Yesterday I needed to get some shock for our pool, which is quickly turning green. Instead of jumping in the car and wasting some gas, I decided to kill 2 birds with one stone: run and errand and exercise.
I grabbed a plastic sandwhich bag for my phone, ID, and credit card and I was off for Wal-Mart. I rode from Shadowlawn to downtown to warm up, and then I headed to the 'Mart. Its nice to have a destination when you are riding for exercise, but in Camden County the journey isn't as fun as it should be. People in cars don't give you enough room, if they even alter their course at all for you.
This may be discouraging to anybody that is hoping to get into a healthy routine and save gas by doing errands on their bike, but the only way to make Camden a safer place to ride.................is to RIDE! People need to see more cyclist on the road.
That's not the end of it either. Once you get to the store you must park your bike somewhere. Even if you where to find a place that wasn't completely in the open where you could lock up your precious bike, it would be hit by some bird excrement or be doused by one of those magically appearing rain showers. So you have to walk your bike through the store. Not that big of a deal, except for the fact that the shoes you are wearing sound like tap shoes on the hard floor. So once you get the items that you need and you have paid for them at the self-check out (to save time, of course) the store employees hawk-eye you as you simply place the items in your jersey pocket, along with the receipt. Saving gas and plastic bags attracts more attention than if I were to use a tractor trailer to run errands.
All of these inconviences could be avoided if more people would ride their bikes, and they would also save some change and lose a bit of poundage.
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