Wednesday, August 06, 2008

The Best Bike Ride Of My Life


Intended time: 2 hours 15 minutes
Intended distance: 30ish miles

Actual time: 3 hours 15 minutes
Actual distance: 48 miles

I got lost.
I got some bad directions.
I got loster.
The sky turned dark as a bruise.
I got blown around by crazy wind.
I got rained on.
I wiped out out on some train tracks.
I got hailed on and utterly drenched.
I nearly got hit by several cars.
People looked at me from their porches like I was a crazy man, pedaling up their street through gales of hail and rain.

It was totally life affirming.

2 comments:

Golightly (in cashmere!) said...

Yes, sounds like a truly grand time (really)

Margaret Shugart said...

that absolutely inspired me to get out there more