If I ever say, ever, ever say that it should be no problem to bike to the zoo, take my bike away from me, get a strait jacket, and lock me up in an asylum.
We went to the zoo today, took the brand new trail just down the road from us that goes pretty much right to the zoo... almost all uphill... took us about twenty minutes, even though I had to stop for water and walked up one nasty hill. So that wasn't horrible. Not even terrible.
Had a lovely time with Tracy, Rachel and respective children. Played in the splash pad, had some picnic food, it was all good...
then it was time to go.
Silly me, thinking, oh, I won't take the trail home, even though I know it's all downhill but for two hills, in order to skip the last hill, I'll take... let's call it evil road that you should only ever go down, my traitor of a brain said. Yes, the Evil Road will pop me out above the house and hence, no giant hill! Hooray! Here I am already patting myself on the back for being such a genius!!
Wrong. So wrong. So very very wrong. Evil Road just goes up the other side of the massive hill that I live on top of. With even more hills. It took me about an hour to get home. With Keyzia crying and whining and complaining about missing her puppy pretty much the whole time. With a brief stop in a church yard to sit in the shade and have a cry and think about how I could get someone to rescue me from the hideousness that was this bikeride. Or, even someone that I could sell the children to...
So, I'm
lamenting what horrible shape I'm in, vowing to never bike to the zoo
again, etc, etc, I get home, haul everything up the steps into the
backyard and realize my front tire isn't spinning very well...
interesting. And, there's a whole bunch of little bits and pieces
of my front brake pad all over the tire spokes and the tire
itself. In essence, my front brake was on the entire time I was
biking home. I was biking with the brake ON, people.
Nice. Not only was I fighting the hills, but my own BIKE was against me.
UPDATE
It turns out that my quick release front tire wasn't on properly, so it was rubbing the whole way there and the whole way back... Causing friction and making it really hard to pedal. I wasn't coasting at all!
The bike is still having a time out for a few days though.