Comments on: Things Pro’s Say: “Super Sensations”

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:06:16 +0000

I’m gonna copyright that!!!!!!!

I HATE my cublice ;(

By: cbrady

cbrady — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:09:56 +0000

I think I like “He tenido buenas sensaciones” – I feel a t-shirt coming on.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:42:08 +0000

This is actually just a funny translation of a Spanish “falso amigo”.

In English, we would say “I was feeling really good”. To say the same in Spanish would be “He tenido buenas sensaciones”.

When directly translated by a mechanical translator of some sort, the word “sensations” comes out. But that is just an example of the nuances in between different languages.

By: cbrady

cbrady — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:09:02 +0000

This is too good. I like the idea of fear triggering Super Sensations. Hard to adopt to pack riding, but I am going to think about it for a while before giving up. We could position dogs at key parts of the coarse…..

By: jmg

jmg — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:00:20 +0000

I’m not a racer, so I don’t think I’ll ever have the super sensations (surely testoterone and a really elevated heart rate contribute to that feeling). But, I do know the feeling of good sensations. Recently, after a stretch of three or four bad rides — rides that felt slow, without purpose and generally uninspired — I found myself flying uphill. I passed a house with a dog that sometimes gives me some trouble because when he chases, I’m suffering up the hill and I worry about not being able to outrun him. The dog didn’t arrive, but it didn’t matter, when I noticed that I was at that house I felt fantastic and I was absolutely rolling along. Levity – is the word and I was riding with levity (insofar as one’s legs rather than one’s mood might be lighthearted). I didn’t have to look to my computer to know it (though I did) – I was riding up that hill faster than I ever have and I wasn’t so much as winded. The feeling died before I made it home, but by then I was just sort of spinning and cooling down. I can absolutely identify and remember how that felt – those were good sensations.