Warming Things Up
With Ice on your mind one can forget or be concerned about the warming temperatures. A couple days ago I got out on my Mountain Bike for the first time this season. Deanne and Jason and I got out to Nose Hill park. The first hill was a lung burning re-introduction to Mt Biking.
My last workout with Nathan was an anoerobic workout. He stated that my aerobic capacity was great, but that anoerobically I wasn't good at making the muscles move under a lack of oxygen. Uh..... Ya I could have told Nathan that! However his workout on the inclined treadmill was a good vomit-inducing start!
Nose hill is so close I decided that I would get out there twice a week to tackle the hills and work on my anaroebic capapicity.
Today I decided to get back out on the bike for the second time and get on some hills. I am wondering what I should bring and what would happen if I get a flat on my bike since I have no idea how to fix it yada, yada, yada.
As I start out it looks like it could rain, then I realize its sort of hailing... and soon it's snowing. And Murphy's Law decided to swoop down on me and I got the dreaded "chain suck" on my bike. Just in time for it to start blizzarding. 2 guys stopped to help me out and they ended up taking the chain off for me and putting it back on - in a snow storm. They were at least at the end of their ride and at their vehicles. I quickly determined I wanted no part of Nose Hill today and just wanted to get back home.
Well, I like to think that I have a fairly good pain threshold from experiencing the screaming barfies countless times while ice climbing. But I was amazed at the pain factories called fingers as I was cycling home. FUCK ME my hands hurt. I finally dragged my sorry ass into my house, dripping wet, hurtings like the bejesus and wondering what mountain biking had in store for me this season.
Shortly after I got into warm clothes and was finally unthawing, the skies cleared and the sun was shining. Ya, thanks alot mother nature.
However whining aside, I am now officially excited about summer. Excited to improve as a mountain biker and to see what the spring/summer brings me.
My last workout with Nathan was an anoerobic workout. He stated that my aerobic capacity was great, but that anoerobically I wasn't good at making the muscles move under a lack of oxygen. Uh..... Ya I could have told Nathan that! However his workout on the inclined treadmill was a good vomit-inducing start!
Nose hill is so close I decided that I would get out there twice a week to tackle the hills and work on my anaroebic capapicity.
Today I decided to get back out on the bike for the second time and get on some hills. I am wondering what I should bring and what would happen if I get a flat on my bike since I have no idea how to fix it yada, yada, yada.
As I start out it looks like it could rain, then I realize its sort of hailing... and soon it's snowing. And Murphy's Law decided to swoop down on me and I got the dreaded "chain suck" on my bike. Just in time for it to start blizzarding. 2 guys stopped to help me out and they ended up taking the chain off for me and putting it back on - in a snow storm. They were at least at the end of their ride and at their vehicles. I quickly determined I wanted no part of Nose Hill today and just wanted to get back home.
Well, I like to think that I have a fairly good pain threshold from experiencing the screaming barfies countless times while ice climbing. But I was amazed at the pain factories called fingers as I was cycling home. FUCK ME my hands hurt. I finally dragged my sorry ass into my house, dripping wet, hurtings like the bejesus and wondering what mountain biking had in store for me this season.
Shortly after I got into warm clothes and was finally unthawing, the skies cleared and the sun was shining. Ya, thanks alot mother nature.
However whining aside, I am now officially excited about summer. Excited to improve as a mountain biker and to see what the spring/summer brings me.
posted by Lise B at Saturday, April 15, 2006
1 Comments:
ha ha ha ha, I totally remember biking in freezing weather! I would have to say that I dont miss it or my fingers being in a permant curl thanks to the handlebars! I take rollarblading any day! Sounds like your having fun though. Take it easy.
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