10K Monday

[halloweenjack]

Did the round trip to work and back today, although not necessarily on purpose... missed the bus, which I was planning on taking there.  But it wasn't too bad; I even went up the incline on Knoxville north of Lake, which I had thought that I'd have to walk. It didn't kill me or even wipe me out as much as the mile or so that I rode back from the repair shop, just last week. I'm getting my bike legs back, I think.

I'm enjoying what I missed about cycling, which is that I'm going slow enough to really see things, but fast enough not to get tired of the experience. Cycling gives me more of a chance to interact with my environment. I rode past some public school lunch ladies who were picketing in protest of proposed outsourcing of the school lunch program. If I hadn't been riding, I probably wouldn't have ever seen them.

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[veracity1.livejournal.com]

Yes, I get it. Had to take my car into the shop a couple of weeks ago and took my bike with me to ride the seven miles back home. The good fortune is that it is mostly flat until I get to my neighborhood. It was the first time I had ridden in real traffic in a few years. It was a little hairy in places where the road was quite narrow *no bike paths* and it went by a high school at start up time. A shame that more of those kids weren't doing the same with the state of physical health and gas prices.

[kwsapphire.livejournal.com]

That sounds cool. How do you keep from getting sweaty before work tho? I'd like to ride my bike to work, but I've always worked too far, and even when I worked within about 7 miles it was still seven miles down a state road with no sidewalk. :P

[jackolantern.livejournal.com]

How do you keep from getting sweaty before work tho?

Well... I don't, really. Two things that can help, though, besides it being cooler in the morning: 1) give myself plenty of time to get to work, so that I don't have to really crank it, and 2) wear a T-shirt for the ride, change into my work shirt and tie, and then back into the T-shirt for the ride home. It helps if I have someplace to hang the T-shirt up to dry.

[kwsapphire.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, that makes sense then ^_^