lessons learned

Yesterday, day 2, I decided to venture through the neighborhood and into surrounding ones. It's weird how you pick up on little things when you're on a bike and the little highs that you can get from them. Like I learned that it's a really cool feeling when you get clocked on a radar detector when you're on a bike. I've also learned that texas heat sucks to ride a bike in. I go through so much water and have had to come home or to my car several times to fill up my bottle and then continue on.

Today right before I went for a ride, I watched Mulan with my sister. Then on the bike all I could think about was the song "we are men...... dark side of the moon.." but none of the other lyrics would come to mind. So I decided, that I should listen to a song I know before biking, so I can sing along with it instead of "la la lalaaaaaa...".

I also went to a maintenance class up at Performance Bikes tonight. I learned things like how to change my tire, chain, take my brake pads and wheels off, etc. It feels good to know how to get myself out of most every situation that I could wind up in.

I also learned how nice people can be when they seem someone in distress. During my second ride of the day, I ran out of water 3 miles away from my house and way down hill. I knew there was no way I could make it home without more water, so I asked some guys playing basketball in their driveway- and sure enough they filled up my bottle for me!! It was so refreshing that I ended up staying out an extra 10 miles.

So all in all, my bike odometer has officially reached 30 miles today. I hope to nearly double that by the weekend.