Ride And Abide

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. --  Neale Donald Walsch The journey on the bike today was fairly crazy.  It started at the bottom of a fairly decent hill... and ended there.. 5 hours and 49 minutes later.  After traversing 27 miles and climbing 3800 feet. Mountain biking...in mountains. Uau A post shared by James Radtke (@rideandabide) on Dec 23, 2017 at 10:37am PST Note to self:  You should start/end at the TOP of a hill.  If you spend a few hours climbing, by the time you're ready for the downhill I am too wiped out to really enjoy it. Unfortunately I had run out of steam about 2-1/2 hours in to the adventure.  I was just on the verge of cramping and really had very little "pep" left in my legs.  But, we pressed on.  A short while later we encountered a highway that the trail system seemed to straddle and I tried to "bow out" gracefully.  It was getting dark and I was pretty much shot.  My co...

"It" began a while ago... but I finally felt compelled to begin documenting "It". It... is a journey.  The journey is everything... and it is nothing.  It is unlearning all the "truths" and learning all the "untruths".  OK - enough with my nonsense.  Why am I doing this? I would like to document one of the most significant transformations of my adult life.  It started with a break-up... and who knows where it will end.  I want to transcribe my journey as I learn about spirituality, mindfullness, meditation, introspection, different therapy models and approaches. Unfortunately a portion of this will be post-event documentation and probably a bit skewed as such... but there are a few very important points I have learned: Life is only as shitty as you let it be, within reason(tm). You can do anything you put your mind to, within reason(tm). Wherever you go, there you are.  -- Confucius?  Or possibly Jon Kabat-Zinn  Music - whatever t...