So today I decided to try a different exercise. I love to bike, but since I have moved away from my cute little college-bike-friendly-town, I've been a little put off of the whole idea of sucking in car fumes and being given the "bird" by passerby cars. Today I found a few things wrong with riding a bike in a town like mine:
1.) Road kill. I saw more dead animals than I ever wanted to see.
2.) The magical dissappearing sidewalk. One second- sidewalk! The next-no sidewalk!
3.) The heavy flow of traffic that finds it absolutely necessary to swerve anxiously into the next lane for fear of my bicycling skills. Like, come on, pro here ya'll.
4.) Various bugs flying in out or aroung my mouth and or forehead.
Although, I still love my bicycle. My town is NOT bicycle friendly. No sidewalks. No bike lanes. Dead animals sprayed throughout the road. I WANT MY CUTE BICYCLE-FRIENDLY-COLLEGE-TOWN back!!
Oh, and considering I was the only person biking throughout the entire town (minus one old man in a big house-big mortgage neighborhood far far from my one bedroom eighteen attendents neighborhood where you wonder why that family has so many cars and realize moments later its because theres that many people living there) it was no surprise to me when the "cat calls" by old construction workers followed in my BIKE DUST!
All I can say is I need a plan.
I must make the bike thing work for me as for the treadmill is getting (YAWN) old.
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bike to work!
i live in vancouver, 2nd biggest city in canada (not that means much)...i wish i owned a bike!
mind you, my city is super outdoorsy.
and roadkill is freaky shit. there was a dead raven in the alley behind my apartment the other day...intestines spilling out of his stomach.
LOVELY.
How far is your work? Mine is like 15 miles from my house lol!
Also- I saw a dead carp. You know the ginormous crap eating scary looking fish thing? In the middle of the road. In the middle of my town. Like, someone thought it would be a great idea to bring a carp into town and see how long it'd last on a busy street? Hm..
ROFL. a carp?! that's...incredible.
the dead bird wouldn't have been so weird if it wasn't for the perfectly in tact intestines splayed out for my viewing pleasure.
oh, and my work is like, 1-2 miles :) i walk to and from every single day.
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