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finding love in the hills

and developing creative endurance

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Jim Dalling
Oct 30, 2023
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Love is painful.

It makes people do crazy things.

Love is fuel for us RemarkableFools.

Love is for more than people.

I love riding my bike really fast, down hills over uneven and bumpy terrain.

I love being in the woods.

I love spending time with my buddies - who I also love.

And?

My love is relentless.

Zeke and Jed’s is relentless as well

Zeke and Jed love bikes far more than I do. My ‘weird wiring’ is a diffusion filter for my love. It’s broken up, scattered and quite unconcentrated.

Well.

The brightest, most focused place is at home. My children and wife get the best of it. It spreads and connects with the rest of my extended family.

After that? I love a mountain of different things, persuits that are both distracting and rewarding. In order to be a more fit, more powerful ‘love’, I need an extra week.

Either that or I need to pick one thing and focus. I can’t. Or don’t. Or?

Who knows?

I envy Jed and Zeke.

Zeke and Jed have focused, precision love when it comes to mountain biking. Zeke consi…

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