Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Timeline of a Bike Ride

4:45 I know, instead of going to the gym, I'll go for a bike ride
5:00 Sitting on the couch checking twitter
5:10 Clean dust of bike helmet
5:11 Locate appropriate footwear (well, sports sandals, not really appropriate footwear)
5:12 Wrangle bike from the basement to the backyard
5:14 Pump up front tire
5:15 Fill water bottle; place on bike
5:15 Put on bike helmet; notice it is far too tight
5:16 Deduce helmet problem is caused by ponytail; change to low ponytail
5:17 Notice front tire is flat. Crap.
5:17 Take off bike helmet, grab keys
5:25 Purchase new tire tube
5:26 Stupid traffic
5:38 Take of front tire; pull out old tube
5:38 Read size of old tire tube; note it is 2 inches bigger than the newly-purchased tire
5:43 Back at Canadian Tire
5:45 Correct size tire located; waiting in line at customer service
5:55 Tire successfully exchanged
5:58 Traffic successfully avoided
6:05 Tube replaced
6:05 Notice part of mechanism that attaches the tire to the bike is missing in the lawn
6:06 Found! Attach tire to bike
6:07 Put on bike helmet
6:07 Get on bike
6:12 Adjust seat
6:15 Hmm, the seat is slipping
6:15 Ignore moving seat
6:23 Why is everything uphill?
6:40 Home at last
6:41 How does this bike fit into the shed again?
6:42 Hey, I didn't have any water! *inadvertantly pulls the entire lid off and spills it*

6 comments:

  1. Too funny!! Kind of reminds me of the Scaredy Squirrel books :) KG

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  2. It looks like your exercise today took far longer than it would if you'd just gone to the gym, but now you're ready next time you want to ride the bike...

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  3. Ha! Serves you right for trying to get healthy and everything. :) The universe apparently does not support biking.

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  4. Note to yourself, get bike tuned-up next year, thus saving time and aggravation.

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  5. All that in only two hours? I would have given up at "pump up front tire," and never ever would have gotten to "purchase new tire tube" let alone all the rest.
    Awesome!

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  6. It's amazing how motivated I can be when I don't want to give in and go to the gym ....

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