Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bocklin.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!arizona!bocklin!rogerh From: rogerh@bocklin.UUCP Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: Highway Hypnosis Message-ID: <205@bocklin.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 20:00:24 EDT Article-I.D.: bocklin.205 Posted: Mon Jun 3 20:00:24 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Jun-85 05:23:35 EDT References: Reply-To: rogerh@bocklin.UUCP (Roger Hayes) Organization: Dept of CS, U of Arizona, Tucson Lines: 13 (original poster rode into back of a car -- uphill, after first hard ride of the season. Question was how to avoid repeating the incident?) Build up more gradually. It sounds like you were cooked and hanging your head. You can't expect to ride safely if your brain has shut down due to lack of oxygen -- not unless you're used to riding like that. If you're going to go out and thrash yourself, build up to it gradually. Build up to it on recreational rides, with company, on terrain you've chosen. I love riding hard, but I plan on being essentially brainless for an hour after a hard ride. I mean, that's the whole joy of it, no? To turn off the ratiocination that plagues our working lives?