Debate: Israel ride?
Dec. 31st, 2008 05:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI'm pondering whether I should sign up for this year's ride.
It was an amazing experience last year, I met wonderful people, and physically challenged myself to an extent I'd not done before.
However, it would require a bunch of time off from work (ah, the bittersweet: the job affords the leisure...(assuming a renewed contract *evil-eye-warding-off motion here*)), and working back into shape even earlier this year if I do the spring ride again: it starts April 28, about a month earlier than this year - it will be that much more difficult to be in shape for, given the challenges of seasonal riding. Just four months, most of them snowy. Yes, there's the gym, but exercise bikes are only a pale approximation of road riding. If I do the fall ride, that's less of an issue, but the likelihood of riding in rain for at least the first two days (in northern Israel! Which would be neat, though the completist in me prefers a continuous route.) is a bit of a deterrent (I avoid riding in rain here, too.).
There's also the fundraising challenge, which is not a small thing either ($3600 is the same as last year, but with more people I know having been laid off or otherwise feeling the effects of a tanking economy, it may well be more difficult, despite my greater enthusiasm for the recipient organizations now that I'm more familiar with their works).
*ponders*
It was an amazing experience last year, I met wonderful people, and physically challenged myself to an extent I'd not done before.
However, it would require a bunch of time off from work (ah, the bittersweet: the job affords the leisure...(assuming a renewed contract *evil-eye-warding-off motion here*)), and working back into shape even earlier this year if I do the spring ride again: it starts April 28, about a month earlier than this year - it will be that much more difficult to be in shape for, given the challenges of seasonal riding. Just four months, most of them snowy. Yes, there's the gym, but exercise bikes are only a pale approximation of road riding. If I do the fall ride, that's less of an issue, but the likelihood of riding in rain for at least the first two days (in northern Israel! Which would be neat, though the completist in me prefers a continuous route.) is a bit of a deterrent (I avoid riding in rain here, too.).
There's also the fundraising challenge, which is not a small thing either ($3600 is the same as last year, but with more people I know having been laid off or otherwise feeling the effects of a tanking economy, it may well be more difficult, despite my greater enthusiasm for the recipient organizations now that I'm more familiar with their works).
*ponders*
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Date: 2009-01-01 02:28 am (UTC)Perhaps think of the ride as something you might do every other year?