Not doing too well at regular entries to my workout diary/blog. I recommit to keeping track of these things.
So, many moons ago I found a pair of clipless pedals/cleats on sale and ordered them. A few moons later, I found a pair of compatible road shoes, on sale, and ordered them. They came in sometime this winter when I didn't have my road bike out so they got shoved under the bed together until I remembered them later.
It's "later." I have installed the pedals, attached the clips, and spent my first evening figuring out how the heck to work these clipless pedal thingies... per recommendations from friends and YouTube videos, instead of going out on the road I just settled in to a corner of the garage to practice clipping in/out repeatedly until I had the basic motion down. And apparently, I stink at it. After over half an hour of trying to clip in, clip out, clip in, clip out, I still can not do it consistently with either foot, I have bruises on my shins and calves from the pedal getting away from me and whacking into the leg that was on the ground, and when the pedal got away from me I would slip forward/backward on the saddle such that my pants pocket caught on the nose of the seat and ripped a rather large hole in my jeans.
I am not discouraged, nor am I overly-annoyed about the jeans. But I think I need a few more evenings in the garage before I dare try going out in traffic! :-(
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