Biking expedition!
I have to write about our 20.1-mile biking expedition! Sin Yee and I joined Ryan and Kah Fatt for a biking trip yesterday...we biked all the way to Pioneer's Park! That took us about 2 hours because we missed a bike trail and ended up cycling around for a while looking for our friends who were bbqing at the park. That was a great achievement in my opinion because I haven't biked such long distance in my life!
Actually our biking trip didn't start off that great...2 seconds after we "officially" kicked off our biking trip, I realised that both my tires were flat! I was totally embarassed I must say. Everyone had to stop, and Ryan and Kah Fatt helped me inflate my tires. By the time this was done it was already around 5:40pm. Then off we went...
We were just barely a quarter of the way when I started to regret that I didn't bring a camera. The view was breathtaking...we even biked along some streams, and we saw some little rabbits and even a fake deer (which, of course, I mistook as real, sigh). I was pedalling furiously to keep up with Ryan and Sin Yee, wondering why everyone else could pedal so slowly and yet go so fast, when Kah Fatt pulled up next to me and asked me, "Do you know how to change gears?" I knew at once that I was being silly again...I was on 3rd gear the whole time! After that really embarassing moment I learned to use the gears on the bike and the rest of the journey was much smoother.
When we reached home at last (after a very delicious meal at Pioneer's Park thanks to Chee Peng and family) it was around 9:40pm. Because it was summer time, it actually didn't get very dark even then although Ryan and Kah Fatt had their bike lights on already. If it was winter time it would have already been dark when we left (at around 5:40pm)...but then again, if it was winter time biking would be the last thing we'd do... I thought my bones were going to shatter into a thousand pieces when I finally got back to my room, I was so tired! But surprisingly my body didn't ache much today (I think I ached more from dance practice, hah!) although I will have to avoid sitting on hard surfaces for a few days.
Next on my to-do list before I go biking again? Get a more comfortable bicycle seat!
Actually our biking trip didn't start off that great...2 seconds after we "officially" kicked off our biking trip, I realised that both my tires were flat! I was totally embarassed I must say. Everyone had to stop, and Ryan and Kah Fatt helped me inflate my tires. By the time this was done it was already around 5:40pm. Then off we went...
We were just barely a quarter of the way when I started to regret that I didn't bring a camera. The view was breathtaking...we even biked along some streams, and we saw some little rabbits and even a fake deer (which, of course, I mistook as real, sigh). I was pedalling furiously to keep up with Ryan and Sin Yee, wondering why everyone else could pedal so slowly and yet go so fast, when Kah Fatt pulled up next to me and asked me, "Do you know how to change gears?" I knew at once that I was being silly again...I was on 3rd gear the whole time! After that really embarassing moment I learned to use the gears on the bike and the rest of the journey was much smoother.
When we reached home at last (after a very delicious meal at Pioneer's Park thanks to Chee Peng and family) it was around 9:40pm. Because it was summer time, it actually didn't get very dark even then although Ryan and Kah Fatt had their bike lights on already. If it was winter time it would have already been dark when we left (at around 5:40pm)...but then again, if it was winter time biking would be the last thing we'd do... I thought my bones were going to shatter into a thousand pieces when I finally got back to my room, I was so tired! But surprisingly my body didn't ache much today (I think I ached more from dance practice, hah!) although I will have to avoid sitting on hard surfaces for a few days.
Next on my to-do list before I go biking again? Get a more comfortable bicycle seat!
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