century rides and columbian sock sacrifices

montezuma's revenge!

Ahhh, dear reader.

I accomplished something special today.

I managed to get my underpants on after my post ride shower.

And I did this without falling down!

I KNOW

Incredible eh?

You see, falling down has been an issue for me today.

The problem?

I’ve been clipped into my pedals.

Normally I prefer flat shoes when I ride.

But with a drop bar bike, the trend seems to be special stiff soled shoes that clip in to the pedals.

There’s a rookie move that happens to clipped in riders when they’re tired - especially when they’re new to clippy clip shoes.

They come to a slow stop but fail to get their shoe to detach from their pedal.

Then?

They just fall over like a sleeping cow tipped by some naughty frat boys on a dare.

It’s the biggest noob / kook / rookie move out there.

And today?

Today was my day to fall like a drunk fucking toddler, asleep on his feet, directly onto my side.

100 miles, 160.9km

I’ve done this before.

I’ve even gone further.

So I started out the ride prepared and with a sense that this was po…