Addiction

In a recent conversation with the C, we spoke of my time spent riding on the bike. I was pressed and pressed and finally realized that I have a problem.

Addiction is defined as the condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something. Alcoholics Anonymous developed and used a twelve step program. The twelve-step program is a set of guiding principles for recovery from addictive, compulsive, or other behavioral problems (taken from www.wikipedia.com).

I am an addict. I need help so I have started these twelve steps.

I have modified the twelve steps for me and my addiction.
1. I admit I am powerless over riding my bike—that my life has become unmanageable.
2. I have come to believe that a Power greater than myself could restore me to sanity.
3. I have made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God.
4. I have made a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself.
5. I have admitted to God, to myself, and to the C the exact nature of my wrongs.
6. I am entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. I humbly ask Him to remove my obsession with sitting on a bike for hours.
8. I have made a list of all persons I have harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. I have made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. I Continue to take personal inventory and when I am taken by furvor to ride, I promptly admit it.
11. I have sought through prayer and meditation to improve my relationship with God.
12. I am having a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, I am trying to carry this message to all bikaholics, and to practice these principles in all my affairs.

Here, openly I am admitting I have a problem. I am an addict to cycling.

Can I get a witness? Or maybe a sponsor would be better and more appropriate?

By the way, see ya on the road.