I love cycling so normally Saturday is the day. Maximum distance i have covered so far is 18/20 km.
On 15th October , Milind and I was supposed to do the same , but a day earlier Punitji shared a message of doing 43/45km from Borivali to Bandra with all the bridges along the way and Mr. Milind Meher gave thumbs up !!!
I was like .. hya ... is he even thinking about it . Covering the distance may not be an issue for me as somewhere i still remember Vinod N's statement that you can cycle triple the distance that you can run. But bridges... too much and that to till Bandra and back ... guys there will be verticals on the road... are you kidding me!!!
But as usual, ever cool Mr. Milind said that we can try as much as we can and take U turn ... no issues. Well , that was comforting... but how do i deal with traffic :-(
And there we were at Saidham waiting for Punitji , Vinod and Deepa , till Goregaon we were almost together all going good, took small break near Hub and then came to know that Vinod would return from Goregaon. Post that Punitji and Deepa were no where to be seen :-).
We continued shortly , bridge after bridge ... it was a balance between changing gear , keeping the speed and most important for me, not think too much about the vehicles passing by me at speed of may be 100km/hr. I was almost riding side by side to Milind , whenever there is slightest need to cross the side.. this was also demanding me to be fast , as on bridge incline, he was quite ahead of me and i had to push my self to reach to him before the bridge starts .
We crossed our college "Gov. Polytechnic" and all the memories put smile on my face.
And then it was last bridge ,near Bandra reclamation and somehow distance between Milind and i grew a little , i lost him and he was at the start of the bridge , and i was having panic attack in middle of the road and instead of going right I rushed to left. Milind was waited for couple of minutes , but could not reach him . Fear of crossing the road full of vehicles is not strength , may that's the reason i still cannot drive.
Mr. cool lost his cool and i got what i deserved to be a full :-) no details here , but he did say that if you act like that the vehicle would easily take you with it.
Controlling my fear , guilt of disappointing Milind ...I continued towards Bandra reclamation and we met Punitji and Deepa .
It was beautiful morning with sea in front and the sun turning everything gold.
Punitji. asked if we want to get our photos here , and i told him this is known spot to us in our good old days:-)
While coming back , i thought , i will not be able to take any bridge , but was able to make it with whatever energy that was left in me. Still decided to skip Malad bridge. Water was almost finished and we were looking for coconut water badly. Took a break in Thakur village for same and back to Siddharth Nagar.
This was great experience , i am glad that i am pushing myself , testing my limits , giving it a shot without thinking to much about the end result . I am loving it :-)
On 15th October , Milind and I was supposed to do the same , but a day earlier Punitji shared a message of doing 43/45km from Borivali to Bandra with all the bridges along the way and Mr. Milind Meher gave thumbs up !!!
I was like .. hya ... is he even thinking about it . Covering the distance may not be an issue for me as somewhere i still remember Vinod N's statement that you can cycle triple the distance that you can run. But bridges... too much and that to till Bandra and back ... guys there will be verticals on the road... are you kidding me!!!
But as usual, ever cool Mr. Milind said that we can try as much as we can and take U turn ... no issues. Well , that was comforting... but how do i deal with traffic :-(
And there we were at Saidham waiting for Punitji , Vinod and Deepa , till Goregaon we were almost together all going good, took small break near Hub and then came to know that Vinod would return from Goregaon. Post that Punitji and Deepa were no where to be seen :-).
We continued shortly , bridge after bridge ... it was a balance between changing gear , keeping the speed and most important for me, not think too much about the vehicles passing by me at speed of may be 100km/hr. I was almost riding side by side to Milind , whenever there is slightest need to cross the side.. this was also demanding me to be fast , as on bridge incline, he was quite ahead of me and i had to push my self to reach to him before the bridge starts .
We crossed our college "Gov. Polytechnic" and all the memories put smile on my face.
And then it was last bridge ,near Bandra reclamation and somehow distance between Milind and i grew a little , i lost him and he was at the start of the bridge , and i was having panic attack in middle of the road and instead of going right I rushed to left. Milind was waited for couple of minutes , but could not reach him . Fear of crossing the road full of vehicles is not strength , may that's the reason i still cannot drive.
Mr. cool lost his cool and i got what i deserved to be a full :-) no details here , but he did say that if you act like that the vehicle would easily take you with it.
Controlling my fear , guilt of disappointing Milind ...I continued towards Bandra reclamation and we met Punitji and Deepa .
It was beautiful morning with sea in front and the sun turning everything gold.
Punitji. asked if we want to get our photos here , and i told him this is known spot to us in our good old days:-)
While coming back , i thought , i will not be able to take any bridge , but was able to make it with whatever energy that was left in me. Still decided to skip Malad bridge. Water was almost finished and we were looking for coconut water badly. Took a break in Thakur village for same and back to Siddharth Nagar.
This was great experience , i am glad that i am pushing myself , testing my limits , giving it a shot without thinking to much about the end result . I am loving it :-)
.jpeg)
.jpeg)
No comments:
Post a Comment