4-5-2008

My first "real" ride. I need to nickname my bike... I'll have to enlist the husband on this one.

So 9:00am this morning I arrived at my coworkers house. Like I've said before this guy is the guru of triathlons and has done at least 50+. Florida is 99%, well the central florida area is probably 99% flat in my opinion. BUT the neighborhood where I was had has some small hills, so for me to use my Shimano clip in shoes and to learn about gears and which to be in for hills, he though it would be a good idea to ride with him on his Tandem bike. Yes, a tandem bike, aka bicycle built for 2, but this is like a triathlon bicycle built for 2. IT was weird at first being on a bike behind my cowoker who's 30+ years older than me, looking at his butt, but after a few minutes you kinda forget. Though when we would see people and have people drive by I would LOVE to know what they were thinking.

So after I want to say riding 2 miles on the tandem all around the neighborhood we came back to his house and got our individual bikes to go to the local state park and ride 6 miles.

I really had a good time and learned a lot about my bike today. I understood before how to shift up and down but now riding and having to encounter a few hills I know which gear to be in to better use my energy.

I have to say bike riding is more work than I thought - my legs were definately tired after my 8+ mile bike ride this morning and right now at this moment are somewhat sore. But its a good sore, its a I did something to better my health sore. Lets hope I have the same opinion tomorrow. haha