When the bike seat hurts

Keep on writing

Alo dear reader,

You’ll likely be pleased to find out that I have, for the time being, shelved stories about Ricky and myself solving a mystery surrounding a global cabal that controls humanity through sewage.

After four posts and a couple of thousand words the joke wore a bit thin.

But there will be more. Stories featuring Ricky and Jimmy mailing themselves all over the world and solving mysteries might appear periodically.

Ricky is a creative type. He’d like to write. Maybe I should write about working as a delivery driver. I’ll write about what I know.

The key?

Just write.

Too much pressure to stay within a form or format can get in the way of writing every day.

Like today for example.

I was way late with my post about the porta pottie plot.

Why?

I didn’t want to write it.

I’d become bored with that idea and wanted to shift.

So if you want to be a writer, write every day.

Just write and keep going.

When you’re bored with writing?

Write.

No ideas?

Just write.

Grind it out.

If I learned anything in 2025 it would be the joy of endurance.

I rode my bike further than I ever imagined possible last year.

My most ambitious ride?

I failed.

In the 24 hour 214 mile ride, I lasted for 23 and 3/4 hours and rode 200 miles without sleep.

Though I came close, it was a failure.

i went on other rides that I completed. But this failure made those seem inconsequential.

By choosing to do something almost impossible and failing?

I ended up going further than I’d ever imagined.

So despite many successes along the way, I’m most proud of my failure.

Huge goal, came close and blew the doors off anything else I could attempt.

So, dear reader,

How big were your failures last year?

How close did you come?

Make it huge.

Fall short.

Enjoy the ride.

And then?

Then maybe you might end up lucky enough to spend your time cascading around the countryside in the comfort of an angry metal van.

Stay crusty you fools and enjoy your failures.