Bike trailer goodness

The other day I wanted to go to the store and refill our water jug and possibly buy a swing for our upcoming baby.  The difference with this trip however was that I wanted to do it with just my bike trailer that we bought a couple months ago.  It was the first time I hooked it up.

Overall the trip took me an hour, 6:15 pm to 7:14 pm.  That included hooking up the trailer, putting the wheels on, traveling 3 miles round trip, locking and unlocking my bike 4 times and that was because I visited two different stores.  I thought that was pretty good.  And carrying the 40 lbs of water in the trailer wasn't all that heavy either.  I didn't feel like it was really any heavier then just riding around normally.  Just my two cents and encouragement for you to take your bike trailer to do your errands instead of your car.  If you don't have one, get one.  If you don't have a bike, get one.

Bike Trailer

Dun dun dun!  We got one.  It set up real easy and rode around nicely on my bike.  Ashlee tried it too and seemed to like it.  We haven’t gone and gotten groceries yet, but I think we’ll be able to run some kind of errand here soon with it. 

The whole biking thing is interesting cause it invites me to be much less woosy and way more bad to the bone.  Done to the marrow man.  Real bad. 

I’ve ridden the bike down to the local hardware store to get some things that a few months ago I would’ve just hopped in the car for for the two minute car ride.  I’ve also put off going to wally world and other places cause I didn’t want it to ride in the car when I could do it another time when I legit had some other things to do.  Overall I’m very pleased with the experience.  I need to quickly re-learn how to ride without touching the handle bars.  I just need to find a good flat parking lot.  I’ll have to post some pics soon of us on our bikes that Ashlee had us take.  We did make a ride down main street on our bikes 4^th of July to get breakfast.  That was nice and fun.  Good times.

Biking

     I’ve been reading this blog recently that talks about biking a lot.  Health, social, financial benefits are openly touted and very well catalogued and scientific even.  On this same blog I also read about constantly optimizing your life, i.e. analyzing how you’re doing things and at least just being open to changing them and if no change is needed then keep on keepin’ on.  Perhaps things are just going along swimmingly, but sometimes you’ll do analysis and you’ll realize you need a change.  Now being brave and admitting that a change is needed is the first step.  Then busting through that REALLY uncomfortable feeling of stepping out of your comfort zone is the next step and that is where I’m at currently. 

     I want to bike now.  My mind registers this, but doesn’t want to do it…completely.  I will do it to the best of my ability around town.  Luckily since we’ve moved stores, church, library, and family are closer to home and so riding the bike will be much easier.  Now I just gotta find a coding job that is minutes away from home.  From my old house I rode my bike to work and back once and it took about 40 minutes.  If I could get something like 15 minutes away on bike that’d be amazing. 

     Mentally I’m already kinda biking in my head, which is one of the benefits of biking apparently.  Instead of hopping in a car to get bike parts, bananas, and milk in two or three separate trips in a car I’m thinking I’ll just wait to do them all at once since riding around on my bike several isn’t as appealing as doing it all at once.

     Anywho I’m there mentally biking.  Now to just ran errands biking.  I love the blog’s quote, “It’s like shedding all of the stress and responsibility of adulthood that have crusted over you and going back to being eight years old again…without losing an ounce of that golden power and freedom that comes with being an adult.”