Fourth Ride

I was in meetings all day at work and was delighted to get home 15 minutes early. Stretched out on the couch with Runkster to have dinner and then went for a 30 minute ride before I went to the gym for an hour.

One thing I've noticed is that the first 20 minutes of a ride I'm a total klutz and completely lack confidence. I'm all over the place. Then as soon as I'm off the road for a couple of minutes and away from shared use lanes and inclines I'm a-okay. I rode to the Johnson Street bridge and back to the gym, about 3k I guess?

It felt good. My butt is no longer sore. Well a teensy bit but I'm not in agony or even discomfort. But now my shoulders and wrists ache a bit as I ride. And while I can hold my arm up to signal a left turn easily, holding up my arm for a right turn is much, much harder. When no one is around I practice with both. But I haven't seen a difference yet.

I'd like to end with something positive, so how about this: I can already see a huge improvement with my handling of my bike and with my "take off" and I can see myself steadily getting strong enough to ride to work.