I'm going to start with last Thursday. It rained pretty much all last week, some minor flooding, bla bla bla, the midwest. So on Thursday, It looked like it had stopped raining so I grabbed my stuff and popped onto my bike. I was wrong, it was still raining, not pouring, but definitely heavier than a sprinkle. That wasn't even the worst part. Drivers of cars seemed to be in their own world, like they didn't have a roof and were just trying to get inside. So as soon as I could I got my butt off of the roads and onto a paved trail. Oh goodness, there were geese all over the place. So there was this one rather huge goose in front of me and I of course tried to be polite and say, "hey goose, here I come." MISTAKE! It totally chased me. I don't know if you've ever been chased by a goose, but it's incredibly frightening. They honk honk honk, stick their nasty little tongues out and flap their wings out at you, and do it all with a big poofy chest. I of course screamed my head off and went flying off of the trail (it's a good thing I still am only using a mountain bike). I thought for sure it was going to take flight and knock me off of my bike. I didn't dare ask another goose to let me through on the trail after that, I instead drove through a lot of muddy grass.
I recently watched a video that told me how to pedal properly. It increased my speed by about 1 mph and made me less nervous about a real bike. It's really funny how everything I've been doing, swimming, running and biking, I've been doing wrong all these years.
I wish we lived some where flatter. These hills are really annoying. I'm trying to focus on just going at a steady pace, but that's really hard when there are such steep hills around every corner.
That's really all I have that's even remotely interesting to talk about right now. I've mostly been focusing on bicycling lately since the Tour de Cure is coming up (my family rules and through just them I've raised just over the minimum). I miss swimming. My future at Hallmark is looking a bit brighter, but I still won't know much for a couple of weeks.
