Almost 1 1/2 years before when I first went for a cycling day out organized by Art of cycling ,I felt cycling 45 km's in Bangalore city at a stretch in 3 hours is an impossible task.
But I challenged my thoughts and went ahead and paid the money 999 for a day trip that started from Leela palace in mg road then saw the Bangalore in a different perspective in a cycle.
We where a group of four me,two foreigner girls and pankaj the organizer.We have been to two churches in mg road and Cubbon park ,high court on a cool Sunday morning and had breakfast from koshis around 9 pm and cycled back to the organizers flat near Leela palace road.
I was the last one who was riding in that group,struggling to get in pace with the group.But that day after the cycling was done I felt so happy even though every inch of my body was aching.
Then came to the idea to me why not buy a cycle for some casual ride in btm area where I stay in the weekend,I have crossed trough that shop "Fitness through travels" in BTM 2nd stage many times and have once asked also how much a cycle cost,after hearing the price I thought those guys are crazy selling cycles for 15 to 20 k prices and dropped my plan for buying one.
But this ride have changed my thought,one Friday evening with my friend I went there and didn't have a single rupee with me still checked out the cycles and took a test ride on the Schwinn frontier expert cycle.
I dint have plan to buy the cycle on that day but after the ride I was like I wanted to buy it right away,my friend given his credit card to me seeing my enthusiasm and brought that little beauty to me.
I have done some casual rides after that in an around btm area and thought of cycling to office mainly because of the unavailability of buses and high charging auto wala's.
Initially it was difficult for me took 45 minutes and some times almost 1 hour to reach office and most of the time time after I reach I used to be deadly tired and wanting to have some food.I have started out with minim 2 to 3 days in a week,slowly I have picked up the pace and could reach office in 30 minute ride and felt so energetic after that. and cycled every day to office I have continued this for 3 full month.It was like achieving some goal feeling so free.
Then I thought why not go for weekend rides as I already have couple of hours of daily ride experiences,and asked my friend from fitness through travels are they doing any weekend rides,he said yes and I planned to join them for shivanahalli ride on a Saturday,the ride was smooth an nice till before we reached the destination,I have gone through a bad fall in that ride when I was riding like a bird in a downhill nothing much happened but my cycles rim was damaged and I was then afraid of getting in to the bike.
I have given a break to my cycling after this bad fall and after I recovered from the shock ,I again started riding to office,keeping apart all bad experiences.but it didn't stay long as I started picking up the pace again my beloved bike got stolen on a bad Sunday night.But I was in no mood to give up on the cycling so I got my brothers cycle to Bangalore and started riding in it.
Now it been quite a time I am riding feeling so good after the ride but want to enhance my cycling duration to daily workout ride in the morning/evening for 1 to 2 hours.
I now feel it is impossible to get up in the morning daily and do this ride but I know its only thought I will do it in one month down the line.
Cheers and Happy cycling to all.
But I challenged my thoughts and went ahead and paid the money 999 for a day trip that started from Leela palace in mg road then saw the Bangalore in a different perspective in a cycle.
We where a group of four me,two foreigner girls and pankaj the organizer.We have been to two churches in mg road and Cubbon park ,high court on a cool Sunday morning and had breakfast from koshis around 9 pm and cycled back to the organizers flat near Leela palace road.
I was the last one who was riding in that group,struggling to get in pace with the group.But that day after the cycling was done I felt so happy even though every inch of my body was aching.
Then came to the idea to me why not buy a cycle for some casual ride in btm area where I stay in the weekend,I have crossed trough that shop "Fitness through travels" in BTM 2nd stage many times and have once asked also how much a cycle cost,after hearing the price I thought those guys are crazy selling cycles for 15 to 20 k prices and dropped my plan for buying one.
But this ride have changed my thought,one Friday evening with my friend I went there and didn't have a single rupee with me still checked out the cycles and took a test ride on the Schwinn frontier expert cycle.
I dint have plan to buy the cycle on that day but after the ride I was like I wanted to buy it right away,my friend given his credit card to me seeing my enthusiasm and brought that little beauty to me.
I have done some casual rides after that in an around btm area and thought of cycling to office mainly because of the unavailability of buses and high charging auto wala's.
Initially it was difficult for me took 45 minutes and some times almost 1 hour to reach office and most of the time time after I reach I used to be deadly tired and wanting to have some food.I have started out with minim 2 to 3 days in a week,slowly I have picked up the pace and could reach office in 30 minute ride and felt so energetic after that. and cycled every day to office I have continued this for 3 full month.It was like achieving some goal feeling so free.
Then I thought why not go for weekend rides as I already have couple of hours of daily ride experiences,and asked my friend from fitness through travels are they doing any weekend rides,he said yes and I planned to join them for shivanahalli ride on a Saturday,the ride was smooth an nice till before we reached the destination,I have gone through a bad fall in that ride when I was riding like a bird in a downhill nothing much happened but my cycles rim was damaged and I was then afraid of getting in to the bike.
I have given a break to my cycling after this bad fall and after I recovered from the shock ,I again started riding to office,keeping apart all bad experiences.but it didn't stay long as I started picking up the pace again my beloved bike got stolen on a bad Sunday night.But I was in no mood to give up on the cycling so I got my brothers cycle to Bangalore and started riding in it.
Now it been quite a time I am riding feeling so good after the ride but want to enhance my cycling duration to daily workout ride in the morning/evening for 1 to 2 hours.
I now feel it is impossible to get up in the morning daily and do this ride but I know its only thought I will do it in one month down the line.
Cheers and Happy cycling to all.
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