bicycle
So we traded out my bike recently. Sold the old red mountain bike that I got handed down from Cam for 139 bucks on craigslist. To replace it, we bought this other bicycle that's more suited to my needs. It's somewhere between a road bike and a cruiser. It's blue, with a basket, it's got a narrow saddle (unfortunately), and it has 18 gears with a new derailleur that the previous owners had recently installed.
So yesterday I decide to ride it to a meeting at the new Beaverton office, 10 miles each way. The weather has been fantastic all week, and yesterday was no exception. I threw on my blue cotton dress with the sash, my green tennis, and my purple helmet, thre my purse and a nalgene into the bike's basket, and was ready to roll.
I rode it up palatine, up terwilliger, across I-5, turning left at barber to take the street next to fred meyer up to beaverton-hillsdale highway, and straight down that to the office. Most of the route was actually pretty ok. There's really only a few miles of BHH that don't have bike lanes, and most folks just passed me by. Traffic wasn't very heavy, which I'm sure helped. The way back was tougher, mostly because I had travelled further (obviously), but more importantly I was now going up BHH instead of down. I had to stop a couple times on the way for breaks, and I was going much much slower, but I did make it all the way home.
Man, I was so tired afterwords. On the other hand, if I can do a ride like that even once a week I'll be in fantastic shape for the bridge pedal.
So yesterday I decide to ride it to a meeting at the new Beaverton office, 10 miles each way. The weather has been fantastic all week, and yesterday was no exception. I threw on my blue cotton dress with the sash, my green tennis, and my purple helmet, thre my purse and a nalgene into the bike's basket, and was ready to roll.
I rode it up palatine, up terwilliger, across I-5, turning left at barber to take the street next to fred meyer up to beaverton-hillsdale highway, and straight down that to the office. Most of the route was actually pretty ok. There's really only a few miles of BHH that don't have bike lanes, and most folks just passed me by. Traffic wasn't very heavy, which I'm sure helped. The way back was tougher, mostly because I had travelled further (obviously), but more importantly I was now going up BHH instead of down. I had to stop a couple times on the way for breaks, and I was going much much slower, but I did make it all the way home.
Man, I was so tired afterwords. On the other hand, if I can do a ride like that even once a week I'll be in fantastic shape for the bridge pedal.