Love, Life and Puppy Dog Tales

Lessons Learned this morning on my second 'official' bike ride. a) I can't ride a bike like I drive a car - I have to look directly IN FRONT of the bike, not only down the road a distance b) the trash thrown from cars lands in bike lanes (like water bottles, still full of water) (see a above) c)speaking of water, don't discount having water with you on a bike ride, even on a short trip. (my cages and water bottles arrive today) d) REALLY glad I practiced clipping in/out (esp ecially out) at home, in the safety of soft cushy things (thank you my wonderful wife  Ni Kki  !) or I might be laying on my side in the street in front of a stranger's house (see a and b above) finally.... e) you never really know how many hills your town has until you have to ride up them on a bike. (FYI - Temecula has A LOT of hills. ) Here's to new adventures...!

There's a man I admire greatly that I see nearly every day and I don't even know his name.  I doubt I ever will.   Every morning as I drive to work, I see a variety of people out exercising.  Most in pairs, wearing fancy get ups.  Some solo, iPOD in, Nike's on, trucking right along.  I almost never give those people a second glance.  Aside from the dancing jogger who fascinates me to no end - but she's a subject for a different post.... This man, however, is different.  Sunny and warm.... windy and rainy.... overcast and gloomy, aside from a jacket, he wears the same thing. A button up shirt. A pair of khaki pants. A pair of what appear to be black loafers - though to be honest, they could be all black running shoes. And he is jogging.  He has no iPOD.  He isn't 'appropriately' dressed.  And yet, he is out there every day, jogging. At first he struck me as a person who must have woken up and decided that today was the day ...