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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Pedaling Backwards Through Life
Today I was sitting at a stoplight. The street that I was waiting to cross is pretty busy - three lanes in either direction. As I sat at the light, this is what I saw (And I am not kidding you):
A man rode a bike past me, but he was riding backwards down the six-lane street. I don't mean that he was going west in an eastbound lane. I mean that he was sitting on the bike correctly and he was going east while facing west. He was pedaling backwards. He was in traffic, almost keeping up. He kept looking back, which was really front, to be sure that he didn't run into anything. Maybe this is some kind of new bike-riding technique that I am not aware of, and you are thinking, "Gee, Carol, where have you been?".
Let me know if you spend your biking hours going backwards. I have a few questions I'd like to ask you.
Focusing on the past while moving toward the future just doesn't seem like the best use of one's energy to me.
But then again, I suppose that many of us have been known to do that quite often.
A man rode a bike past me, but he was riding backwards down the six-lane street. I don't mean that he was going west in an eastbound lane. I mean that he was sitting on the bike correctly and he was going east while facing west. He was pedaling backwards. He was in traffic, almost keeping up. He kept looking back, which was really front, to be sure that he didn't run into anything. Maybe this is some kind of new bike-riding technique that I am not aware of, and you are thinking, "Gee, Carol, where have you been?".
Let me know if you spend your biking hours going backwards. I have a few questions I'd like to ask you.
Focusing on the past while moving toward the future just doesn't seem like the best use of one's energy to me.
But then again, I suppose that many of us have been known to do that quite often.
Labels: Biking Backwards
posted by Carol at 4:21 PM
7 Comments:
That sounds like an amazing sight!
I only believe it because I saw it. And I saw the people beside me gawking, too.
Seems dangerous to say the least.
I haven't seen anything like that and I kinda doubt it's some new trend. It sounds like something a daring teenager might do but a man? Perhaps I give men too much credit...
Have a beautiful day today. Peace.
~ RS ~
Hey Rubyshooz,
So glad to have you stop by!
I just like this strange story as a reminder to myself to be where I am right now, but facing forward - letting go of what is behind me.
I hope that you, too, have a beautiful day! Peace and crazy journeys! (I LOVE your sign-offs!)
You can track me at: www.bikingbackwards.net
I really didn't make you up!!!
Thanks for contacting me!
I wrote a new post about you. I hope that you receive a lot of support along your journey. And I hope that our government will find the compassion to do the right thing.
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