Sad it is when you start anything new to your body.
My body is just starting anew with the bike. This might have been our third or fourth real ride. My feet are used to toes up when riding a horse. When riding a bike, the toes point down quite a bit. One of my feet doesn’t want to point down, so I have torn or stretched some kind of muscle on top of my foot. ouch
I bought a camelback water carrier yesterday at the high price Walmart store. It’s a backpack that holds a water vessel. The “straw” starts at the bottom of the soft plastic water holder and comes up to where you can drink out of the big plastic straw while biking. Well, it leaked. The water dripped down my lower back to the unmentionable area. The unmentionable part of me that sits on the bike seat got wet which made my clothing cling to me in an unmentionable painful way. So, not only did the bike seat hurt me, it double triple hurt me. Men have a word that they use to describe this feeling caused by pulling up someone else’s underwear in a forceful manner.
And somewhere in the few miles that I rode, I wrenched the top of my shoulder and neck muscle. How I could do that riding a bike on flat ground…oh I bet it was when I went over that curb!
Much of the time, I was speeding along at the same speed that my horse can gait. That is very sad considering I was on flat land with perhaps the slightest slope.
Old Yeller didn’t make me too happy today, but at least I’m still alive to try it again.