying. Everybody goes through this no matter what their form of exercise may be. The decision to exercise, workout, get healthy, lose weight, or enjoy a ride is set off by the determination to see it through. So you're an experienced carver having an issue with stepping up. How do you use this to help a new carver step up?
Yeah - I've been there. I have thought about the Nike line - "Just do it" many times and then make myself go. Once I'm out there gliding along, I often think, "Why did I hesitate?" and "How could I possibly forget how great this feels?" I have also noticed that if I have a stretch where I'm busy or traveling and I don't get to carve for a few days, I start to get a little crabby. I need the carve. I'm hooked on the carve. Don't take away my carving vehicle. To newbies I want to say, "Get Hooked."
ReplyDeleteI find that I hit times it is hard to "Step Up". What helps me is having joined up with other trikking enthusiasts on the Endomondo Tracking network. Here I get notes from time to time about what someone else has done. Or comments on my last ride. Or when I am looking for some motivation, I go out and look at what my friends have been doing. Sometimes I just look at their calender of activities and see how frequently they have been out riding or take note that they too have taken breaks but jumped back in from time to time. At other times I look at the total milage that my friends have put together during the month or year to date. Somehow seeing what others are slowly accomplishing helps me find the spark to say... I can do it!
ReplyDeleteHelps to (1) Keep the Trikke CV in the car so that the "load the trikke" step is eliminated and (2) commit to meet someone else (even if they start out as a jogger/runner/biker and not a trikker) so that you are accountable to them. Jim and I have both had times that we weren't in the right frame of mind to carve at the start of a ride, but went bc the other was meeting us there and finished really thankful that the other "made us" start down the trail.
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