murph says: i need to see the 1986 movie Quicksilver for the following two reasons.
1. to step up my game for the next time i play 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon.
2. it's about a bike messenger in nyc. and he goes really fast and it's dangerous all the time, and that's what it feels like to be on a bike on these mean streets. you're kind of always going too fast, and it always feels dangerous.
i have to be careful. there is a thrill seeker side of me that totally gets off on the elements of speed and danger. so: keep that in check!
in related news: (this is not gloating, it's honest.) i was blown away by how NOT hard the bike is for me. i guess i have the right kind of legs / leg muscles for it? now, i was not like an undiscovered lance armstrong, but i was going along at a decent clip, and it didn't cost me a whole lot of energy.
someone, please, write this down somewhere where i can't come back and edit it, bc i'm sure it will come back someday to haunt me. but for now i feel very lucky and happy that the bike is not kicking my keister, like i expected it would.
meanwhile, i practically drown at every swim practice, but that's a whole other story.
seacrest. out.