I usually beat the trails...
But last night they beat me.
So the second day wearing my clipless shoes was not such a success. I ventured on a trail that I was not familiar with, which is deadly when wearing clipless shoes for only the second time. I fell a handful of times and had words escape my mouth that shouldn't have. I even prayed before I started that I would not slip a bad word, but in the midst of feeling like I was falling to my death, hence they came. The last fall was the very worst. I was trying to ride over a mogul that was too steep for me and instead fell backwards crashing my head to the ground and bike on top of me because I could not get the clipless shoes out of the pedals. Needless to say I ended my ride after this. I was bruised and beaten enough.
We only got 4.5 miles in and I was bummed. I had fully expected to get a good, hard ride in and we didn't. Shawn was so sweet though, he stayed with me the entire ride. I kept telling him to go on ahead but he wouldn't. Probably because my falls were so bad, he thought I was going to kill myself. ha!
Tonight Shawn said we should take it easy and just go for a road bike ride! I was happy to agree. I am running out of room on my legs for cuts and bruises.
So the second day wearing my clipless shoes was not such a success. I ventured on a trail that I was not familiar with, which is deadly when wearing clipless shoes for only the second time. I fell a handful of times and had words escape my mouth that shouldn't have. I even prayed before I started that I would not slip a bad word, but in the midst of feeling like I was falling to my death, hence they came. The last fall was the very worst. I was trying to ride over a mogul that was too steep for me and instead fell backwards crashing my head to the ground and bike on top of me because I could not get the clipless shoes out of the pedals. Needless to say I ended my ride after this. I was bruised and beaten enough.
We only got 4.5 miles in and I was bummed. I had fully expected to get a good, hard ride in and we didn't. Shawn was so sweet though, he stayed with me the entire ride. I kept telling him to go on ahead but he wouldn't. Probably because my falls were so bad, he thought I was going to kill myself. ha!
Tonight Shawn said we should take it easy and just go for a road bike ride! I was happy to agree. I am running out of room on my legs for cuts and bruises.
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