IOCC Bike Ride
This Saturday I rode in my first cycling event, an extremely short (6 mi.) charity event for IOCC. It was fun enough, although I made two mistakes. One was due to my inexperience with cycling cleats: after a long smooth downhill I came to a very nice stop—the only problem was that I forget to unclip from my pedals, and hence suffered a nasty fall. Thankfully, due to my other mistake no-one saw me. Y’see, the guy leading the ride chose to travel at an infuriatingly slow rate (I was doing 70 rpm or so in my slowest normal gear), and so I chose to ride on ahead, asking first if the trail were marked out properly. Naturally, I was told that it was, and naturally it wasn’t (but I’ll admit of course the fault is mine for being impatient). But due to this little miscalculation the riders were all about a mile in another direction entirely when I’d my spill, so it all works out for the best.
