Back in the game
Yesterday I rode my bike for the first time in 3 1/2 years. After I moved in 2003, I had nowhere to store it, and when we came to Smalltown a year ago and rented a garage, I couldn't get it. My parents finally brought it to me during the winter, along with a bunch of other stuff they were storing all this time, and I'm sooooo happy!
So I hope to ride 5-6 days/week until my legs get back in shape. They were strongest when I did my internship, and rode like a maniac for 10 minutes 5 days/week because I was always late for work. So I figure even if I can only ride 20-30 minutes/day I should get good results.
Of course, I've made resolutions like this before, and didn't follow through. But I plan to ride instead of drive on errands I have to do anyway, and I've already started, and I'm feeling the incentives. <satisfied grin>
The bike is not, strictly speaking, a bike. Fibromyalgia makes it painful for me to ride a normal one, because the only part of my body that works as intended is my legs. I can't ride a recumbent bike because I can't relax and balance right. So I have a recumbent trike which I could never possibly have afforded, but which a very generous friend bought for me. A generic example:
Sweetie might make things difficult. She hasn't learned to ride the thrift-sale bike I bought her last summer, and I refuse to buy training wheels because I know she can do it if she really wants to. She only practices for 5 minutes at a time, and gets all freaked out that I'm gonna let her fall. (I figured out a way to help her in spite of my weakness.) I also refuse to buy a trailer unnecessarily, so she'll be staying home with Daddy, and she's not gonna like that whatsoever. So maybe that'll motivate her to learn how to ride.
So I hope to ride 5-6 days/week until my legs get back in shape. They were strongest when I did my internship, and rode like a maniac for 10 minutes 5 days/week because I was always late for work. So I figure even if I can only ride 20-30 minutes/day I should get good results.
Of course, I've made resolutions like this before, and didn't follow through. But I plan to ride instead of drive on errands I have to do anyway, and I've already started, and I'm feeling the incentives. <satisfied grin>
The bike is not, strictly speaking, a bike. Fibromyalgia makes it painful for me to ride a normal one, because the only part of my body that works as intended is my legs. I can't ride a recumbent bike because I can't relax and balance right. So I have a recumbent trike which I could never possibly have afforded, but which a very generous friend bought for me. A generic example:
Sweetie might make things difficult. She hasn't learned to ride the thrift-sale bike I bought her last summer, and I refuse to buy training wheels because I know she can do it if she really wants to. She only practices for 5 minutes at a time, and gets all freaked out that I'm gonna let her fall. (I figured out a way to help her in spite of my weakness.) I also refuse to buy a trailer unnecessarily, so she'll be staying home with Daddy, and she's not gonna like that whatsoever. So maybe that'll motivate her to learn how to ride.
posted by Kiwi the Geek at 8:51 PM
4 Comments:
I have full functionl use of my limbs (unless I fall asleep on my arm the wrong way) and I think that 'bike' looks like a blast to ride.
Why recumbents are the best:
1. You don't get saddle-sore.
2. You get to look at the scenery, not the pavement.
Why recumbent trikes are even better:
3. You don't get road rash. (rapid loss of skin)
Oh, and
4. No matter how slowly you pedal up the hill, you won't fall over.
I am glad you have the bike. As for sweetie you will solve that problem as you go along and as she matures. Looks much more comfortable than a broom. ==smiles==
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