Just like riding a... a...
Sep. 9th, 2008 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quasigeostrophy...a bicycle! That's it!
Finally got on the road bike this afternoon, first time in at least two years, I think.
I was a bit wobbly at first, but I think I'm at my heaviest (and with my black shorts, yellow day-glo jersey, and black and yellow helmet, I probably looked like a giant bee), and it didn't take long to acclimate. To remember the feelings of loving coasting downhill and hating climbing uphill, no matter how shallow either way. Of traveling along on a machine by (mostly, with a little help from gravity now and then) my own power. And getting the ol' Krebs cycle going again.
I was only out for half an hour, and only put in four miles, but it's four miles more than I'd ridden in a long time.
I had a headache and some slight indigestion before deciding for certain to go out, and I've still got the latter, but when I came home from school I decided it was too nice a day not to go. I'm tired but feel decent otherwise, although I wish I'd remembered my gloves. I realized toward the end of the ride that my hands were getting a bit red from leaning on the handlebars, and didn't realize forgetting my gloves contributed to that until I got back in the house.
Finally got on the road bike this afternoon, first time in at least two years, I think.
I was a bit wobbly at first, but I think I'm at my heaviest (and with my black shorts, yellow day-glo jersey, and black and yellow helmet, I probably looked like a giant bee), and it didn't take long to acclimate. To remember the feelings of loving coasting downhill and hating climbing uphill, no matter how shallow either way. Of traveling along on a machine by (mostly, with a little help from gravity now and then) my own power. And getting the ol' Krebs cycle going again.
I was only out for half an hour, and only put in four miles, but it's four miles more than I'd ridden in a long time.
I had a headache and some slight indigestion before deciding for certain to go out, and I've still got the latter, but when I came home from school I decided it was too nice a day not to go. I'm tired but feel decent otherwise, although I wish I'd remembered my gloves. I realized toward the end of the ride that my hands were getting a bit red from leaning on the handlebars, and didn't realize forgetting my gloves contributed to that until I got back in the house.
