Monday, August 12, 2013

Something's Afoot

While it still hasn't escaped me how lucky I am as a motorcyclist and a father of a 1-year old to be able to continue sport riding on the weekends, something's been troubling me in my last few weekend, recreational rides.

I haven't been enjoying them like I used to.

I've been chalking it up to high-traffic days and less-than-stellar road conditions I've been used to, but even weekend rides on roads that I venture to in order to avoid traffic and such have been marred with unpleasantries (such as road work). Of course it's all coincidental, but that they've been consecutive are conspiring to even make me think about taking a hiatus from street riding - something I'd never thought would happen this soon, let alone cross my mind this early.

'Course, there is still a lot going on outside of my riding life that are probably tugging away at my attention, so maybe I just need o persevere until such time that all I can do is think about riding while I'm out riding.

It's just, if this means turning the page to leave a chapter for a new one, I'm thinking I shouldn't resist.