The new biking season

[pegkerr]

I told the HR people to cancel my parking contract starting May 1, so I guess I'm committing to starting biking again. I realize I haven't done nearly enough to get ready. I'd hoped to be able to buy new wheels for my bike, but I'm dead broke (maybe when the tax refund arrives). I have to see if there is air in the tires at least! And I have to clean a lot of all that crap that Rob's been piling into the garage out so that I can actually reach my bike in the morning without having to pull my car in and out of the garage.

I feel uneasy about starting. Rob is working now and so won't be able to rescue me if I get a flat. But the price of gas is absolutely killing me, I need the workout, and I know I'll enjoy it once I start again.

I also admit, I am going to deeply regret the extra half hour early I'll have to wake up each morning to show up on time to work. I'm short enough on sleep as it is.

Yeah, yeah, johnridley, I know, I'm a wuss, and my concerns and ditherings are no doubt a mere bagatelle to you.

At least I'm getting back up on the bike.

Comments

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Didn't fall off. Swore. Didn't cry. Walked the bike to the first secure-looking bike rack I could see at the edge of campus and left it there for the day, because I didn't have time to walk home with it and then back to work. (I live 1.3 km - just under a mile - from the job that's about to disappear.) Tonight I walked it home, tried to pump it up, tried to find the leak, and decided that maybe I'd take it to a bike store tomorrow and leave it for a tune-up too.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry your first day out turned out to be such a bummer. I hope that you have lots of good with riding in the days to come to outweigh the bad.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

And you too! I look forward to reading about it!

When I visited Minneapolis last spring, I felt like I was visiting some literary setting when I rode the train and saw those bike-hanging hooks you had described. Then I went to the big mall that Pamela Dean had written about her characters Christmas-shopping in, and the feeling intensified.