Your greatest life accomplishment: Let's hear them!

[Maxspeedwell]

I'd like to hear what others have done in life.
What's your greatest accomplishment?

A race?
A build?
A woman?
A time in your life?

When you're 101 years old
and struggling for each breath from the resperator,
what will be going through your mind? What will
you think of that causes bliss, joy, or a sense of
accomplishment?

No self deprocation allowed.

Be bold!

Show it, or tell it!

I'll sit back and let someone else start....

-Max

[DCT]

Teaching thousands of people how to play tennis.
Some of my students I taught when they were 4 or 5 all the way until they went to college.

[ron l edmiston]

--- tammy & ashley for sure, but:

those that came back with me & knowing that killing & more killing always destroys the innocent..

ronnie still basting/roasting

[joosttx]

learning family is more important than anything else in life. Then, it's slam dunking a basketball at 28. 360 slam dunking at 18.

[Bruce Day]

Flying jets for multiple combat tours over 27 years from Vietnam through post Gulf War.

Sherman, later paraphrased by Patton, addressed his soldiers upon the conclusion of the Civil War saying that when they were old and their young grandchild was sitting on their knee and asked "Grandpa what did you do in the war". He stated that they could look them in the eye and say they rode with Gen. Sherman through Georgia.

I flew with the Air Force over North Vietnam.

[Lionel]

Owning a Sachs road bike

[David Tollefson]

Two beautiful daughters.

[Justin@BlackOakVelo]

So far, it's my family and happiness.

[dashDustin]

Step kids are still in the making.

On my deathbed, TX4000.

[Matthew Strongin]

Quitting smoking. Seriously one of the hardest things I've ever done and the single accomplishment that put my life back on the right track, out of unhealthy patterns to making the right choices more often than not.

[zetroc]

I'm with Houston: my greatest accomplishment has been learning about what's important. Life is too short to deal with the shit that isn't.

[Shinomaster]

4th place in a C race.

[bking]

34 years with one woman, looking forward to all the rest; 6 kids--3 married, seven grandkids, pretty happy and balanced, and they love to come home. nothing else in the same horizon.

[Matthew Strongin]

4th place in a C race.

A few years ago I got beaten at the line by maybe a rim's width in a B race. First place got a bunch of cash. Second place got 15 bucks to cover the registration fee and a bottle of wine. That was the most enjoyable bottle of wine I've ever had. I've had better races, but not better memories of racing.

[Gattonero]

After starting a business I didn't like and working 60-70hrs a week for 10 yrs, one day I said "well, enough" and moved to London.
Rebuilt my life from scratch, learned a lot on many fronts, it's a tough game here.
Not saying I'm arrived, or maybe, in my own critical view, not even accomplished anything that great? Am safe and my life rolls well the way I want it to. It is a good thing

[Philster]

Still working on it. I'll let you know.

[Shinomaster]

A few years ago I got beaten at the line by maybe a rim's width in a B race. First place got a bunch of cash. Second place got 15 bucks to cover the registration fee and a bottle of wine. That was the most enjoyable bottle of wine I've ever had. I've had better races, but not better memories of racing.

Funny, I would have gotten third and a box of cliff bars in my race but I over shifted in the sprint and couldn't turn my pedals over fast enough.. Hmmm.. maybe I've done better things in my life.

[Bewheels]

Wife and kid.

60 days riding self-sustained from Portland (Oregon) to Boston before there were all the bike maps that exist now on a 1984 Mt Fuji (did the ride in 1985).

Knowing when to close 3 businesses that I had started.

Competing in a MTB World Cup race during an Olympic year. Had two goals: qualify into the final (done), get randomly drug tested (didn't happen - I guess they don't bother testing guys that come in last). While I had been in many high level MTB races, racing in a MTB world cup in the 90's was awesome.

My wife and were able to get our respective health crazy shit back together after 10 years of various weirdness. The result...now back on the bike.

[holliscx]

A buddy and I vectored the neighborhood going mailbox by mailbox on our bikes until we found someone with a subscription to Playboy.

[mnoble485]

I started drinking at 14 and at 35 I was at the end of a 5 year run on heroin. Made the decision to go to rehab for 30 days to "get the monkey off". 4/28/85 was the last day I used. All good things in my life come from that decision. Wife, step kids that like me, grand kids that love me and a great job.

Mike

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