Pertaining to 'riding a horse' from the perspective of the 'horse' that is to be 'ridden'; The spirit is willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised.

I pity not those at the upper echelon of sports but all those who are at equal risk with modest to minimal income from enacting oneself to the sport without exorbitant salaries as evident in the top most leauges wherein the income is extremely rightly skewed.