Rhapsodies

I finally got around to buying my own bicycle pump after putting it off for way too long. Usually waiting until the wheel’s noticeably soft and then making due with a nearby air pump at the gas station.

I’d come to realizing that I would need one of my own for numerous reasons, the biggest one being ever since I started doing my morning bike workouts where I’m constantly trying to cut down seconds I’ve become acutely aware just how much difference a full tire makes and just how fast it looses air… In other words, it’s a good idea to fill it up a little bit more than once a month. The other reason is I may or may not have blown out a tire at least twice on the gas station air pumps and that is rather an expensive habit to get into.

While I’d been slowly comparison shopping for a while the last straw was last afternoon when I was doing some basic maintenance noticed that my back tire was about as soft as I’d allow it to get while still riding it. So I went to my favorite hardware store and found a cheap one for twelve dollars.

Needless to say this morning’s routine proved exactly the difference in the speed of a good tire, I’d been having a crappy week with my workouts most likely due to the soft tire along with a few other things. Today felt like I had added another gear to my bike. What I thought was going to be a mediocre ride (I’d forgot to turn on my alarm so had  a late start) had me passing my usual markers by so much I was wondering if my runtime app was working properly, finishing with my second best time of thirty-four  minutes and thirty-five seconds!