Travel another way

Today we had some free time in the afternoon, so some of us decided to try the “rail-bike”. That sounded very easy and flat. It wasn’t really that easy! The six of us formed two teams and up we went on the rail bike.

Rima, Caryl and Jac took off very fast. Barb, Valerie and Karen were behind, trying to catch up. Karen had  great ways of motivating her pals: 1, 2, 3, 4 up and 1,2,3,4 down, or “mush, mush”!. And it paid off! They caught up with us.

We had to switch partners since only 2 of 3 people could pedal on the bike. I replaced Rima who rested and then replaced Caryl. But that wasn’t enough. Valerie, Barb and Karen were still tailing us. Halfway, we all had to stop, not only for a drink (no beer this time, we were too tired, so just water) but because the bike needed to be turned around on the rail so that we could bike back the way we came. On the way back, it was all downhill so very easy.

That was really fun but we felt it the next day, in our thighs. Oh well, it was way worse it.

And the winner team was…