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It may well be "shakin' it's ass" but it's still fugly...
Well it had to happen at some point, and today was the day - lucky me! As you guessed I'm back at work today and a very hard day it's been too.
First of all because I don't have the use of my car I have to cycle into work - the first time in a very, very long time. So I'm earlier than usual and getting all my stuff together so that I can leave the house in good time to get to work promptly.
The first battle I have is that I have to get my bike out of the shed where it has been hibernating for the past 6 months, which isn't easy considering boxes and garden furniture have been secreted in the shed too for the winter months. Eventually though I heave the bike out and I'm able to make my way to work. I don't go the long route which I was taking in the summer, but cut through town instead making the trip a bit easier and shorter considering my fitness levels are at an all time low.
The ride itself wasn't too bad apart from the biting cold and damp conditions and I make into work on time, though it doesn't take very long for my legs to ache and burn and I'm grateful to make the last turn into work and give my butt a break which is also starting to grumble under the pressure of my overly plumb body exerting extreme amounts of weight on to a saddle which is perhaps only a 1/4 the size of my arse.
Luckily it's only today that I have to go through this suffering as I've arrange to have my hire car dropped of at work at lunchtime, which turns up on a very impressive low-loader. So imagine my horror when I look on the back of the thoroughbred stud to see that the rider is somewhat of a lower class of citizen, in this case a renault megane. Like I don't have a big enough arse as it is, I am now subjected to driving a car which quite aptly imitates my silhouette quite nicely. Anyway, after having checked the car thoroughly for bumps and scrapes I then get back to work.
At lunch time I nip out to halfords on the bike and pick up some front and rear lights to put on the bike so that I don't get killed on my way home - and despite picking up the set that say "quick release and fitting" I still have to borrow a screw driver from the bods in the shop to fit the rear light.
The problem now is that I've got the bike and the hire car at work. So when I finish work I cycle home again and wait for Phil to get back so that we can go pick the hire car up and bring it home - its a good job too that we get the car back as it appears I have to go into work at 7.30 tomorrow morning to do a software release, and I sure as hell ain't gonna be cycling 3 miles in the dark at 7 in the morning.
Posted by Abi on the January 4, 2006 9:47 PM
Just forget about the car and take up biking in every day. The excercise will do you good I bet. And the cold isn't that bad.
PS, those Meganes are good cars to drive.