No shame in my game
Lately I have been walking up a lot of hills with my bike. You see, my job is 60% meetings- meetings all over town. I don’t have the option of getting to work early, changing clothes and freshening up. The best I can hope for is to find a restroom wherever my meeting is for a quick touch up. I love that my job has me out from under a desk, but it does have certain challenges.
If I am running from one meeting to another and want to arrive fresh and clean, I walk up any steep hills that may be on the route. I used to ride up them to be a badass, now I care less about that and more about having cute hair and not overheating! After one too many meetings sweaty and out of breath, I am taking the easy way out. During the winter it actually seems worse, since I am dressed perfectly for regular riding but much too warm for the hills.
After my last meeting of the day, I always ride up the massive hill by my house, glad not to have to worry about arriving home sweaty!
Anyone else do this?
Yes, me too. Ride for your destination and never forget to enjoy the journey.
I don’t have any hills to speak of around here…but yes, I do take it VERY easy on my way to work so I show up presentable (and dry)….but I time-trial my ass off on the way home — it doesn’t matter what I look like when I get to my house!
Take it easy up them thar hills, do your meetings and have fun on the way home.
you can get gears that are no faster than walking..
wle
Sure, Chinese Low Gear, we used to call it. No problem, use when necessary. Nowdays I prefer the term my freind Kent turned me on to: “24 Inch Gear”. So called because twentyfour inches is two feet.
Sounds like good common sense to me.