I should have indicated that I DO have a "reality voice" telling me that she might not like it all. However, as a family, we've been going down to the river near our house and riding the graded jogging trails with my W on my old beater-bike and my D5 on her. There's a little strip of single-track trail there with a dry creek bed crossing that I've been coaching my D5 to cross. The fact that she got to do it with her mom and dad both watching and cheering her on is a very big deal to her. I really just want to find one activity where personal fears can be overcome and then praised. I'm certain that my W will probably never join me on the kind of rides that I do now unless she really gets excited about it. I'm thinking that short, family rides on some of the dirt roads in the mountains can be part of a recreational repertoire. I feel compelled to put small, doable challenges in front of her that she feel good about achieving because she lives her life in fear.
Anywhere is walking distance if you have the time
-Steven Wright
