Leaky Waterbottles

I wish I could manually write or draw my blogs.
But then you guys wouldn't be able to read them.

Let me ignore the fact that I haven't updated in 3 weeks and tell you about some beast mode that went on today.

So you know how like a year and a half ago I was all into
BIKING TO WORK!
YEAH!
I'M SO B-A
IT'S ALL MY COWORKERS EVER ASK/YELL AT ME ABOUT

And then I got a new, better job that's even closer to my house and has bike racks and I never have biked to work?

Yeah, I've been living the cushy life.
Sitting in traffic and all.
But I do HIIT jumprope sometimes, so there.

Anyway. So I got all #inspired to go on a bike ride this afternoon.

I was only going to go 8 miles, which is a little more than my actual commute would be.
Then I started going, and I had some fierce headwinds, and then I was like nah, brah, I'm only going to go 6. Go down to '17 (3-ish miles from my house) and then turn around and go back.

But when I got to '17, I was like, "I can keep going to Ottawa farms. Let's go to Ottawa farms."

And then I got to Ottawa farms, and I was like, "Holy crap! I feel great! Let's see where this road goes. I hope it goes to 80 so that I can just loop around to my house."

It sure did.

Pro tip: eat deli meat and grapes right before you ride.

Total mileage ended up being 9.7 miles!!! It's not the mileage I accomplished that's amazing.

It's really these other things:

1. I have not biked in months and was able to go that far and still feel great.

2. It took me 50 minutes, and my 10 mile commute used to take me an hour at least. Granted, this was all right turns, but I was still in traffic, bae.

3. I AM NOT EVEN SORE. Like, not even in the crotch. What is happening. This is great. I think I like exercising.

4. I got to see some baby geese. They weren't baby chicks, but they hadn't gotten their black feathers yet either. They were in the ugly-duckling stage and it was sooooooooo cuuuuuuuuuuuuute.

5. I found a park I didn't know about in Bloomingdale.

6. When I got to 80, it brought back all the early-morning memories I had of commuting by bike back in the day. Just for fun, I rode really fast on the sidewalks and was crushing it.

It was awesome. It was just a ride like this that gives me the confidence that I could really bike to work with no problem. Given my speed today, I think it would only add 20 minutes to my commute.

Which is great, because I've been waking up naturally at 6:30 with the sun all up in my eyes and stuff.

So we'll see what happens.
And yes, I'll tell you about it.

Ride it like you stole it,
TWS