Beernik
Well-Known Member
Any cycling fans out there?
Unfortunately, lately I've been mostly biking indoors. Between work and taking care of my daughter, most of the time I have for exercising is on my lunch break. So I go to the gym in my building, punch in a hill climbing route and bike 8 to 10 miles in 45 minutes.
Today I introduced my daughter to road biking. She's 7. The completed the construction on a new 15 mile highway near my place and build a running / biking trail along the side of it. I loaded up our bikes and drove down to the trail.
She was nervous and very dramatic about being nervous at the start. The start of the trail ran between two fences and it went downhill and into the wind. After a quarter mile of her dragging her feet and trying to get her pedals just perfect to begin peddling, I told her if this is what she was going to do the whole time, I wasn't going to bring her back again.
So she finally started peddling. After another quarter mile, she noticed how far away the car was and wanted to bike back. So we headed back.
She liked going uphill with the wind a lot better. We got back to the car and she said, "Can we do it again?"
I said, " Sure."
We ended up doing half-mile to full mile laps along the trail for a total of 6 miles over 90 minutes.
It was awesome. I'm taking her back tomorrow.
Unfortunately, lately I've been mostly biking indoors. Between work and taking care of my daughter, most of the time I have for exercising is on my lunch break. So I go to the gym in my building, punch in a hill climbing route and bike 8 to 10 miles in 45 minutes.
Today I introduced my daughter to road biking. She's 7. The completed the construction on a new 15 mile highway near my place and build a running / biking trail along the side of it. I loaded up our bikes and drove down to the trail.
She was nervous and very dramatic about being nervous at the start. The start of the trail ran between two fences and it went downhill and into the wind. After a quarter mile of her dragging her feet and trying to get her pedals just perfect to begin peddling, I told her if this is what she was going to do the whole time, I wasn't going to bring her back again.
So she finally started peddling. After another quarter mile, she noticed how far away the car was and wanted to bike back. So we headed back.
She liked going uphill with the wind a lot better. We got back to the car and she said, "Can we do it again?"
I said, " Sure."
We ended up doing half-mile to full mile laps along the trail for a total of 6 miles over 90 minutes.
It was awesome. I'm taking her back tomorrow.