Snappy, Snappy: Not a Sound You Want To Hear From Your Bike

I got home from work this afternoon and hoped on my bike. I wanted to do back-to-back Spinnervals workouts (the “Tempo” workout, and then the “Intervals” workout). The Tempo workout has 8 longer, sustained intervals, and the Intervals workout has 12 short, speedy intervals. All was going along spinningly...

...until my second-to-last interval. I hunkered-down into my aero bars at the start of that interval. My left “aero pad” shifted down a little under the pressure. I grabbed it to pull it back up, and it snapped right in half with a big CRACK.

Here’s me holding the broken piece that still has the pad attached to the part that broke off:

So I finished my last 2 intervals (OFF the aero bars), and cooled down. When I went to make a Totino’s Pizza after my workout, it looked like this as it came out of the box:

That HUGE hole means it was no longer sealed for freshness. And quite possibly poisoned. So I had to throw it away.

Let’s recap:

- I broke my brand new bike.
- My pizza was broken.

After this current streak of bad luck with regards to breaking things, I figured the best thing to do was to go trim my pubes. JUST KIDDING!! That would have spelled D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R!!!! The morning news would have had this as its top story: “Local man bleeds to death through penis after horrible man-scaping accident.”

Don’t forget to stop by tomorrow (Wednesday) to see the rules for the “Tales of a Virgin Athlete” contest that I’m hosting. EVERYONE is welcome to participate, and I’ll be giving away $450 in prizes!! Ya’ll come back now, ya hear?!