i’m stupid. i bought a bike yesterday off the swap shop for $75. it’s an old schwinn road bike, and i planned to ride it around town as a means of exercise. when i picked it up yesterday the seat was too high, but i knew i could lower the seat as soon as i got home. so all i did was throw one leg over the bike to make sure the frame wasn’t too big, and then stick it on my bike rack to take home.
so last night i get home, change out of my work clothes, go outside, lower the seat, and get ready to take the bike on a test ride around the parking lot. i throw one leg over and–uh oh. big uh oh. stupid sarah. in my excitement about getting a bike, i forgot that at work i was wearing shoes with a significant heel. well, a 3-inch heel of course makes me 3 inches taller. which makes me fit on a bike i really should fit on. sigh. when i had normal shoes on last night, i found that the bike frame is, in fact, too big for me.
i was so excited about getting the bike that i was dumb. sigh. now i will have to turn around and sell it again. luckily i think rich may be interested.
as for me, i may take this as a sign that i just need to go buy myself a new road bike from the bike store. we’ll see.
so instead of biking, i went for a 3.5 mile run. my shins didn’t really bother me during the 5k on saturday, but they are sore today. i think i’ll probably go back to the elliptical machine and keep doing that for another couple weeks. if my shin splints haven’t gotten better after a month with little-to-no road running, maybe i’ll go see a doctor. though i doubt there’s anything a doctor can do besides say “voila, you have shin splints.”
in other news, last night i asked nick to marry me because at the moment i can’t imagine any other guy being as randomly nice to me as he is. happy sigh.
off to do the tuesday stuff.
