GOTEMBA, Japan (AP) — There was a time in America when thousands of fans would don their best suits and shirtwaists, their bowler hats and finest jewelry, and descend on Madison Square Garden in New York to watch the world's best cyclists.

There’s a metaphor here, if you want there to be, about how to structure your life to make things easy on yourself. Starting a bike tour is a hard decision, but once you’re on a bike, pedaling is all you can do. If you want to be able to do things that are hard, structure them so that the difficult choices are made up front, and the automatic action to take moves you towards your goal. Figuring out how to apply this lesson to your life is left as an exercise for the reader.

It is my hope that this will turn out to be a massive success and will lead to closure of other cross streets like 23rd, 34th, 42nd, 57th, 79th, 86th, and 96th.

The company is growing fast, adding roughly a million users a month, and it has lofty goals to expand far beyond its old identity as a platform for logging rides and runs. Can it succeed?

The bicycle, as we know it today, was not invented until the late 1800s. Here are some theories about why

What should exist and doesn’t

muscle recruitment mostly...this is heart of why observed peak VO2 consumption in cyclists runners nordic skiers. More muscle recruitment = higher absolute VO2 max uptake.

I can say “this hurts and it sucks” and also be content with what I can do. I have space in my head for the good and bad.