We show up at 5:30am in tacky bright spandex tights and jerseys.
The plan: ride around in circles on a road that requires “Watch out for cyclists!” signs. “Give cyclists <– 3ft –>” These signs are important because a cyclist has been killed on this road before, and the killer was merely given a traffic ticket. You can still see the grooves in the pavement of the catastrophic moment in the shoulder. The grooves are filled with white chalk so us cyclists don’t get our tires stuck in them.
So we ride in circles, in our Dorothy tap shoes, delicately balanced on our expensive bikes.
I ride on tired legs that I used up on my hopping exercise last night. I am approaching 20 miles completed, when I see Lisa, Kim, Melvin and Kerri on the other side of the road in bright red, blue, cornflower blue and orange. “HEY, GUYS!” I quickly cross the road to catch up with them and do another loop.
Calories burned: 500
Tags: cycling
June 4, 2009 at 2:44 pm |
good thing you guys ride in the morning or that calories burned would by sky high :-\
June 5, 2009 at 2:58 am |
Damn girl. I had no idea you were such a super duper exerciser. Are you guys going to do this again? Every last Friday in Chicago they have something called Critical Mass, all the bike riders start at the same location. (100′s) They ride to an undisclosed location through the city. Kinda cool.