Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 17, 2016

Watch out a Blank trying to evade the NSA watch system…

I’m surprised he even has a car. I figured he’d think it was too lazy or effete or some such.

We must all live inside our own self-delusive dreams. Frazz is fanatical in the support of his. I admire his single focus on exercise. Is he right? Are the rest of us who do not believe in “no pain, no gain” doomed? Tune in later.

Sitting doesn’t count as exercise, does it?

Depends on what you’re sitting on. Cactus-sitting counts.

Ah yes, the excuses you can come up with when something non-essential to your ride breaks.

I recently did my first “official” metric century (100 km.) at age 66. I often rode farther than that in my youth, but didn’t have a fancy gadget to measure it, just paper maps (remember those?). Frazz is right: the joy is in the riding, and knowing you’ve done the best you can at the moment.

“If he is the best, with whom does he compete?”“With himself.”

And frankly, that’s the only competition that matters.

scaevaI feel that way about sports. The only ones I am interested in are the situation and I competing: backpacking, kayaking, camping, etc. Probably why I am still functioning at 83.

He’s been seen using a car to get himself and his bike to a place where he was going to ride. Riding your bike to the triathalon or the special, out of the way trail he’s going to with a buddy. And it was an unpretentious one, that gets him where he needs to go but looks like the average janitor’s car and not indicative of the money he has from his songwriting.