My New Road bike

Once upon a time, back in January, I had a crazy idea to participate in a triathlon. My brother Alan is pretty much a pro biker and he was kind enough to let me borrow his fancy cyclocross bike to train for the race, and I used it for the race in April. I slowly gained a small obsession for biking. During this time, I also took a spinning class, which added to my biking obsession.

Then I went to Baltimore. I obviously couldn't take my bike. I was way more sad than anyone could ever imagine. Seriously. I went though biking withdrawals. No joke. I had hyperactive legs, and I didn't even realize it until in lab meetings people would have to physically have to stop my legs from tapping. I didn't ever have that habit before in my life.

I wasn't earning a ton of money for my internship. I earned a lot of money relatively speaking, but it was by no means a lot. However, I was missing biking so much, and all that I wanted to get a road bike of my very own. I thought that I could save up and get my very own road bike. Not a very fancy one, but just a cheap sort of, used one off of the internet or something when I got home.

I contemplated this decision greatly, and I decided that I would go through with it. I hadn't told anyone about this, but right when I decided to do it, I called Alan and I told him. I was super excited. He didn't sound too thrilled. Well, he did, but I don't think he was thrilled with how I was going about doing it. So, then he said that he would help me look for some bikes that I could get, and help me get the best thing.

Long story short...I GOT A ROAD BIKE. MY VERY OWN. Alan had it ready for me by the time I got home. It was the very first thing I saw in my bedroom at home. AND. Alan even surprised me and put STARS on my bike, and my NAME on it, too!!! GAH, I WAS SOOOO HAPPY!!!! It is PERFECT!!!



Then, I got to buy all of the accessories for the bike. Including bike shoes, pedals, biking shorts, etc. I'll be honest, I don't have enough money right now (or didn't want to spend the money right now) to buy my own helmet, so I'm borrowing my brother's helmet for the time being. I'll get my own eventually.





So yeah. I LOVE my biking stuff.

I crashed once. I won't go into details on that. It's embarrassing. But I broke my cleats. I repaired them though. So they're fixed again as of yesterday. So I can go riding again starting tomorrow. I'm stoked!