Dear So and So

[mtkitchn]

Dear Jogger who runs in the bike lane,
Perhaps you've been subjected to the heat too long and fried your brain, but I'd like to point out the three foot wide sidewalk next to you with nobody on it, as well as the Arizona statute that says a bicycle lane is for the EXCLUSIVE use of bicycles.

To the joggers in the bike lane running against traffic:
To the one out of four who actually hopped up onto the sidewalk...thank you.
To the other three who didn't...do you really want to play chicken with a bike going 20mph? I'm not going to sway into rush hour traffic to avoid you because you're too damn lazy to get on the aforementioned empty sidewalk.

To the joggers in the bike lane running WITH traffic:
Don't look surprised as I whiz by you without a ton of clearance. Again, I refuse to get creamed by an SUV because you won't use the sidewalk, and you obviously didn't hear me shouting at you because of the earphones in your ear. Turn down the music.

Thank you for your attention!

[Dogmama]

Couldn't have said it better. Maybe it's an AZ thing. We get it in Tucson too.

[mimitabby]

Dear Master of the weather

Do you think it's funny to give us gorgeous better than summer days all week and then on Saturday and Sunday, 50 degrees and rain?
We here in Seattle are used to the 50 degrees stuff all year round but it's not fair to give us Sunny and 80 on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday, and even better, Sunny and 75 on Thursday and then turn around and bathe us all going home on bike to work friday.
We've all here put in an order for 50 degrees and rainy on monday because none of us feel like riding on monday anyway.

apparently you aren't listening because I am facing another weekend with rain in the forecast for both days (and it's not just a consideration, it's a fact) and clearing up on monday.
hahahaha

[Selkie]

Dear Sweet Puppy - I'm sorry that your owner is a jacka## and lets you wander across the bike path, making a "flexileash trip line" for cyclists. I'm sorry I scared you when I said "Passing on your left, reel the dog in please." I'm not sorry for telling your owner--under my breath, of course--to "pog mo thoin."

[Popoki_Nui]

Dear Master of the weather

Do you think it's funny to give us gorgeous better than summer days all week and then on Saturday and Sunday, 50 degrees and rain?
We here in Seattle are used to the 50 degrees stuff all year round but it's not fair to give us Sunny and 80 on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday, and even better, Sunny and 75 on Thursday and then turn around and bathe us all going home on bike to work friday.
We've all here put in an order for 50 degrees and rainy on monday because none of us feel like riding on monday anyway.

apparently you aren't listening because I am facing another weekend with rain in the forecast for both days (and it's not just a consideration, it's a fact) and clearing up on monday.
hahahaha

Oh, I am SO with you on this one. Cloudy and cold here in Victoria, after a similar week of 80F weather. I have a serious lack of motivation happening today....riding out in the cold wind with rain threatening seems like too much effort.....
~Sherry.

[Brandy]

Dear man at the gym who is old enough to be my father...

Yes, I'm working my traps. You get an "A" for anatomy today, I would give you a "good job" sticker but I left them in my car. I realize that I'm the only female in the weight room today, but really...you're creeping me out. Might I suggest that you stare at the floor, yourself in the mirror, anything but me.

Thanks,

girlwhoisnotimpressedthatyouknewIwasworkingmytraps

[shadon]

enough already. Okay...last week on White's Hill was hard....the downhills were scarey
and the vocal chord spasms were scary....but c'mon....enough!

you're keeping me from looking forward to the Ride. It's gonna be a differnt ride than I planned on, but really I want to have fun and enjoy this.

please...back off!

[snapdragen]

shadon, you will probably be nervous until you ride out on day 1 - it's perfectly normal! Deep breaths, relax as best you can....you will have the time of your life!

[Dogmama]

Dear man at the gym who is old enough to be my father...

Yes, I'm working my traps. You get an "A" for anatomy today, I would give you a "good job" sticker but I left them in my car.

Too funny!!!

It's weird being the only female in the weight room sometimes. I just put on my headphones & ignore them.

[Lise]

Dear man at the gym who is old enough to be my father...

Yes, I'm working my traps. You get an "A" for anatomy today, I would give you a "good job" sticker but I left them in my car. I realize that I'm the only female in the weight room today, but really...you're creeping me out. Might I suggest that you stare at the floor, yourself in the mirror, anything but me.

Thanks,

girlwhoisnotimpressedthatyouknewIwasworkingmytraps

Maybe you could wear a t-shirt with a picture of your DH in uniform, that says, "Yeah, but you should see the traps on my husband!" L.

[Brandy]

Maybe you could wear a t-shirt with a picture of your DH in uniform, that says, "Yeah, but you should see the traps on my husband!" L.

I'm in there so often without dh that I think I might appear to be single...especially when my lifting gloves cover my wedding band.

I'd use the iPod technique, but I don't have one! DH was planning to get me one for my birthday when I told him I wanted my road bike instead.

[kelownagirl]

Why did you have to pick today to ride up the same hill as me? Don't you know it's not polite to effortlessly glide past a 46 year old woman who is struggling up a steep hill at 6 kmh on her mountain bikes in 100 degree heat after she's already told her husband she doesn't want to climb hills today because it is way too hot but she has been dragged up one anyway? Don't you realize that men, who are also capable of riding effortlessly up a hill but are toodling along slowly so they don't get too far ahead of their newbie, out-of-shape wife, don't like to be passed by pretty, young things who might think they can't ride any faster? Don't you realize that the older, unfit woman gets irritated when her husband suddenly speeds up so he can keep an eye on your perky little lyric-covered butt, and make sure you realize that *he* can indeed ride faster? Don't you know that when this woman gets even more annoyed when her husband suddenly realizes that he's left his wife in the dust while he was chasing the cute young girl up the hill and guiltily turns around to come back to keep his wife company? And finally, don't you think you could have at least found another route so that the same woman and her husband didn't have to catch up with you later at an intersection and notice that you hadn't even broken a sweat while she was still beet-red, huffing and puffing...? Next time you see that woman, do the decent thing and TURN AROUND and take another route. Someday, after you've had 3 babies and haven't ridden in 15 years, it might be you...

(My apologies if it turns out that it was one of you...)

[Lise]

(My apologies if it turns out that it was one of you...)

I wish.

No, no, I mean, I would've been much more polite!

I also wish it were a bit warmer here. How is it that we have a high of 59 for today, and it's 100 in BC, which is surely north of Chicago?!?

Ride on! Lise

[crazycanuck]

Dear pen & paper,

Please remind me to make a list and check it twice before i go biking....Had i made a list & checked twice i would not have left my shoes at home today...

I remembered i'd left me shoes by the door about 10min away from the starting point...

I ended up walking a certain mtb trail...noone was around though...!



c

[Nanci]

Dear CrazyCanuck,

One time when I was training for my first "real" triathlon (first and only, so far, not counting the super-sprint kids tri I did a year ago) I wore my swimsuit to swim, first, and drove to this really cool bike trail, and found out I forgot my bike shorts. So I had to ride in rolled up knit crop pants. I had a hard time deciding if I would look weirder with my bike jersey or my swimsuit...

So now I have a small bag with a spare everything in it in my truck- stuff that I don't miss, like my least favorite jersey and shorts and socks and shoes and swimsuit and a little towel.

And I just store almost all my bike gear in that Mountainsmith Modular Hauler thing in my truck, but I realize probably most people don't have enough room for that.

Nanci