Puddles
Do I need to get the spray plaster out?
- Location
- Hamble, Southampton
As a newbie,
The tale is as follows, got rid of second car in July last yearas once eldest got a place in a local school, I didn't need to drive him the 10 miles there anymore, plus I am a SAHM and rarely used the car, so it was bye bye car.
My Dad who rides an electric bike suggested a bike with a child trailer as my then 6 year old was good on his bike & my just 2 year old could go in the trailer. - oh how I laughed & laughed (I don't do exercise ever nor had I been on a bike in over *cough cough* 20 ish years), I came home and said to hubby guess what Dad said about the car going, & told him, expecting him to laugh & laugh. He didn't he said give it a go, I said are you taking the pee?
So we got a 2nd hand bike (which was crap tbh) and a trailer, I would not let hubby buy brand new bike as I said to him look I will give it a go I might try it once and say sod this for a lark.
I tried it, I spent evenings pedaling the length of our road without the trailer, then with the trailer, then I did a trip to the river, I was convinced that first trip to the river was at least 10 miles - it was 0.9 miles, now I do that trip easily.
I am working up to a 2.6 mile trip to the local Supermarket and a 4.1 mile trip to the country park this year, because the supermarket thing means I will have to think & plan less & my youngest adores feeding the Mrs chickens at the country park
I worked out I now cycle the river trip at an average speed of a whole 7 miles an hour, my husband then declared me a cyclist, something he said he would not do until I cycled faster than people walked!
So I can see my improvement I have recently purchased a cycle computer to know how many miles I do in total, I like the idea of that bit, but it kind of worries and perhaps bemuses me about the whole 20 mile trip business and pushing yourself to do better, faster on trips with the strava thingy. Is that a phone thing (I dislike mobile mine is the basic type phone, text not even a camera)
So could someone enlighten me about the faster, longer, better bit, is it more because you view cycling as a sport or ? or?
The tale is as follows, got rid of second car in July last yearas once eldest got a place in a local school, I didn't need to drive him the 10 miles there anymore, plus I am a SAHM and rarely used the car, so it was bye bye car.
My Dad who rides an electric bike suggested a bike with a child trailer as my then 6 year old was good on his bike & my just 2 year old could go in the trailer. - oh how I laughed & laughed (I don't do exercise ever nor had I been on a bike in over *cough cough* 20 ish years), I came home and said to hubby guess what Dad said about the car going, & told him, expecting him to laugh & laugh. He didn't he said give it a go, I said are you taking the pee?
So we got a 2nd hand bike (which was crap tbh) and a trailer, I would not let hubby buy brand new bike as I said to him look I will give it a go I might try it once and say sod this for a lark.
I tried it, I spent evenings pedaling the length of our road without the trailer, then with the trailer, then I did a trip to the river, I was convinced that first trip to the river was at least 10 miles - it was 0.9 miles, now I do that trip easily.
I am working up to a 2.6 mile trip to the local Supermarket and a 4.1 mile trip to the country park this year, because the supermarket thing means I will have to think & plan less & my youngest adores feeding the Mrs chickens at the country park
I worked out I now cycle the river trip at an average speed of a whole 7 miles an hour, my husband then declared me a cyclist, something he said he would not do until I cycled faster than people walked!
So I can see my improvement I have recently purchased a cycle computer to know how many miles I do in total, I like the idea of that bit, but it kind of worries and perhaps bemuses me about the whole 20 mile trip business and pushing yourself to do better, faster on trips with the strava thingy. Is that a phone thing (I dislike mobile mine is the basic type phone, text not even a camera)
So could someone enlighten me about the faster, longer, better bit, is it more because you view cycling as a sport or ? or?
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