Bike Riding Blog Log
Don’t really update this thing much anymore. What with twitter, facebook, and blip.fm, my limited publishing desires are pretty much met. So i’m going to use this as a log for my daily bike rides. Today is day 2; i’ve set a goal to go for a ride of 30 minutes or more for 30 days in a row, at least. Call it the Bike Ridin 30/30.
Today got out at around 11am and was back by 11:45. I pretty much always bring my hand-me-down Zune along for the ride and today my favorite track was:
I hope that plays the right track, but I have a feeling its just gonna play my latest blip. ah well.
today was hazy, but sunny enough that i could feel the warmth of the sun on my face and there were bright sparkles bouncing off the ripples in the Ballona Creek culvert.
I rode out to the little turnaround next to the local vegetation information sign just passed Centinela. Just as I turned around for the ride back, Ricardo Villalobos’s “Enfants (chants)” came on and was my soundtrack for pretty much the entire ride back. Its a repetitive, minimal house track with some piano and the sound of kids doing a kind of chant-singing. was very meditative and calming. rode by the school and saw kids running around the track for gym class. pined for the innocence and freedom of youth. then remembered how trapped by school I felt as a kid and got over it and just enjoyed the moment as it was.
watched my shadow for much of the ride back since it was now a bit in front of me. obedient shadow, it does pretty much whatever i’m doing, just flattened and at a different angle.
near the end of my route along the Ballona Creek bike path i heard the sound of heavy machinery over the music in my ear buds. my eyes darted up to the Duquesne Ave bridge looking for a truck, but there were only cars going by. then i noticed something under the bridge. it was a big rig! driving in reverse through the water towards me. it was pushing (since it was going backwards) a really long trailer with a really long steel beam on it. i was trying to figure out how long it must be when i noticed 107′ 9″ spray painted on the corner. So I guess it was over 107 feet long. wow. never know what you’re gonna see down at the creek.
