Pedal Strike

A friend asked me a few days ago what exactly would prevent my biking to school – snow? sleet? driving rain?

Embarrassed at admitting the truth, I just shrugged.

Ever since, my weather arch-nemesis – strong, gusty wind – has been making a recurring appearance.

Yesterday morning I felt like I was on a wind resistance trainer, except that there were cars passing by, I was outside, and I had the added pleasure of trying not to sprain my neck while the wind tried to rip my helmet off my head. Oh yeah, and it involved some gasping-fish-out-of-water faces whenever the wind got so bad that I couldn’t breathe.

My thighs, by the time I limped my way to school, felt like someone had put them in a vice and then injected them with battery acid. The worst part was knowing that on the way home, the wind will probably have reversed direction.

But then something unbelievable happened. Something I’ve sort of fantasized about, but then would immediately try to forget because I figure it’ll never happen. But it did. I got featured on trackosaurus rex!!!

My eyes almost popped out of my face when I saw the post. My mind exploded when hit counts on this blog exceeded 400. 600+ and I almost swooned in excitement.

And then Garrett Chow of MASH SF fame accepted my friend request on Facebook.

Headwind be damned, I can now officially die a happy girl [okay, pending building up that Dolan and riding it around first].

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