As some of you may know, I've started cycling and have really gotten into it, thanks to Vivek Radhakrishnan, for giving me an enthusiastic introduction to it!
I had been looking forward for this race the whole week, the day that I returned from that 50 km ride, I was thinking about the next race. On Friday, I ended my internship, to be honest; one of my reasons was that I really wanted to cycle, to lose weight, and to ensure that I built up endurance for the eventual 200km brevet ride in January 2011.
So to prepare for this I had been promising myself that I’d fix my seat so that I could sit comfortably and race at my true potential. Full of confidence in light of my new found freedom, I decided; let me fix my seat Friday evening itself!
So I went down, and slid out my bike, I started by spraying WD-40 to loosen it up, no luck, so I thought to myself, let me remove the seat!
10 minutes later, the seats removed, and I go to work at it with pliers, wrenches and a hammer. The god-damned pole just would not budge!
Finally, I’m sick of this so I decide, “forget it, better to have my seat than to not have one!” I look down at the pieces of my seat and I realise, ‘Shit! How do I put this back together?’
After much struggling, I succeeded, the seat was back on and I went up to my bed having spent 1 ½ hours with a net result of a big fat 0.
Saturday morning, I kept thinking, let’s go and get more WD-40 (I had finished what was left the previous night) or let me go to the bike shop and get them to fix it.
Saturday came and went, and I just never got down to it, looks like the race just got even harder.
Just imagine climbing up Everest, that’s hard right?
Now remove your clothes and climb, THAT’S Harder!
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