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I am so looking forward to my bike ride! I leave for Las Vegas on April 7th and have a ticket to take me from Washington DC back to Miami on May 23rd. Somehow, in between those two dates, I will find some way to cycle my ass from point A to point B. I am in the process of getting a camera so I can document and share the entire ride. Stay tuned!
Once I get the camera, I will take some pictures of the Everglades, where I have been training. In the past two weeks, I have fallen off my bike twice. For those of you not familiar with cycling, I have these special "clipless pedals" that allow my shoes to snap into the pedals, kind of like how ski boots snap onto skis. Since your shoes are basically attached to the pedals, it's pretty easy to fall if you have to break quickly and are not yet used to snapping your feet back out of the pedals. I am not yet used to this. One of the falls was so bad and so painful that I thought I might have broken my leg. The other caused me to get a bunch of splinters in hands and arms.
During both falls, I was terrified that I might have fallen on to, or next to, an alligator. Thankfully, I was no where near one (and there are always lots of them around). This is the weirdness of cycling in the Everglades.
Once I get the camera, I will take some pictures of the Everglades, where I have been training. In the past two weeks, I have fallen off my bike twice. For those of you not familiar with cycling, I have these special "clipless pedals" that allow my shoes to snap into the pedals, kind of like how ski boots snap onto skis. Since your shoes are basically attached to the pedals, it's pretty easy to fall if you have to break quickly and are not yet used to snapping your feet back out of the pedals. I am not yet used to this. One of the falls was so bad and so painful that I thought I might have broken my leg. The other caused me to get a bunch of splinters in hands and arms.
During both falls, I was terrified that I might have fallen on to, or next to, an alligator. Thankfully, I was no where near one (and there are always lots of them around). This is the weirdness of cycling in the Everglades.