Sunday, August 13, 2006

Another broken bike thingy

This time, I broke the pedal. I did about a 55 mile ride with Texas Iron. The ride left before 7am so it was nice and coolish. We left and I was riding with Joe and Suzanne for a bit. I got whacked in the thigh by a branch. It hurt and left a welt. It felt like I was in Singapore and I got caught putting gum underneath the subway seat. At the turnoff point, I rode by myself since Joe and Suzanne were doing the 100 mile loop. I kept riding by myself and I was pushing pretty good. The route took us on Hwy 12 and man, that is a nice road to ride on. It is smooth and fast. Unfortunately, there isn't much of a shoulder and a decent amount of traffic. I stopped at the last stop with Robbie. I ate a cookie and kept riding. At some point, I couldn't get clipped into my pedal. I kept trying and trying and nothing was happened. After a few miles, I stopped and looked at my pedal. Well, I broke the damn thing. The back part of the pedal that clips into the rear of the cleat was loose. That assembly is held in place by two springs and the springs had came out of place. I rode the rest of the way, about 10-15 miles, without being clipped into the pedal. Basically, I had one clipped pedal and one platform pedal. That didn't stop me from hammering it for the rest of the ride. My calf was sore from slipping off the pedal.

Sunday was a 60min aquajog. Boring!

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