Now I only live like 1.5 miles from work, and I have in fact walked it but its quite a busy highway-like road.One of my coworkers suggested this alternative route which has a bike lane so I decided to try that.
Since its so close I was just dressed normally, I even had my boots on and my backback and everything.
Well I took the wrong road. After going 1000 miles an hour down this really steep hill I ended up riding on a pseudo highway for a bit, but I couldn't go back because it was too steep. So I was pedaling really hard up the other side of the hill. For some reason the scary song from Wizard of Oz comes to mind.... except I was pedaling with all my might.
At the top of the hill my chain came off. Again I wasn't properly dressed, and I didn't want to mess around with the grease so I just walked the last mile or so to work. Took me an hour. Luckily that part had a sidewalk.
Got to work and I was soaked. The backpack had quite a bit of stuff in it, so I have drench marks accordingly.
And the bike shop is closed because its a holiday.
And there is free parking because its a holiday.
Sweet.
In other news, happy Veterans Day.
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oh my gosh the wizzard of oz music is PERFECT. hahah so funny. Once when I was in rome, I decided to walk to school, which was three miles away but didn't give myself enough time and I ended up hauling ass ..never the less I also had big backpack sweat marks on my back, armpits, under my bra line and not to mention dripping down my face for a good 15 minutes after I made it to school... and then I had to go to class all wet. my seat was of course in the front.
you know what this reminds me of...when we were biking together in los alamos and i said, i know where we can go. and the place i had in mind was the truck route. seemed like it had a flat stretch in the car! wrong! we were going so fast i thought my tires were going to fly off. and i did not think i would get back up that hill unless i walked. did not make that mistake twice!
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