justification

so i'm not always one to jump in and try new sports. i'm kind of tentative. i learned to ski when i was 9, so i have that skill and am a pretty good skiier, but i've never bothered expanding my field to snowboarding or anything new that might be, well, hard. it took me a while to get seriously into running, (not that i'm really "serious" now) and almost 9 months to run my first official 5k. if i'd pushed myself i could have done it in a few months, but i don't always like to push myself. i'm a bit of a dabbler.

but i do love to spend me some money. so i did something kind of uncharacteristic, and yet somehow totally me. i bought myself a really expensive bike.

there's that expression 'it's just like riding a bike.' i think it's a bad analogy. getting back on a bike after 10 years is not 'just like riding a bike.' maybe if i had a cute granny bike, but i've gotten myself a speed bike with 18 speeds and handlebars shaped like a ram's horns. i falter at stop signs, and have to think very hard before changing gears. i didn't realise there was a difference between the front and back brakes. also the bike seems very high to me - i'm on my tiptoes. i lean over the handlebars in regular racing stance, but move at a pace that's rather similar to an old lady's (an old lady with a walker and three bags of groceries).

but all in all it's good fun and i've been loving riding around the university, on the calm untrafficked streets among the glass buildings and the libraries.