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jazzfishI got a bike last weekend. I had a bike when I lived in Vancouver and I got a lot of use out of it. Then when I was living in Fort and visiting work in Vancouver one week a month I still got a lot of use out of it, but I stored it in the work parkade. And when everything shut down for the plague I left the bike there. Came back a year-plus later to retrieve it, bought a bike rack for the car for that specific purpose... and it had been stolen. Oh well. So last weekend I finally got to use the bike rack that's been on my car for over a year.
All the hills around here are annoying, but I can mostly work around them except for coming home. And not going into uptown New West (so named because it is, quite literally, several blocks of Up from riverfront downtown). Last week I went out riding a bit each day. It is definitely muscles I've not used in a long time, and my lungs remain terrible, but... it's nice. I maintain that bicycling is the correct way to get around in a city.
There's a bike path that mostly follows the Skytrain loop, so yesterday I figured I'd try that and see how far I get. I had ambitions of making it to Metrotown, having lunch, and taking the train home. In the event I only got as far as Edmonds station (5km, about halfway to Metrotown) and was completely wiped out by the time I made it home. I looked a bit closer at the route on Google maps and it turns out that it's a gentle but consistent uphill all the way to... well, to Royal Oak, one stop past Edmonds. So I feel a little better about that.
I also had a splitting headache all yesterday afternoon, which I was initially attributing to dehydration (unlikely, I did drink plenty of water and didn't have the "omg must drink" response when I drank) plus no caffeine. Then I saw reports of lots of wildfire smoke, and the light got progressively more orange-grey as the day went on. So that seems a more likely explanation.
Sleeping a bit better since the temp dropped (though it's back up to thirty this weekend), still deeply unfocused at work. But it's a little better. I'll take it.
All the hills around here are annoying, but I can mostly work around them except for coming home. And not going into uptown New West (so named because it is, quite literally, several blocks of Up from riverfront downtown). Last week I went out riding a bit each day. It is definitely muscles I've not used in a long time, and my lungs remain terrible, but... it's nice. I maintain that bicycling is the correct way to get around in a city.
There's a bike path that mostly follows the Skytrain loop, so yesterday I figured I'd try that and see how far I get. I had ambitions of making it to Metrotown, having lunch, and taking the train home. In the event I only got as far as Edmonds station (5km, about halfway to Metrotown) and was completely wiped out by the time I made it home. I looked a bit closer at the route on Google maps and it turns out that it's a gentle but consistent uphill all the way to... well, to Royal Oak, one stop past Edmonds. So I feel a little better about that.
I also had a splitting headache all yesterday afternoon, which I was initially attributing to dehydration (unlikely, I did drink plenty of water and didn't have the "omg must drink" response when I drank) plus no caffeine. Then I saw reports of lots of wildfire smoke, and the light got progressively more orange-grey as the day went on. So that seems a more likely explanation.
Sleeping a bit better since the temp dropped (though it's back up to thirty this weekend), still deeply unfocused at work. But it's a little better. I'll take it.
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Date: 2022-09-11 10:40 pm (UTC)I have an ancient bike that I should donate/swap for something I might actually ride. But there’s no safe place out here in the land of 1.5-car-wide winding roads.
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