All work, no ride ... boggles the mind
By: Jeanette Tran It’s time to ring in the New Year with some riding! Or that is what I had hoped for...instead I am swamped with work and seeing nothing but my desk and computer screen all almost 7 days a week. Weather has been cloudy and damp in the mornings, and cold and moist at night. Which makes me feel like it does not leave me a lot of time to fit in the ideal riding (conditions) around my hectic work schedule. My poor bike has been sitting in the garage while I chug away at work and prioritize my weekend with holiday visits and family obligations. I have been so busy I haven’t even made the time to put the battery on a charger. I have the battery tender, and the battery tender hook ups, but just never found the time or energy to drag myself out to the garage to put them on my bike. Let’s just hope my bike starts when I actually do find the time to ride it. So, when do you draw the line to just give up a little bit of your time at work for some nice alone time with the bike? Weighing out the options, how would one person know what their work limit is? When I graduated from college and got my first full time job, I cringed at the fact that I might just become a weekend rider. I loved riding so much, and having learned how to ride during my college years ended up spoiling me because I was always able to just hop on the my motorcycle at random times during the week and during the early morning hours in-between classes. Roads were always empty and roads were a plenty, not to mention great weather allowing the experience to be top notch. So of course giving up the lifestyle where I rode my bike everyday to and from campus, and the random weekday rides I was able to enjoy, was not at all enjoyable for me. Today, I find myself not only having become that “weekend” rider, I also, unfortunately, slowly see myself slipping into the “seasonal” rider category as well. As long as I keep up this work schedule, I feel like I will not have enough time to do much anything else but sleep when I finally leave work. So when I run across those motorcycle questioners, how will I answer the question "What type of riding do you use your bike for?"
I know right now, I am definitely not picking all of the above. I stopped riding during the weekends due to work and family obligations. So would that technically by default make a seasonal rider? Not necessarily in the sense that I ride with the 4 seasons of year, but in the sense that I ride only during the non-busy seasons of my job? Hopefully that will not be the case, and I will figure out a nice balance for things once again. There is much more that I have yet to explore, so it would be a shame for me to hang up my jacket and put away my helmet just yet. I hope that I can soon find my balance, or else I will just have to wait and see how much longer I can put work before everything else I enjoy in my life. Let’s just hope it’s the former, not the later. Published: Jan 5, 2010 Leave Comments |
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