I got Charmaine CycleOps Fluid2 bike trainers for her birthday this year. Of course, she hasn’t had her birthday yet, but Contender Bicycles had a big sale that didn’t coincide exactly with her birthday. At any rate, she seems happy to have them. We tried them out the first or second night after we brought them home, but I didn’t last very long. It’s hard to stay cool without the wind from actual riding.
Charmaine bought a good-sized fan that we set up in front of the bikes. There went my I’m-too-hot-without-the-wind excuse. Tonight we decided to spin for about 30 minutes while watching some TV. It worked rather well. I was a bit scared to spin for longer than that, knowing how my swim coach enjoys long and difficult sets of kicking… and swim practice is only 24 hours away.
My right foot started to feel really loose while riding, but I pushed on through. At the end of the ride, I couldn’t unclip my right shoe from the pedal, so I took my shoe off. Some of the screws that held the clip onto my shoe had come loose and popped out. And because I pushed through, I did quite a bit of damage to the bottom of my shoe. Hopefully we’ll be able to put it all back together and ride some more later this week.
Very cool! Charmaine is very excited about them. Do you keep other sites like the garden one you had in the summer?
I have a few blogs that I’ve started and abandoned here and there. I expect to start posting on the garden blog again soon, but there’s not a lot happening during winter, as you can imagine. I may pick some of the other blogs up again from time to time, but without a recurring event to write about, I find it difficult to keep writing. With the garden blog, I could force myself to take pictures each week, so I had something to write about. With this swim blog, we have practice at least twice a week, so I have something to write about. With the others, I go in spurts, writing a bunch close together, and then fade out.