So many flats!
I've had 3 flats this week!
2 on my road bike, 1 on my commuter.
It's good though, I'm getting pretty good at fixing them.
They used to annoy me a lot because of the inconvenience, but it's good that they've annoyingly happened to me enough times that I'm super familiar with how to fix them now.
My husband also taught me a nice trick for finding small punctures, when you can't feel the air escaping.
Put a tiny bit of soapy water on where you think it might be and the air escaping will blow a bubble! It took me a few goes to find this one!
Gear Up Girl
So last weekend, I completed Gear Up Girl.
It was a social ride run by Bicycle NSW from Homebush to Cronulla (with a Kurnell loop).
It was 60km in total and it took me 10km on either side to get to Redfern station.
It was pretty fun, I was lucky I was with a friend.
With these social rides, a lot of the challenge is navigating through the other riders.
I think because it was an accessible ride, the purpose was to get anyone doing it, so even people who don't cycle, on cruiser bikes, the first kms were quite frustrating.
There were also many bottlenecks around that area before we got to the Cooks River cycleway (which is quite narrow and there were a number of people out walking - poor people!).
I was glad I was on my road bike.
Despite the ride being easy (not very challenging), I was in quite a lot of leg muscle pain the next day.
I guess time on the bike is still time on the bike.
Glad I did 80km in one day as Bobbin Head will be that but much harder.
Panda Shot!
I recently found out that a selfie while you were cycling was called a Panda Shot after the person that made this type of photo popular. (Their username was "faster panda kill kill").
Anyway, it sounded pretty cool and I was thinking of it as something to aim for (despite struggling to take selfies with both feet on the ground).
Until I read this article today.
This
turned into this
A fractured back and a degloved hand.
She says:
"even though i am on the road to recovery and have been very lucky...i don't want you to have to be laying in bed with your loved one crying because you don't want to be like this anymore and you just want to be better so you can continue doing the things you love."Something to think about..
Sorry to end on such an awful note.
Here's some ice cream. :)
Amazing bike watching on Oxford St:
(Almost as good as people watching and dog watching. Actually as good).
And my bike when I got home. With my fluro pink ass saver. :)
This was my view for a bit. All I could do was sit there!
Then I got up, had a shower, went for an upper body massage and ate a bag of chips and gravy. Hehehehe.
Afterwards,
Massage man: If you go for a bike ride, I'd recommend getting your lower body massaged instead.
Me: Nope, too painful. Thanks anyway.
I seriously reckon I would karate chop anyone who went anywhere near my tight quads.
I should probably get my quads massaged one day, but they're so hard and tight the thought itself scares me..
