Bad day for biking
Posted in Family, Outings by: Alisa
This morning was a comedy of errors. First I left the house without my helmet and when I rode past the group of painters that are always standing around during my runs or bikes one of them said, “What, no helmet?” Crap, I had left my helmet at home. Well I was too embarrassed to turn around so I made the big loop back to my house the whole time terrified that I was going to get hit by a car and get brain damage.
So I make it back home and get my helmet on. Then I was too embarrassed to ride past the painters again with my helmet, so I went the opposite direction of my normal ride. Instead of all right turns it was all left turns which meant crossing the street with two lights for each turn. I get the first light at the end of my street and take my right foot out of the holster to put it on the curb. I decided to kind of angle myself so I could easily take off to the left when the light changed and boom. On the ground. I totally fell over on my bike. Luckily there was no one at the intersection, which is a rarity, so I got up and picked my bike up and got back on and waited for the light.
When I got to the next light and it turned green I started to go but swerved a little bit as I got my balance. Apparently I scared the guy in the car next to me because he yelled something at me. I’m just not that good at riding bikes. “I’m learning,” I wanted to shout back at him but didn’t.
The thing that made it all worth while though is when I got home and realized I’d been riding around with blood dripping down my leg. How cool is that!!? It was a sissy amount of blood, no gushing, but still, it was blood. It made me feel proud of myself that even though it was kind of a crappy ride I still did it, blood and all.
The pictures are of my bike. When you get into the higher end racing bikes you don’t get fun detailed seats or swirly frames. I’m glad I got an entry level bike if only for the pretty factor. And the fact that I’m going to fall down a lot.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
When I lived in Sac-town I only had a bike to “drive” and I did dumb things all the time. Once I hit a curb and fell head and feet over handlebars into a group of homeless people; talk about completely embarrassed! I could barely walk, but I managed to ride far enough away that they couldn’t see me and I could start crying. I managed to hobble my way to our schools urgent care facility (which thankfully I wasn’t that far from). Anyway, it happens to everyone- so don’t feel too bad!