Sunburst!, originally uploaded by Nin(j)a.

I biked to work today. I am now only 3.5 miles bike ride from my office, so in August I bought a little brown Schwinn fixed up by Scottsdale PD for a very small sum of money, and last week I ordered the above awesome helmet. The weather turned to fall perfect this week, for a brief window, and I had no excuse to not try out the commute.
It was exhausting.
I feel like a doosh* riding a bike in general. I didn’t learn until I was 10, but from there until I was 17 or so, I loved it. Maple Grove has great bike paths, we would constantly go out in the summer and bike for miles. And I didn’t learn to drive until I was 19, so when I got to college, it was my sole transportation besides my super cool new friend with the Jeep. Later on in college, I found myself carless again, and turned back to the bike and bus for two years.
But that was a long time ago. And I now feel like a doosh* on a bike. I am slow and awkward and I don’t know my route well yet. and it felt like all kinds of people were passing me. They were, it didn’t feel like it, they were.
But I will try again perhaps this week. Perhaps next.
*sorry, mom, I remember you don’t like that word. that’s why I intentionally mispelled it

today’s commute

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