Comments | zuvembi: If I could walk 500 miles

zuvembi

If I could walk 500 miles

Jan 09, 2006 13:24

My bike odometer ticked over 25000 miles sometime before the new year. It's kind of amusing thinking that I've cycled the equivalent of once about the earth. Granted not anything like to the moon and back. But not bad for someone who has been very very overweight for most of their life ( Read more... )

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obnox January 10 2006, 05:52:57 UTC

Yay! good for you!

zuvembi January 12 2006, 17:56:11 UTC

Thanks. I'm looking forward to parts for my extracycle showing up today and tomorrow. Then I can start doing my grocery shopping by bike again, which will be really nice.

ouij January 10 2006, 14:11:59 UTC

ugh.

I'm off the bike again because of a reversion to carpool duty. Being at home & having to take care of younger siblings is deleterious to cycling where/when you want. Responsibility takes away a fair amount of independence.

As far as cycling role-models, I was always more taken by the British working-class "get on yer bike" mentality....the grannies going to sunday morning services on creaking Raleigh 20s, and so forth.

zuvembi January 12 2006, 18:04:27 UTC

I certainly understand about the younger siblings thing. My mileage is definitely down this year due to family responsibility. One thing I'm hoping will help is I'm building up an Xtracycle off an MTB frame. This will let me get shopping done on the bike while easily dragging a person along.

/sigh

I have partaken of some of that mentality. Now when I cycle to work it's not instead of driving, it's just how I get there. But I know I'm really a bike fetishist in comparison.

Speaking of cycling to work, we're having record rains here. Lots and lots and lots of rain. I bought a pair of rubber overboots and cut out some sole for my cycling cleats. They are the bomb. I cycled to work yesterday in a deluge and other than some dampness near my ankle, my feet were toasty warm and dry. Mmmmmm.

I'll post an entry later about my uber-fredliness. With pics!

ouij January 12 2006, 21:50:01 UTC

lemme guess, cheap Berghaus gaiters? in green?

The British army seems to have surplused an assload of them, since my local surplus/paramilitary store had them by the crate last month.