bike log, 4/1
Apr. 2nd, 2021 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eiriasI’ve been out on the bike three times so far this year.
Three weeks ago, bikes fresh from our spring tune-up, the whole family biked out to the Olbrich playground, maybe 4-5 miles round trip. It felt great. No soreness, no dysfluency from a few months’ hibernation — this is what’s meant by “it’s like riding a bike.”
Two weeks ago we went up the Starkweather path to one of the playgrounds along it. Had some tailbone soreness, I think, and then just as I was climbing the ramp to cross East Wash on the return, I noticed my seat was coming loose!! And like a fool I didn’t have any tools on me. I wound up having to walk it home. Lesson: bring an Allen wrench.
Yesterday I had a nice milestone: I went out with H, just the two of us. Last season I hadn’t felt able to keep half an eye on her because I didn’t have half an eye to spare, but this year both of us are more competent. We went up to Tenney for a park play date with her best friend and her dad. A short ride, maybe two-three miles round trip, but it felt like freedom.
Yesterday was also my first outing with my brand spanky new panniers. I splurged on Ortlieb and I am not sorry. A gorgeous pair of back rollers in robin’s-egg blue. I fit a book, a pair of galoshes, two balls, a carton of pneumatic rocket toys, several jump ropes, a pair of binoculars, my bike lock, and my purse. Stupidly, I did not pack an Allen wrench (but happily I did not need one).
In other positive news, I am now half Modernized.
Three weeks ago, bikes fresh from our spring tune-up, the whole family biked out to the Olbrich playground, maybe 4-5 miles round trip. It felt great. No soreness, no dysfluency from a few months’ hibernation — this is what’s meant by “it’s like riding a bike.”
Two weeks ago we went up the Starkweather path to one of the playgrounds along it. Had some tailbone soreness, I think, and then just as I was climbing the ramp to cross East Wash on the return, I noticed my seat was coming loose!! And like a fool I didn’t have any tools on me. I wound up having to walk it home. Lesson: bring an Allen wrench.
Yesterday I had a nice milestone: I went out with H, just the two of us. Last season I hadn’t felt able to keep half an eye on her because I didn’t have half an eye to spare, but this year both of us are more competent. We went up to Tenney for a park play date with her best friend and her dad. A short ride, maybe two-three miles round trip, but it felt like freedom.
Yesterday was also my first outing with my brand spanky new panniers. I splurged on Ortlieb and I am not sorry. A gorgeous pair of back rollers in robin’s-egg blue. I fit a book, a pair of galoshes, two balls, a carton of pneumatic rocket toys, several jump ropes, a pair of binoculars, my bike lock, and my purse. Stupidly, I did not pack an Allen wrench (but happily I did not need one).
In other positive news, I am now half Modernized.