This here's my initial post. Couldn't stand the naked blog, but haven't had time to upload any good photos or write a post. I realize this doesn't bode well for my blog, but eh.
On A Bike, On A Hill is my blog about riding a bike in the city. I'm not training for anything or riding a cool bicycle. Unlike my husband, who is a fixie-riding, event-training-for, cycling maniac, I am not even particularly interested in bicycles. AND I'm deathly afraid of being hit by a car or accidentally mowing down a pedestrian with my bike. But I quit the gym because I just can't stand to work out on a fake bicycle. Whenever I pass the health club window near the entrance to I-5 South, at the foot of the Denny hill overpass, I think some day we'll all shake our heads at having wasted all that energy at health clubs when we could be out living lives for free and getting fit in the process.
So I guess riding my bike is sort of an incidental fitness plan. I also do a lot of yoga. Yoga and biking and sometimes walking my daughter to school. That's my plan. Where you come in, Dear Reader, is you help me figure out how to become a savvy city bike rider. I live on Capitol Hill, which really is a hill, surrounded on all sides by hills. So if I leave my neighborhood, there's always a hill awaiting me on my way home. So you'll understand if I'm continually looking for ways to otherwise avoid hills on my rides around town. Avoiding hills and danger, that's the name of the game.
Oh, and I might write about other things, as I see fit. Photos coming shortly.
Ready to play?
[This video not me, but I needed something visual for this post, and it does sort of reflect my newfound zeal for cycling and blogging:
