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Bill Sornson
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> Mark Hickey wrote:
>> The reports we've read about his training don't reflect "fairly
>> leisurely" riding... you generally don't crash riding that way. ;-)
>
> I'm not sure that I would agree that crashing is correlated to speed.
> It might be inversely correlated to experience. I know there's studies
> to that effect with motorcycles. Sometimes novices ride too fast for
> their own good, something I would call "riding stupid".
I think mountain biking is like skiing. Even a beginner can go all day
without falling/crashing by being /so cautious/ that they never attain much
speed (or have much fun -- it's really tiring). Most people that "take" to
the sports, however, do so with enough gusto to occasionally hurt
themselves -- especially when still inexperienced, but later on as well.
{snips}
> Bush was a decent runner at relatively short distances, and is now a
> low average cyclist, slower than most serious cyclists his age, and
> faster than the duffers. And I still think that information about and
> demonstrations of his athletic performance have been managed in a way
> that exaggerates his capability. The mainstream media gushes over his
> running and mountainbiking like he's some kind of extraordinary
> athlete
The irony, of course, is that most of us would never have seen that article
that prompted at least two huge threads. I almost never hear /anything/
about Bush's exercise practices -- except, of course, when he almost fell
while learning how to ride a Segway (/that/ made all the newspapers and
network/cable news shows!). I just don't see all this "gushing" you talk
about (sort of like I don't hear him pushing Jesus all the time, either).
> which I think we all agree he is not. The only thing I think
> is noteworthy about his athletics is that he seems somewhat compulsive
> about it, but aren't we all?
I can quit any time I want. Maybe tomorrow.
> Mark Hickey wrote:
>> The reports we've read about his training don't reflect "fairly
>> leisurely" riding... you generally don't crash riding that way. ;-)
>
> I'm not sure that I would agree that crashing is correlated to speed.
> It might be inversely correlated to experience. I know there's studies
> to that effect with motorcycles. Sometimes novices ride too fast for
> their own good, something I would call "riding stupid".
I think mountain biking is like skiing. Even a beginner can go all day
without falling/crashing by being /so cautious/ that they never attain much
speed (or have much fun -- it's really tiring). Most people that "take" to
the sports, however, do so with enough gusto to occasionally hurt
themselves -- especially when still inexperienced, but later on as well.
{snips}
> Bush was a decent runner at relatively short distances, and is now a
> low average cyclist, slower than most serious cyclists his age, and
> faster than the duffers. And I still think that information about and
> demonstrations of his athletic performance have been managed in a way
> that exaggerates his capability. The mainstream media gushes over his
> running and mountainbiking like he's some kind of extraordinary
> athlete
The irony, of course, is that most of us would never have seen that article
that prompted at least two huge threads. I almost never hear /anything/
about Bush's exercise practices -- except, of course, when he almost fell
while learning how to ride a Segway (/that/ made all the newspapers and
network/cable news shows!). I just don't see all this "gushing" you talk
about (sort of like I don't hear him pushing Jesus all the time, either).
> which I think we all agree he is not. The only thing I think
> is noteworthy about his athletics is that he seems somewhat compulsive
> about it, but aren't we all?
I can quit any time I want. Maybe tomorrow.
