Day 1:
We took the bike out at night, Bear and
I – mainly so that there was less of a chance of other people watching our
complete and utter lack of grace.
It was hard.
Harder than I remember it being – just
riding around the block took us an hour, ridiculous amounts of sweat and a
great deal of panting.
Both Bear and I are out of shape, that’s
a given, but it was staggering to see just how out of shape we were….
Bear needed to relearn the parameters of
the bike, how to move with it, how not to cross in front of it….how to adjust
his pacing….
Thankfully he never forgot the
hard-learned lesson of staying on the right side of trees, posts and signs, or
things could have ended a great deal more painfully.
As for me…well, I need a great deal more
work. First there’s all my “winter
weight” (but we’re not going to talk about weight right now. There’s too much to get into and nowhere near
enough desire to air everything out) and then of course there’s the loss of my
bike legs, my form and my stamina. It’s
incredible how much can go out the window in 6 months.
In all honesty, I could have kept it
up. I could have gone down to the gym
and plopped myself down on one of the stationary bikes, but excuses are
plentiful and oh-so-convincing in the cold winter months…
But we did it.
We toured the block on two wheels and
four paws.
There were frequent pauses for breath
(and the occasional sniff and pee requirement), but we did it.
It doesn’t matter that we both collapsed in a
heap of exhausted panting the second we got home.
It doesn’t matter that it took a good 20
minutes before I was ready to get up and stretch out my legs properly.
What matters is that we did it – and so
long as the weather holds, we’ll KEEP doing it until it gets easier, and then
we’ll start branching out – adding distance and building up our stamina.
Maybe it won’t be enough to ride a full
25k by the 31st of May – but I’ll be damned if we give up before
we’ve even started.
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Bear's P4ws
