bike legs
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They’re coming.
Today was the first day that I didn’t downshift climbing the hill up to the parking lot at work. So… hooray for me.
It’s slow going building strength for bicycling when I ride 1.7 miles four times a day, 4 days a week, not counting side trips to get groceries and whatnot. Plus my route (by design) is relatively flat. Yeah, I could push harder, pedal faster, stay in a higher gear, and find some much bigger hills if I wanted to, but as I look at the local weather right now it’s 91°F with 41% humidity, which means I’m a soggy mess when I get off the bike at work after lunch break. I can’t imagine what I’d look like if I’d done a hard workout to get here. And it’s not even August yet – we have yet to see a 100° day here, but it’ll come, and I won’t like it.
