After almost two years of hinting, badgering, begging and encouraging me, the boys took me to get a bike for my birthday. A real bike. A Blue road bike. It's a RD1. When James first told me he thought I should get that particular model, I thought he said "already won." I thought it would rather cool to have a bike that already won a race. It took us 10-15 minutes to figure out that Keith and James were on one page and I was on a totally other page.
When we got to the Bicycle Doctor to pick out a bike, it quickly became clear that James with input from his dad were going to need to make all the decisions because I hadn't a clue.
What also became clear is that James expected me to do a trainer ride....tonight. Never mind that I didn't have shoes or pedals. We got the pedals and I was going to borrow his shoes. (Yes, I can now wear HIS shoes.) Long story short, that plan didn't work so I borrowed Christopher's old cages....so here I am doing a trainer ride.
James is a tough personal trainer. I think it was the end of the first 30 second sprint interval when I thought I was going to die. Then, around the third one when my foot started cramping that I wished I was. Dead, that is. Not really, but man, he was tough. He kept saying, "Mommy, you only have ten more minutes." Then it was eight minutes, then seven minutes. He had no idea that that sounded like an absolute eternity.
Finally, we were done. I'm sure I'm a better person for it. And maybe I won't hear anymore about a new bike for a while.
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So, dare I ask? When do you take that show on the road? Do you work up to it? Do you ride around during practice? How do you find time for this?
ReplyDeleteOk. I had more than one question.
Cool bike!
Groovy trainer!!
And a shout out to the Todd House photographer, catching those moments of frustration and intensity...
I will take it out as soon as my shoes come in. Bikes that don't come from Target don't come with pedals. You would think, then, that you just buy pedals, but no. You have to decide what kind of cleats you want and then the pedals have to match and then the shoes have to match that. The cleats are key because that impacts how quickly you can clip in and out of the pedal. Of course, unless you are going without that kind. By the way the ones with cleats are called "clipless" - which always confuses me because you are "clipping in"). That alternative is to have a cage into which you slide your regular shoe.
ReplyDeleteI will NOT ride around during practice.
Since when does time ever matter? I don't have time for photography, scrapbooking, cooking, etc.
To give credit where credit is due, hubby took all but the last photo of James. CBT took that one.
Maybe this should have all just been a post.
THIS can be your next post - just think, this bike puts you on the road toward this. And this just might be lure enought to get me on a bike. Maybe. Possibly. We'll see.
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That is too cool! You look great on the bike...a natural!
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