Comments | android1961: Digging my own grave

android1961

Digging my own grave

Jul 26, 2006 15:54

I've decided and, fuck it, I am going to do the 61-miles in Southern Indiana sometime in September. You only live once, right? And what do I have to loose, anyway. I mean what's a dozen or so four-mile climbs up steeple-shaped hills anyway.

fuck it, cycling until it hurts

Comments 7

frankieteardrop July 26 2006, 20:06:43 UTC

tell me more.

What do you want to know? android1961 July 26 2006, 20:14:54 UTC

It all started as a freshman in high school when I discovered a skateboard and a Black Flag album, Damaged I think it was. I quickly learned tricks as quickly as I bought Misfits, Dead Kennedys, and Minor Threat albums. I think it was official. I was a skater fag...um, punk.

I like to outdo myself. So took up snowboarding, and then went into a short run of extreme rollerblading until I got tired of beating up my knees to a bloody pulp. If I only listened to my parents and wore knee pads, and maybe a shirt (I liked that Dogtown look).

So with osteo-arthritis in my knees (and I could make a reverberating reference to assimilate Black Flag's Damaged into the theme of this) I cycle. And I'm still outdoing myself, or constantly trying. I don't know how to quit. And I have no one to impress so maybe I'm taking Morrissey's advice of "hoping for an early death" or maybe it's Rollins and the ideology of strength. So I'm going farther than I have been (the 61-mile death ride equipped with steep cliffs and extreme hills).

being_in_itself July 26 2006, 20:10:08 UTC

yeah what is that like a bike race or something?

android1961 July 26 2006, 20:15:45 UTC

No, it's a personal challenge. The farthest I've been is 50 miles. I'm hoping to do the 100-mile next year, which would be a timed event.

Tuck and roll danithesquirrel July 26 2006, 23:58:32 UTC

Good for you. Please don't kill yourself. Can I come watch you? Or wait at the finish ro what have you?

Re: Tuck and roll android1961 July 27 2006, 01:35:25 UTC

That would be cool to have a bunch of friends involved and have a party thrown after all is said and done.

Unfortunately it is not a group ride, and I will be on this ride alone.

Re: Tuck and roll danithesquirrel July 27 2006, 04:57:28 UTC

I would totally throw you a party. Maybe the next week? When you might (?) be recovered.