Thursday Night Social Ride

my bike lean

 Last night was a pretty cool night- weather and figuratively speaking. My hair wasn't soaking wet from sweat from the ride- didn't use a helmet. 

I biked from my apt to downtown to Fiesta Beach then to a social ride. After the park stop, biked back home. It was a good night. I hadn't been on this ride in awhile, because I think I have been in my head lately and not in my bike-head. 

I need to remember that when I am dealing with stress, the BEST thing to do is get on my bike, not avoid it. It's easier to stay home and veg, but I always feel 100X better after a good ole 20 mile or so bike ride. 

It was cool to see all the building lights downtown and smell all the foods that I couldn't afford at the moment. Man, I don't know WHAT this restaurant was, but it was downtown somewhere around something, can't remember at the moment, but it smelled like the best spaghetti/lasagna sauce imaginable (and I don't even really go for that stuff these days). I need to ride around and find that smell again. It will be mine...oh yes. It will be mine... 

Jack's bike light- alerts cars that a bike is nearby

I always say the same thing about biking down Guadalupe with the curry. That is my new idea! Bike around town until you smell something delicious, THEN stop to eat. Don't decide where to go to eat BEFORE leaving the house!

There were a lot of people on the on this social ride. Seems like there were a few pockets of UT students doing the ride for the first time, and now I am starting to recognize the same people every week. Sometimes this ride has up to 400 , sometimes 100. There were some people from the Northside rides that I used to partake in. 

John's bike

A family of deer were sitting in the grass at the volleyball courts before I got to my apt. They were so sweet and I couldn't get a picture, because it was so dark, but I did get a picture of random stuff. I could have walked up to them, but one of the little guys had antlers and I don't wanna be on youtube getting my ass kicked by a baby buck.

Biking home alone from downtown around 11pm or midnight could be either really boring or a bit dangerous. *Safety in numbers* glad I know a few peeps.


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