My story.

[SAM83]

CONGRATULATIONS BUD!!! 200!

Way....to....go my friend. A round of well deserved congratulations on the double hundy! :-)

200 is fantastic, +1 at a time!

Congrats on the double hundy!

[slug.go]

CONGRATULATIONS BUD!!! 200!

Way....to....go my friend. A round of well deserved congratulations on the double hundy! :-)

200 is fantastic, +1 at a time!

[ZillahCowboy]

CONGRATULATIONS BUD!!! 200!

Way....to....go my friend. A round of well deserved congratulations on the double hundy! :-)

[Steakbomb18]

CONGRATULATIONS BUD!!! 200!

Way to go KCM - not a single post-ride dip in 200 days. Congrats!

[Knockout]

CONGRATULATIONS BUD!!! 200!

[SAM83]

Nice 150 over the weekend!!! Flaming 151 shots today:-)

[MN_Ben]

Congrats on hitting the HOF.

Nice work!

Congrats!!!

[Ginet]

Congrats on hitting the HOF.

Nice work!

[slinger]

Congrats on hitting the HOF.

[SAM83]

Congrats on the Hundy today! See you at 101!

[pbrain04]

Fuck dip man.

words to live by

[KindCanMan]

I feel like I've been a bit quit on my personal thread so I figured it's about time for an update. Last week was a breeze this week has been a little more difficult. It's not that I'm having cravings, I'm just thinking about dip a lot more. I'm not dreaming about it, but I am having some whacky dreams - when I sleep. I'm barely sleeping lately. I don't know how much of that is due to the quit or due to my dog just being an amazingly effective barrier dead in the middle of the bed. I swear he gets up and changes positions 30-40 times a night. I also believe this is some crazy ploy to get me out of the bed. He wants my wife all to himself, that rat bastard.

Anyways, enough rambling.

I've been getting bumped a lot recently. I do my best to double check my role call everyday but I've had some busy days where I wasn't able to check as often as usual. I want to apologize for that. I promise to try to keep up better.

Yesterday, I was at the knee surgeon trying to avoid having surgery. If there was any one point in time I really wanted a dip to just chill the eff out - it was yesterday.

The one thing that the fake stuff has taught me is that it's not the habit of dipping that I crave, it's the nic, and I wasn't getting a buzz anymore when I was still dipping...so what the fuck is the point? Why go back to that? I liked it, I enjoyed it, sure. I also like Coca Cola, and I like swordfish and I'd really love to have a new Subaru Cross Trek, or to build a new house... you don't always need or get what you want. Right?

Fuck dip man.

[KindCanMan]

Bahahaha! Thanks CowmanDoodBro..

[ZillahCowboy]

Day 15...way to go. Keep cycling through this epic quit. Them horse and cow guys are watching you! ;-)

[SAM83]

So in a cyclist. Something we do as cyclists that a lot of people don't understand is that we shave our legs. We don't do it for aerodynamics like most people think, technicall, having hair on your legs is more aerodynamic (think dimples on a golf ball).

We do it for tradition. For as long as people have been racing bicycles they have been shaving their legs. They did it to make post race massages easier, they did it to make cleaning tar and debris from road rash easier. They did it show off the muscles they worked hard to create.

It's become a tradition for me to have a dip while I shaved and since I started dipping, to my knowledge, I had not shaved without a dip.

Friday was my first dip less shave.

My tradition has changed and to be honest it didn't feel right. That was probably my hardest urge since day one but I managed to get through it. I had received a text from Horseman earlier in the day and he was such a great asset in my Friday quit. He and Zillah have been checking in with me and I can't thank them enough for that.

Here is to new traditions with Zillah, with Horseman and with the rest of my brothers and sisters of quit.

Bastards 04'14

It amazes me how ingrained the poison was to our daily routines and life events. My buddy and I made venison sausage a couple of nights this past week. I had a real similar conversation with him. I had never done this without tobacco, it felt like something was actually missing from the experience. Weird and all in my head. It was a blast, the sausage turned out great and I did not have to take a dip out when we fried some up to test the batches. Quit on!

Do cycle for pleasure and/or race? Road or Mountain? I used to do both for pleasure, now pretty much just mountain bike for exercise.

Sam, sorry I missed this... I race a bit, I actually own a bicycle company. So i do a bit of everything : road, mountain, cross.

Figured it out when I viewed you profile no sweat! B)