Each to his own. You don't need our approval for what you enjoy doing.
The single most important skill in MUni is freemounting. 2, 3 or 10
miles from the start of the ride, and you are struggling to remount:
horrible. Failing to freemount is exhausting and demoralising.
My own tactic is to ride fairly easy stuff and to allow myself to be
tempted to divert onto the more difficult stuff. This way I get the
satisfaction (and general practice) of riding substantial distances,
whilst gradually pushing the limits. This tactic has led me to:
- Ride 50 mile days from time to time.
- Ride more and more difficult off road stuff.
- Buy, er... too many unicycles. 8 at the last count, not including
the two I've sold and the ultimate wheel that we never mention.
There are three basic approaches to MUni:
- Ride as far as you can over mixed and difficult terrain. I call
this cross country.
- Spend all day doing ever more difficult things within a small
area.
- Ride long easy distances, stopping every so often to session a
particularly gnarly rock to the max. You may read irony into my
adoption of the patois of the youthful.
I go for the first, but that's me.
If you choose to do it, your unicycle will regularly take you on 10 and
20 mile journeys of exploration: exploration in the geographical sense,
and in the sense of self-knowledge. The loneliness of the long
distance unicyclist... it's a sport where you set your own limits, then
choose to exceed them. Watch a Kris Holm video and weep, or read one
of my ride write ups and weep for rather different reasons.
But the main thing is to ride.
--
Mikefule
"The world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls, and
on the other the devils in it."
Arthur "Cheery" Schopenhauer
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