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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi everyone - it's OP again.

For those of you who are absolutely dying to know, yes, it's road cycling, and by extension, he dabbles in triathlons (olympic + half ironman), so he has 3 time consuming sports to train for. So the time spent away from the family for training + events is annoying enough, but it's the road biking that gets to me the most. Not to mention the $$$$ for all of the latest high end gear + bikes + travel.

Several of his riding buddies have gotten scraped up pretty badly over the years, and it's not unheard if you follow the sport to hear of people gravely injured or killed as well. I'm sorry but whoever said it is just as safe as running is just plain wrong - any sport where you are riding at high speeds (30-40+ mph) along with people driving 4000lb SUVs while texting is a serious risk. Even if you follow all of the rules and do everything "right", you will never win an argument against a car (or a pothole on a sharp downhill turn).

And yes, he is also into all of the indoor biking options, but in the warmer months prefers to be outside. But right now he is dealing with multiple broken bones and a head injury with short-term memory and cognition issues, so I need to accompany him to all of his doctors appointments.

I guess I'm not really sure what I'm asking here. Just venting. Thank you to those of you who have shared similar stories and can relate :)

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"Head injury with short-term memory and cognition issues."

Drop the mic right there.

Screw the "he loves this and it completes him" crap he and others will claim. THAT injury should be his wake-up call to stop the intense stuff. I'd enlist a doctor I'd talked to beforehand and privately primed to give DH a strong come-to-Jesus smackdown about how a second head injury could end up much worse. These things accumulate. In ways affecting not just his riding but his ability to hold a job, parent your kids, function day to day. Time to grow up.

And despite the whole idea of how adults just have to make their own choices even if those choices are dangerous -- Hell no. Adults who have a spouse and kids have to consider the effects of their choices on those people. Your DH is arrogant and probably figures his riding Is Who I Am!, when he should be thinking about how he could easily screw the whole family, not just himself, next time there's an injury. [/quote]

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