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Bike Day 3
Oct. 15th, 2005 11:17 amYeah, at some point I'm going to stop thinking of these as "events" :-) But...
The cats actually let me sleep in until 9. I fed them and, feeling intensely out of sorts, went out to ride my bike, so as to blow some of the bleah out of my head.
And it worked, to a certain extent. The field I ususlly start off in was boggy from all the rain, so I went straight to trail riding and went west on the Accotink Creek Trail from Prosperity to Pickett and back again, then from Prosperity to Woodburn. I passed a number of people, went over three bridges (twice each, though Rupert insisted on running into the side rail of the last one rather hard, leaving me with handlebar stomach). Took about an hour or so. I successfully persuaded the bike not to run off the trail at several points, and not to hit several pedestrians. On the whole, though, this was too late in the day for me to be out on the trail--too many people. I stopped and talked to an elderly couple who were out walking who are very afraid of bikes. I am very afraid of pedestrians at this point! I need to spend some more time practicing in empty parking lots, or on the trail when there aren't many people about.
But I had a good time, and I feel slightly better than I was this morning.
The cats actually let me sleep in until 9. I fed them and, feeling intensely out of sorts, went out to ride my bike, so as to blow some of the bleah out of my head.
And it worked, to a certain extent. The field I ususlly start off in was boggy from all the rain, so I went straight to trail riding and went west on the Accotink Creek Trail from Prosperity to Pickett and back again, then from Prosperity to Woodburn. I passed a number of people, went over three bridges (twice each, though Rupert insisted on running into the side rail of the last one rather hard, leaving me with handlebar stomach). Took about an hour or so. I successfully persuaded the bike not to run off the trail at several points, and not to hit several pedestrians. On the whole, though, this was too late in the day for me to be out on the trail--too many people. I stopped and talked to an elderly couple who were out walking who are very afraid of bikes. I am very afraid of pedestrians at this point! I need to spend some more time practicing in empty parking lots, or on the trail when there aren't many people about.
But I had a good time, and I feel slightly better than I was this morning.
