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bicycles2011-10-16 01:40 pm
untonuggan) wrote in bicycles2011-10-16 01:40 pm
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I guess you really don't forget how to ride a bicycle
I learned how to ride a bike this year (in my mid-20s), and have been uber-excited about it. Then I had some health problems this summer (namely, unexplained dizziness while doing cardio) that made riding really difficult. I did not want to get a dizzy spell while on my bike.
Things have been gradually improving, but I was hesitant to ride my bike. I've heard lots of stories about people "never forgetting how to ride," but I had just learned. All of the fear I'd carried about bicycling for years started to creep back in. What if I fell? I didn't want another injury.
Today is beautiful, and I finally decided, "Frell it, if I fall then I fall."
I was able to start correctly (i.e. not sitting on the saddle while starting) on the first try, and it was even better than when I last rode. Shifting gears, making fiddly turns, stopping, all of it.
Now I just have to squeeze in as much riding as I can before the weather turns foul.
(crossposted to my own journal)
Things have been gradually improving, but I was hesitant to ride my bike. I've heard lots of stories about people "never forgetting how to ride," but I had just learned. All of the fear I'd carried about bicycling for years started to creep back in. What if I fell? I didn't want another injury.
Today is beautiful, and I finally decided, "Frell it, if I fall then I fall."
I was able to start correctly (i.e. not sitting on the saddle while starting) on the first try, and it was even better than when I last rode. Shifting gears, making fiddly turns, stopping, all of it.
Now I just have to squeeze in as much riding as I can before the weather turns foul.
(crossposted to my own journal)