Totally Amazing Myself.
I remember back to almost exactly 1 year ago. My best friend asks me if I want to go on a bike ride with him. I’m like, “SURE”, cause hell I’ve got this bike in my garage that I bought with intentions to use it, let’s go!
Let me frame this up for you. It was about 90 degrees outside, almost no wind (which is rare in Oklahoma) and I’m 330+ pounds.
I drive my car to Matt’s house (which is all of a mile from my own), we jump on our bikes and start riding. We get a tiny bit more than half a mile (been completely flat ground the whole ride, no hills) and I AM DYING. Sore. Out of breath. Hurting.
WTF?
Fast forward to the long holiday weekend. Friday, I rode to Matt’s house from mine, then we covered about 25 total miles that morning in about 3 hours (I say total because we rode up to Aspen Athletic, did our shoulder/trap workout, then rode to Route66 Park in Bethany and did BootCamp then rode home).
On Sunday, we rode 28 miles! I repeat, 28 miles! That was with 1 ten minute stop for drinks and a energy bar an hour into the ride. Tons of hills, mostly wind in the face (specially on the ride back!)
I still cannot believe sometimes I can do things like this. I mean, I still remember that guy that could not get a stinking mile! It sure is exciting tho!
I am sure I will continue to amaze myself with things I can do from here on out.
Update: I was told by the bike salesman at the bike shop, that if I can go 25 miles on a mountain bike with knobby tires, I could make 40-50 miles easily with a road bike. (My bike is pictured in the post below)
