{"id":13678,"date":"2025-06-21T17:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T15:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=13678"},"modified":"2025-06-21T17:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T15:21:17","slug":"why-do-i-hike-and-cycle-in-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/why-do-i-hike-and-cycle-in-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do I Hike and Cycle in Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

The most beautiful sight I saw on today’s ride was a murder of crows sitting at a water fountain. They were there because it offered water. When I cycled by it forced them to take off and scatter. With them were a few birds of prey. If you have watched The Birds by Hitchcock then the experience would have been bad. For me it was the highlight of my solo ride.<\/p>\n

My habit of hiking and cycling might seem absurd. On Thursday I went on a group ride but spent quite a big portion of it cycling up a road to the top of part of the Jura in solitude. I was overtaken several times by people who cycle more than me, and when I got to the top I exchanged a few words, before heading back down, once again in solitude.<\/p>\n

Of course, that solitude came from one source. It was my first time with this group so we did not have much to talk about. If I persist with this group then we will have more opportunities for conversations.<\/p>\n

I was looking at event photos of a hike and I was reminded that I would like to see two women again. I want to see them again but not if it involves seeing a toxic person. If I say I hate something, I am not negative, I am venting. I am being healthy. I am looking for compassion and empathy. When I was shown apathy that made me never want to deal with that group again.<\/p>\n

I was thinking about why I prefer to cycle, rather than hike with people. I then realised that I enjoy hiking with people and cycling. Tomorrow I know of two hikes. Once is along the Areuse, and should be easy. The other is to the Tour D’a\u00ef and this is a hike that I really want to do. If I had not committed to hike 1 then I would very happilly do Hike 2.<\/p>\n

Today I hesitated between two bike rides and it’s when I arrived on the spot, and saw who was doing which hike that I easily chose which ride to do. I’m happy with the choice I made.<\/p>\n

I got to have good conversations and look forward to many more rides in future. I also got to explore a new route for getting home that does not involve climbing from the lake to the French border, and then riding across.<\/p>\n

The Pleasure of Being With the Right People<\/h2>\n

When I walked with the group last week on the hike I organised I derived pleasure from being with these people. I would say the same about the Nyon TDC ride, although due to the solitude this is a partial truth. I’m keen to go with them again.<\/p>\n

Today’s bike ride was a pleasure too. I’m getting to know people so I’m less reserved, less shy, more social. That’s why it’s good to go with groups regularly. Through familiarity conviviality will grow. Ironically I say this despite the group being quite large. It shows that when we’re in a good group, the experience is more pleasant.<\/p>\n

I have three groups that I want to do more activities with and that is pleasant. A good group is one that you walk away from feeling more isolated than when you joined them. A good group is one that you can leave, without feeling isolated and alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>The most beautiful sight I saw on today’s ride was a murder of crows sitting at a water fountain. They were there because it offered water. When I cycled by it forced them to take off and scatter. With them were a few birds of prey. If you have watched The Birds by Hitchcock then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[255],"tags":[733,6398,6598,496,226],"class_list":["post-13678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swiss-walks","tag-cycling","tag-friendships","tag-gosocial","tag-hiking","tag-meetup"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13679,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13678\/revisions\/13679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}