Sedj on Nostr: On the topic of doing hard scary shit. I thought uphill switchbacks at relatively low ...
On the topic of doing hard scary shit.
I thought uphill switchbacks at relatively low speed wouldn't be that hard.
Until I took the first 10mph buttonhook turn steep uphill on the inside radius. Fuck me! I made it, barely. Gravity, road at a slant, trying to turn a motorcycle and balance while forward momentum is being sucked away by steepness... scary shit.
It was hard. I kept going. It isn't getting less scary or hard if I give up. Some turns I almost lost it. A couple I had to go into the oncoming lane at the end, luckily with no downhill traffic at the wrong moment.
I'm no pro at this shit.
I made it to the top. Now I have to go back down the same turns.
This felt scarier. I took my time at the top. Told myself I would pull off at the pullouts to cool things down (brake, clutch, etc). I was worried, for sure. This was going to be hard.
And shit you not, it wasn't. So much easier. Having momentum and gravity working together on your side is so much nicer. Sure, I took things slow, pulled off a couple times to let cars pass, no big deal. I got to the bottom, no problem.
All this shows sometimes what we expect to be no big deal ends up hard and scary, and vice versa. Either way, DO IT ANYWAY, because not doing it won't get you anywhere.
Doing hard scary shit will change your life, and rarely for the worse. Fear is fine, as long as you don't allow it to paralyze you.
I thought uphill switchbacks at relatively low speed wouldn't be that hard.
Until I took the first 10mph buttonhook turn steep uphill on the inside radius. Fuck me! I made it, barely. Gravity, road at a slant, trying to turn a motorcycle and balance while forward momentum is being sucked away by steepness... scary shit.
It was hard. I kept going. It isn't getting less scary or hard if I give up. Some turns I almost lost it. A couple I had to go into the oncoming lane at the end, luckily with no downhill traffic at the wrong moment.
I'm no pro at this shit.
I made it to the top. Now I have to go back down the same turns.
This felt scarier. I took my time at the top. Told myself I would pull off at the pullouts to cool things down (brake, clutch, etc). I was worried, for sure. This was going to be hard.
And shit you not, it wasn't. So much easier. Having momentum and gravity working together on your side is so much nicer. Sure, I took things slow, pulled off a couple times to let cars pass, no big deal. I got to the bottom, no problem.
All this shows sometimes what we expect to be no big deal ends up hard and scary, and vice versa. Either way, DO IT ANYWAY, because not doing it won't get you anywhere.
Doing hard scary shit will change your life, and rarely for the worse. Fear is fine, as long as you don't allow it to paralyze you.