mousme: A view of a woman's legs from behind, wearing knee-high rainbow socks. The rest of the picture is black and white. (Bicycle)
mousme ([personal profile] mousme) wrote2009-03-17 03:01 pm
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Spring!

Okay, it's technically not spring until Friday, but I took out my bicycle today and rode it to work. I am very pleased.

I am not in quite as good shape as I was last summer when I was cycling every day, but I did make it all the way up the hill that gave me problems the first few times last year, so I feel vindicated.

It's a glorious day, and I am feeling very virtuous.

I do wish, however, that it hadn't taken quite as long for me to get my stuff together today. I had to get the bike out of the shed, find my panniers, fix the chain which had come off the... umm... spiky turny thing whose name escapes me, and transfer a bunch of stuff out of my purse and into my panniers. Then I had to find my colder-weather cycling gear, pack my work clothes, and generally do stuff that I had taken for granted last year because it had become habit.

I'm pretty sure that now that I have all my ducks in a row it'll go faster. For the moment, though, I kind of felt like I was flailing around like a headless chicken.

Negotiating packing my lunch in all this was an added complication as well. Still, I prevailed, and here I am at work, none the worse for wear.

[identity profile] mousme.livejournal.com 2009-03-17 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. I specifically took out my bike today in order to mock your pain. :P

*pats*

Can it be fixed?

[identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com 2009-03-17 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I dreamed about my bike last night. And then in my dream I remembered it was broken, and suddenly had no breaks :x

I am sure it can be, I just don't know when it is likely to happen at this point.

[identity profile] mousme.livejournal.com 2009-03-17 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Suckage. Well, it's not even spring yet: you have plenty of time.