Bikeventures!

Many of you know that my main mode of transportation is my bike. It's used, and a little rusty, and the gears don't always like to cooperate. Okay, they seldom like to cooperate, but I can bike on 3rd and 7th or 6th just fine.

Well, today I put my bike to the test. Seth (my team mate) and I went on a dawn bike ride around the mountain outside my campus. Out my window you can see this statue of Daiyu. He's a famous Chinese Emperor who held back a flooding river in Zhejiang province. Anyway, I learned last week that it didn't take too long to bike around said mountain. I was itching to bike it, so I recruited Seth, and we made a plan.

We woke up at 5:30am... Dawn/sunrise is at 5:40 (and getting earlier). We can some cereal for breakfast, packed water and were off by 6. We stopped to see some statues or monuments, paused by the river for a bit, and checked out this Jade museum. It was huge and awesome, but we weren't allowed to go in. (May have to go back sometime) We were back to our starting point by 7:20 and grabbed second breakfast. Back to the apartment just before 8. I downed some water and rested a bit, and then biked the 20 minutes to school. Thankfully today is my P.E. day with the kids so we just did some games/follow the leader stuff outside. But, I'll tell you now, that I'm gonna sleep sooooooo well tonight. I still have 5 miles to bike yet, to and from school for the afternoon session.

The best part about the bike trip was the scenery. We traveled for an hour and saw dozens of different types of homes, villages, foliage and people. Plus, it didn't feel like the 6am hour. It felt normal to be out biking. I am really glad we made the plan, and stuck to it. I think it will be happening again.... actually, it will definitely happen again. Who knows where we'll go next time.

Oh, and after school this morning, I biked home, showered and went to lunch. We went to this awesome huun-tuun place (soup/dumplings) and then got burrito man after, and I grabbed some dough balls/waffle thing.... So basically, I was super duper hungry after our bike. =)

Until next time.

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