Courage To Sweat

Bike - 2
Jen - 0

If you caught last week’s biking saga where I realized I managed to strap my water bottle holder overtop my brake cable causing my back brakes to basically always be on, ensuring I got in some unwanted resistance training, that resulted in some multi-day foot pain drama — then here’s my new saga…

Got some good cycling shoes courtesy of one of my clients 👍🏼

Got the back brakes fixed and water bottle holder in the correct positioning 👍🏼

Put on these pedal straps courtesy of Amazon 👍🏼

So it sounds like all is back in order, but ALAS, no.

❌ Turns out my front brakes are actually too tight (not my fault, but I guess we can’t 💯 rule that out yet until the Mr. investigates)

❌ Those pedal straps? Well, they’re very secure and so secure that I pulled back into my driveway ready to hop off as I automatically, naturally do but my foot was stuck.

I fell. My leg and arm are scraped up but very minorly. My pride is hurt worse. At the moment I fell, my core muscles decided to do that thing where they pull tight and cramp, so there my 40-something self was laid out in the driveway, feet stuck on a bike, leaning backwards like I’m in an awkward photo shoot trying to calm my core down. *I don’t think Tyra or Janice would have liked that photo.*

At this rate, what should my hashtag be for this series? JenSucksAtBiking ? BikeDefeatsJen CyclingFailureAtForty WTFJen

Amongst all the success stories on social media, and the pictures of folks making you unnecessarily feel bad about yourself - let my cycling journey here give you a little reprieve that in reality, we’re all actually out here on some sort of struggle bus.