On Friday I bought a really nice new bike from K-mart. Nothing fancy, just something to get me to work. I have felt that I needed to work out more and that I needed to save money. Thus a bike. Today is the first day that I rode it to work (it was very rainy the last two days and I don't like biking in the rain). Besides getting a little lost around the art museum (where Spring Garden does a very complicated dance with eight thousand other roads). I was able to make it to work earlier than I usually do. It took about 20mins, with the detour, and I left a little early because I was nervous about being late.
A couple things about biking in Philadelphia. (1) I am so glad the there are bike lanes, drivers here are really crazy. (2)I like my bike. (3) It felt a lot longer than it actually was. (4)My legs were very sour this morning, and (5) I will need to make sure to eat a better breakfast from now on, I was light headed by the time I got to work this morning. I'm sure that in time I will be very comfortable navigating the streets on my bike, but I will say with all the cars rushing by, I definably feel very alert to everything happening.
There are a couple of things that I need to get for my bike, a bell and some kind of basket or bag for carrying groceries. The only down side to all of this is that I have to carry that bike up and down two flights of steps every day, gross.
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