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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Yesterday I drove down to the Big Sur with Sarah. She ran a half marathon, I ran five miles of it with her which was a lot for a guy who hasn’t ran a half mile in the last five years. A man who used to love running.
Two miles into the run, my bones started to ache, ankles, inner thigh bones, i was exerting more energy into up and down than into forward progress. I walked back to the car (to pick her up at the end of the coarse) when i concluded that every mile forward was one more crippling mile backwards.
Then she finished the brutal two hour run and acted like it was some epic event, as if she had been only barley able keep going, as if she almost gave up and hitchhiked. And then admited that its the jarring pain of funning that stops her evey time.
I have ridden from SF to SLO twice, in two days each time, in poor physical condition each time, drinking alcohol and smoking tabaco along the way.
The bicytcle is amazing it allows you to go burn 500 calories an hour for over 24 hours on end. It allows you to keep riding after you no longer have the strength to stand. Biting off santa cruz to san louis obisbo in 24 hours feeling morbid and depressed after having surpassed a wide spectrum of human fatigue. A big trip.
All bicycles poses the ingenious efficiency of the wheel, (arguably) applied to its maximum potential, the bicycle is a celebration on the the wheel, the bicycle is a celebration of the chain. The bicycle is a celebration of itself.
The bike converts runners. It converted me, It will convert Sarah as well.
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