BIKE BATTERIES

Date: Sunday 22 March 2009
Time: 8.29am
Location: Belmont Race Course(near Burswood), WA, Australia
Photo by: a stranger who was also taking a photo of her friend

I took part in the Freeway Bike Hike today, raising money for the Asthma Foundation, getting some exercise, experiencing biking on the freeway and feeling some sense of achievement.
It was a last minute decision (5pm on Friday). I haven't biked much lately(as in, at all. Last time was a few weeks ago, and probably only 4kms or so) so my training yesterday was riding to the ABC Studios in East Perth, onto the city for breakfast and back. About 10kms in all. I didn't want to over do it. Even from this small ride I had saddle pain! So I bought some bicycle pants with padding (!) hoping it would help.
When I started this morning, I was sore, and my back and shoulders hurt a little bit too (the back issue is still from a few weeks ago I think, though, was gone in the last week). But once on the bike I was fine. I'll feel muscle pain in the morning though... And won't be able to get on my bike for a few days at least!! Luckily I don't feel anything sitting in a normal chair. :D

I had a bag with me, mainly to carry my camera so I could take photos and video on the way.

I finished in 1hour and 10 minutes, which I'm quite pleased about.
I didn't get an after photo :P

Finally had a great opportunity to use my gadgets (tripod + interval timer remote) for a good reason: to respond to today's challenge! So I mounted my camera on the tripod and configured the remote to take 20 pix with a 1 second interval, so hopefully at least one of them would be usable. And here you see the result.

In case it's not obvious: that's me on my exercise bike, which in Holland, interestingly enough, is called "home trainer". None of my Canadian cousins knew the word ;-)

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