I never feel as peaceful as the moments when I'm cycling

That really made me laugh out loud in front of the computer! I used to shout stuff like that while snowboarding. 4000m above sea level, sunrise, no one else. You can just hear the wind and the snow underneath the board. Then comes the speed and you automatically shout as the euphoria kicks in!

i still do when skiing- esp when you have a mountain to yourself and your friends (see attachments- being a ski patroller rocks....) The first two are in order and poor quality as I nicked them off my friends facebook.
the last is a day when we climbed up to the crater and shut the mountain down late. Stunning day. NZ is never ever like that. I swear.

I don't shout much when cycling, but I can't help smiling at people who would normally get me angry and looking at people on the bus with a feeling of absolute contentment as they sit in they're 'cage' and I get battered by snow and winds, and walking into wherever it is I happen to be going and my cheeks burning and turning red with the warmth and the sly nod of a fellow bike commuter in the British Library, or at Tescos. Or the sense of happiness when i see the same women on Sloane St with her Bakfiets and 4 kids in it, or the joy when riding in oxfordshire and another cyclist crests the hill on a winter's morning and waves. Or the feeling of pushing through a pain barrier as you chase down a red car, or......

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