Despite the gloomy forecast heading into this past weekend (and the current, continuing rain), the weather cooperated on Saturday.
Matthew and I co-taught the on-bike portions of CyclingSavvy (Train Your Bike and the Road Tour) for the very first time. In over three years as instructors, we’ve taught the on-bike portions with other local instructors, but never together.
Big Blue also participated in CyclingSavvy for the first time (since I still haven’t, ahem, gotten my butt off the fence about a certain decision).
Big Blue proved up to the task, though we knocked over a cone on the cone weave drill (were it not for the loaded bag, we would have cleared it), and Matthew demonstrated most of the more complicated drills on a “regular” bike.
My original plan was for a picnic lunch in Tower Grove Park on a beautiful fall afternoon. Given that it wasn’t exactly a beautiful fall afternoon (pretty decent really, but chilly and damp, even though it wasn’t raining), we moved the lunch party to Sweet Art.
Six bikes would have completely blocked the sidewalk, so we created our own, impromptu on-street bike parking. A couple of our students had never been to Sweet Art before; it was fun introducing them to a local business that we enjoy.
After lunch, we finished the day with the Tour of [a small part of] South City.
Nothing quite as satisfying or tiring as a day of on-bike teaching! We finished at the church parking lot where we did the bike drills in the morning, and, in my head, there was a car waiting to take us the three miles from the church back to our house. Of course, we had biked to class, and said car was, in reality, already parked at our house. Matthew and I paused in the park for a quick snack, then tackled those last three miles.
That night, I made it to eight 0’clock, but not much later, before I passed out on the couch.
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