Bike From Work Day
May. 18th, 2009 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdeb"Bike From Work Day" is not an official event. But I did end up just taking the bus on Friday because at quarter to 5, I noticed I had that butt bruise people get from bike seats.
So I rode my bike home today instead. I was panting continuously throughout the first half of the ride, even going so far as to sit through an entire light cycle at one point because there was construction ahead and I wanted to merge with the traffic, but I was too dead to go at any kind of reasonable speed.
Clearly my so-called jogging is nothing at all because I never pant like that when I jog these days. True, I deliberately have been jogging slowly so I could last for 20+ minutes, but I can do that now (and have recovered from being sick enough to be able to do that again), so it's time to start speeding things up, at least for part of the run.
My ride felt quite safe, but I felt quite exhausted when I got home after, again, 30 minutes of riding. I had no trouble changing gears (just like I never have before last Friday). On the other hand, I may have strained something in my right forearm. (I know. Weird.)
There's also weird emotional stuff. I normally look forward to my commute (even though I may not be enjoying every moment while I'm actually experiencing the commute) because I always have a book to read. But with bicycling, that wasn't the case. Instead of, "Woo hoo! The work day is done and I get to read!" I was thinking, "Well, I may as well get this over with already."
I am not going to become a bicycle commuter anytime soon, if ever. So sad. Ah, well, not everything can be a victory.
I'm glad I finally tried, though, and I may try again when I am in better shape and/or when the good buses aren't running.
In other mildly sad news, I couldn't pay my gas bill online over the weekend because they were re-vamping their website. And now they're charging $1.50 to pay online, so I'm back to mailing in my payments.
Video of the Day - How to Make Your Own Laundry Detergent - Do you like goo? Do you like slop? Then this may be more fun than you expect.
Is this my favorite video in the world? No. I'm not even going to try to make my own laundry detergent after watching this. But a) it's the kind of video where actually seeing things helps you learn it and b) I love the silly text pop-ups throughout the video (even though some were not up long enough for me to read all the way through). This helps keep things interesting.
So I rode my bike home today instead. I was panting continuously throughout the first half of the ride, even going so far as to sit through an entire light cycle at one point because there was construction ahead and I wanted to merge with the traffic, but I was too dead to go at any kind of reasonable speed.
Clearly my so-called jogging is nothing at all because I never pant like that when I jog these days. True, I deliberately have been jogging slowly so I could last for 20+ minutes, but I can do that now (and have recovered from being sick enough to be able to do that again), so it's time to start speeding things up, at least for part of the run.
My ride felt quite safe, but I felt quite exhausted when I got home after, again, 30 minutes of riding. I had no trouble changing gears (just like I never have before last Friday). On the other hand, I may have strained something in my right forearm. (I know. Weird.)
There's also weird emotional stuff. I normally look forward to my commute (even though I may not be enjoying every moment while I'm actually experiencing the commute) because I always have a book to read. But with bicycling, that wasn't the case. Instead of, "Woo hoo! The work day is done and I get to read!" I was thinking, "Well, I may as well get this over with already."
I am not going to become a bicycle commuter anytime soon, if ever. So sad. Ah, well, not everything can be a victory.
I'm glad I finally tried, though, and I may try again when I am in better shape and/or when the good buses aren't running.
In other mildly sad news, I couldn't pay my gas bill online over the weekend because they were re-vamping their website. And now they're charging $1.50 to pay online, so I'm back to mailing in my payments.
Video of the Day - How to Make Your Own Laundry Detergent - Do you like goo? Do you like slop? Then this may be more fun than you expect.
Is this my favorite video in the world? No. I'm not even going to try to make my own laundry detergent after watching this. But a) it's the kind of video where actually seeing things helps you learn it and b) I love the silly text pop-ups throughout the video (even though some were not up long enough for me to read all the way through). This helps keep things interesting.