Bike riding adventures!

I have recently started riding a bike to and from work. This goes against just about all I believe in. I think bike riders tend to be douchebags (mainly the people who wear all that spandex and those awful, small shoes and hog up entire lanes while I am driving) and exercise in the mornings is about the most horrific thing I can think of. But one day when I wanted to go to gym with a work friend, I realised I had 30 mins to get from work to gym in order to make the class and for me to catch the train home then walk to gym it’d take a good 45 minutes. She suggested I take her bike since she finished work earlier and she would walk, I would ride and we’d both make the class on time. Oh. My. God. How scary! I decided to give it a ago, as I didn’t want to look like a wuss and I really did want to make the class.

Well the bike ride changed my life, in a very good way. Sure it was scary and I almost fell off it a couple of times, but it was so exhilirating to zoom down hills on a bike, going faster than all the cars stuck in peak hour traffic and knowing I don’t have to put up with that bastard train for once. I made it gym in excellent time, despite going an obscure way and going pretty slowly for the most part. I decided then and there I needed to do this more often and that I needed a bike ASAP. Of course I wanted a slick Townie bike (like from http://www.ewfarmbikes.com.au) but as it happened a work mate had one at work that he never used and after some begging he gave it to me to test out. Sadly this bike was in poor shap as the brakes had about had it so I couldn’t use it right away. BUT he did give me a helmet and so I arranged to get the brakes fixed ASAP. I sort of slacked off though, til another work mate offered me his bike which was a nicer colour (sapphire blue) and had working brakes!

Unfortunately in this time I sort of chickened out of riding to and from work again. Mostly because it’d mean I’d need a backpack and I don’t do backpacks. Then I got an amazing new handbag which came with a shoulder strap. No more excuses! So I rode the blue bike home the other afternoon and once again fell in love with riding bikes. I also found a bike path that starts near work and takes me a block from home so I miss all traffic and get to ride through a park, which made it an even nicer trip.

But was I going to be able to ride TO work? Like I said, morning exercise is pretty much unbearable to me, so it was a huge hurdle to overcome. But I did it this morning! I got up a bit earlier and forced myself to ride my bike to work! It wasn’t nearly as fun as riding home from work but it wasn’t bad at all. I also worked out another shortcut to make life a little bit easier too. It’s done wonders to my day, I’ve been in a good mood all day and didn’t need an energy drink at all today, I was full of natualy enegry for once. Oh and not catching those dreaded trains in the morning is just too good to be true.

I’m getting an awesome little bike from the work mate who gave me his blue bike, which is going to cost me virtually nothing! I don’t know if it can be riden to and from work but when I do ride it, I will look cool as.

Mirrored from rubyvelour.com.