h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...I decided to attempt a journal of sorts. It's the latest fad on the Brunching UBB to have one's own livejournal or blog, and since I've got this page, I figured, "what the heck. I'll write my thoughts in here."



Yesterday Tom and I went biking with a friend of his in Campbell. There's a park there that has very nice paved bike paths, with thin dirt paths for terrain biking running alongside. I tried to go on the dirt path, but I quickly realized that probably dirtbiking is not my thing. Firstly, I'm scared of hurting myself, and it seems to me that riding fast on a rocky, one-foot-wide path is a good way to crash into either shrubs, rocks, dirt, or my bike. That would hurt. Secondly, I'm not very good at steering along paths. When I play videogames, I'm all over the road. I can't steer at all. A one-foot-wide path is not going to be enough for me to feel safe steering on. Finally, I don't like to run into plants. When the path is only a foot wide, you're bound to run into tons of plants. In the end, I decided to stick to the concrete path...you can bike a lot faster on there, and it feels safer.

I told Tom that for me, mountain biking is like how skiing is for him...too fast and scary for the entertainment/exercise value.

Biking is fun, though. Once I wasn't on the dirt path, I thoroughly enjoyed myself.