After not swimming yesterday to spend more time with my wife, I was determined to go to the pool today. I also needed to get a bike workout in today, so I decided to get up at 4:50, get to the pool by 5:20 (they say they open at 5:30, but for some reason they usually open before that) then get back home by 6:10, shower and throw my work clothes into a backpack and head to work on the bike.
All of this worked very well. I felt great during the swim and including warm up and cool down, I swam 600 yards. I went back home, showered and packed my bag. I got everything ready for the bike and headed out at 6:46. Traffic was still light at this time, especially with school out for the summer now.
About 1 mile into the ride, I was on Fairway Drive in Fort Mill flying down a curvy hill at about 30 mph when out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move. At first I thought it was a bird, but very quickly I realized it was bigger than a bird. DEER!!! OH SSHHHIIITTTT!!! It jumped over a guard rail and we were coming closer together with every passing nanosecond. It was running full speed and I am riding at full speed. This can’t be good. I grabbed my brakes as hard as I can and the deer flinched as it came within a foot of my front tire. I tried to decide if what just happened was real or not and once I realized it was, I felt slightly panicked. Then I felt relieved that I didn’t hit it and go flying over the handlebars and land on the asphalt. That would have made for a different feeling this morning for sure. The one silver lining I can think of is that the situation has to be somewhat rare, so the chances of that happening again should be slight. Should be…
The rest of the ride was good and I got to work in just over 34 minutes. The drive normally takes me 20 minutes. It makes me wonder if I could do it more often and I think I will. It saves gas, burns calories and helps with my training. All for only sacrificing 28 extra minutes of the day! Well, maybe a little more than that with having to change into work clothes when I get to work. Even still, I think I will try to incorporate this into my schedule whenever I can.
I will load the bike workouts into the computer once I get home and I will add the links to those onto this post. So stay tuned!
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You should really look into getting a deer alert for your bike. With you being all nimbly-pimbly-like and sneaking up on the animals, the next time might not be so funny of a story… I can just hear it now, a big buck comes out of the woods during the rut and thinks that your trying to go after one of his girls. He starts to charge after you, and with a big swing HE MAKES CONTACT… Look at him go…up up… at the wall!!! KEVIN HAS LEFT THE BUILDING!!!
Ok, so maybe a bit dramatic, but this has just as much of a chance happening as you overturning the ruling on keeping the toilet seat down while not in use.
Oh my! I thought the scariest part was going to be the bridge, but I guess not! How was the bridge?
Blog topic request: Talk about how sweaty you are getting to work, what you do to fix that so your coworkers still like you …
I think more people should bike to work!
The bridge was not as bad as it could be, only 3 cars had to pass me on the narrow bridge.
I checked into deer alerts and apparently they don’t work anyway so I just have to be careful and keep the fingers crossed!
I was kind of sweaty when I got to work, but I was the first one in and I took a “shower” in the sink in the bathroom and swiped some deodorant on to please the co-workers!
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