As you are a vivid reader of my blog you are well aware of my forays into the world of sports, precisely into the world of running. While it may seem cumbersome and boring to some, running actually quite appealed to me from the start.
For someone who’s not exactly overly competitive, a sport requiring neither a team nor an opponent seemed perfect. Although early dips into the sport were accompanied by near-death experiences, I kept to it. Hell, I even created a damned sports category on here.
At this point, people usually describe how they’ve overcome their initial reluctance to exercise regularly. Well, I won’t step out of line here either. I did overcome my reluctance. But I didn’t overcome the fact that apparently my hip joints think differently. I don’t know why it is that way, and if it’s maybe due to me not exercising for the better part of 25 years, which has left me with hip joints ready to be replaced by shiny new titanium ones, but I simply can’t go on running. After my last two tries, I couldn’t walk or get up straight for a week. Which is not desirable when you do in fact have to get up everyday (and sometimes walk).
So, no more running for me. I did some research and asked people who know about things, and have thus decided to pick up riding my bike, as it is, apart from swimming, the sport that’s easiest on joints. Vienna does sport some great places to go biking, so almost everything’s sorted out already. What is not sorted out is the lack of my bike. Unfortunately, bikes do come in quite expensive shapes, and expensive is something I at the moment cannot afford.
So, in order to find a cheap bike, I checked out craigslist.org, but unfortunately, the Vienna branch isn’t really well developed. To be precise, it’s really quite pathetic. So, in a joint effort to both pick up some speed on the Vienna craigslist branch and my plans on getting in shape again, I’ve posted a classified in the bicycles section. Go there and answer my ad if you’ve got a bike (you want to get rid of, of course…no need in telling me that you’ve got a bike if you then don’t want to give it away). Please also keep in mind that although I’d like a cheap bike, it should still sport the most vital parts, so I can actually ride it.
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Sorry, totally unrelated, buuuuuut: I saw the comment (note?! whatever..) that you added to.. uhhh.. someone’s (whose?) photo on Flickr re: Tool..
Have you already heard Vicarious? Just curious..
Ah, you must be referring to that picture.
Actually, I haven’t listened to it yet, and frankly, I don’t really want to. I want to go into the new album with a clean slate, so i’ll avoid radio for the next two weeks, hehe.
oh, i know your problem. i had it last year. i just can recommend ebay, and a flea market (i bought mine there very cheap!).
cool, you do surprise me! i would like to have a bike as well even though it’s suicidal to ride the bike where I live! but hey, it’s great living on the edge… (not quite)
@eigenschaft: I already had a look at EBay. It’s looking a bit shabby. I’ll check out the flea markets though!
well try the rent a bike for an hour thing in vienna – nothing wrong with tewsting the thing – maybe your joints are not made to perform this sport either – then give it a a try for a ittle money – i haven’t got a bike in stockholm either yet – but took a hundred year old one trying to pump it up back to town fro the countryside. and antique as it is it’s hard to ride but has a quaint number plate from times when bikes were not all that common hereabouts