Location Taken: Savage, Maryland
Time Taken: April 2010
I got out my bike for the first time in months today. I last went biking back in October, and the combination of weather and travel has been discouraging me from picking it up again since then.
But the weather is warming, and most importantly the days are lengthening. Oh, and my sleep schedule has shifted to diurnal again. It’s tough to go biking when you just aren’t active during the daylight hours.
Especially if you’ve got a bike like mine that has an odd shape that doesn’t take to the standard bike lights well. I might need to get those fancy in-wheel lights or something if I ever want to do night biking.
I went for a short ride today. I am, not surprisingly, rather out of shape. If nothing else, I have gone four months without biking!
So I just went down the street to the main road, up the hill on the other side of that road (that’s the hill in the photo), turned right and continued up the hill some more, then another right and I got to the downhill part of the road. I finished the block and headed home.
I know it sounds really short, but I was worn out at the end. Largely because of that hill. I went up it at a rather fast pace, since there was some traffic that I didn’t want to delay. So it was quite intense for a warm-up workout, and got my heart racing nicely.
I shall have to go out more frequently now that the conditions are good for it.
