When I got home from work today, Charmaine was already dressed in her cycling gear and ready to ride the trainer. I was a little late leaving work, so I was a bit concerned that she would have started without me, but she was still waiting. It turned out to be a pretty good ride. I was in a higher gear than normal and doing fine… but then we started messing around, seeing who could ride at the highest gear for the longest. That burned me out rather quickly, and then I ran into a problem. My bike refused to down-shift. I was stuck on my big gear in the front. That wasn’t all that big of a deal, since I could still make it fairly easy on the back, but it was weighing on my mind. Finally I took about a 1 minute break and got it to shift back down on the front. After that it was hard to get back into the rhythm, but we eventually did. We made it through an entire West Wing episode and then about half an episode of The Big Bang Theory.