Motivation and Injury: Would you be tempted to hang up your wheels?

There is one thing you can almost guarantee when you begin to exercise on a regular basis. Injury. Despite all the warm ups and stretching, sometimes we get injured when we are training - either through our own fault or someone else's. Sometimes it is compounded if we decide to work out when we know we should rest. But there is another aspect to exercise. Would you still be tempted to exercise if you couldn't do it in the "normal" way anymore?

Summer days bring immense heat and pressure to Perth living. We are still officially in spring, but the temperatures bely that fact, which probably explains why the lycra brigade, the runners, the bikers, and anything that move n shoot was out and about early this morning.

One group of cyclists caught my attention though. Males, females, families, youths, every size, shape and persuasion had joined the mass movement around the Swan river this morning. But the person who really captured my attention was the gentleman at the back of the pack. It was obvious from the set of his face, his jerky movements that he had suffered some kind of seizure - a stroke, paralysis - or similar. But rather than hang up his wheels he had his bike converted - to a trike. A light weight racing frame - on three wheels. Would you still be willing to go the distance if you had been dealt the same kind of fate? Or would you hang up your wheels?