Ok, I leave sunday for red deer, do some training sorta stuff there for a few days and then I'm out to my first riggin job. I'm going to work the rigs until I make $8000 because thats how much the firefighters course is. oh yea, I was talking to Jen on the phone yesterday and she reminded me of how I wanted to be a firefighter since I was a kid. Being as I have no life and would still love to do it, I'm goin for it. So I'm workin the rigs, coming back here to Kelowna for snowboard season, while training to become a fireman (just by myself going to the gym to get ready) and then I'll try and enroll in the may program because i'll have gotten rid of my N and thats one of the requirements of the program. so looks like I'll actually be kinda busy for the next couple years, compared to the rest of my life anyways.
I also have a biker story for you guys, don't worry, already told mom about it.
So, the other day, I was sitting at kate's place trying to figure out what I'm going to do with my life, and I got really frustrated and decided to go for a ride. I was about half an hour in, riding on a back road to winfield, and I saw a rock about the size of a large grapefruit on the road, right then I realized that I wasn't paying enough attention to my riding because I was thinking about other things in life. and I've learned that when your riding, it's not like going out for a cruise in the truck to think and relax, it has to be all about the ride. anyways, I ride about another ten minutes and I'm back to thinking about life, when I round a slight corner, and BAM! just kidding. but I round this corner not paying enough attention and find myself drifting off the road into the gravel, there were cars infront of me, behind e and coming toward me. I skidded along a gravel truck rut for about 25 feet just trying to stay on my bike. I managed to keep it on two wheel and stay alive. but it really made me realize how important it is to stay focused. I was absolutely pissed off at myself! after all the traffic was gone I turned around and rode home and haven't ridden since, I told myself I wasn't going to ride untill I knew I could stay completely focused on my riding.
One more thing! dirtbikes ride sitting up straight, feet under you, and cruisers ride sitting back stretched out feet up, and I feel like part of me not being able to stay on the road by just quickly turning back into my lane was my seating position. It's a really weird feeling to be sitting in the cruiser position and lean over into turns and it's also hard to do quick maneuvers, It made me feel like maybe I'd be better riding a crotch rocket just for the reason of how at home it feels because of dirtbiking. I'm not sure, but I sure wasn't happy with myself after that mess up!
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