My bike and I

I got on my bike last night and Kaitlin and I biked just over halfway to the office I work at and back, approx 7-8 km's. It felt wonderful. It is my warm up/test to see if I am ready to starting biking to work everyday and leaving the golden gaz gussler at home. Kaitlin of course on her new bike would fly by me every few minutes yelling "Right, right, right" signalling that she is going to pass me on my right and I should stay left, just like in the movie Spanglish. It was funny at first, but then I got tired of it, only because she kept passing me. I tried to do it to her once, but I didn't quite get passed her. Damn it.

Anyways, there are three hills on that trail that have the potential to give me really sore legs. Two going and one coming back. The worst is the one coming back. I didn't even try that one, I got off at the bottom and walked up it. Kaitlin rode all the way up. Damn it. By the end of my biking to work stint last year I had only made it up that one once.

The first one on the going I made about half way, the second one I made it all the way. Both of these I was doing with no problem by the end of last summer, but couldn't do when I first started.

I did better than I expected, but not as well as I hoped. You see, I had been trying to keep myself more conditioned over this past winter, and I had been doing very well until about the middle of March, then I really slacked off. I guess it worked as well as I did.

Tonight I go again and I tomorrow I bike to work with my butt blister avoidance shorts.