There are two several types of bicycle crashes: People who appear to come back out of nowhere (one second you’re fortunately driving alongside and the subsequent second you’re on the bottom)… and people you see coming from 1,000,000 miles away, however can’t forestall from occurring – even with the superior warning.
On my bike experience over to Nowa Huta I skilled one of many later bicycle crashes.
I used to be operating a little bit late for my assembly with Ola Pieczara and so I used to be dashing throughout a park bike path after I realized the pavement beneath me had become a slippery layer of ice and I used to be certainly happening. Time slowed for a second after which the inevitable occurred. The tires slid out from beneath me, my toes got here off the pedals, I went up over the handlebars and my bicycle landed on prime of me. I had fallen in a big puddle of freezing chilly water and my whole left aspect was soaked.
Even after recovering from the accident it took me a couple of embarrassing moments to slip off the slippery patch of ice and regain my composure.
A couple of minutes later I met Ola at our designated assembly level in Nowa Huta and we continued from there on our bicycles, with Ola stopping every so often to level out sure buildings, church buildings and locations the place she grew up, attended faculty, and so forth.
We stopped at a small outside market, the place Ola insisted I attempt one of many native meals – a chunk of deli-style bread lined in a thick layer of mushroom sauce, cheese and ketchup. I took three bites and will eat no extra. It was terrible and I felt dangerous throwing away Olas reward. I felt actually, actually dangerous.
Then we continued throughout city to a small park the place Ola stated she favored to hang around together with her pals within the summertime earlier than biking to her dad and mom’ home, the place I met Ola’s mom, father and youthful brother. They served me some carrot/apple juice and tea whereas asking about my travels by bike.
Then Ola and I rode a brief distance again by city collectively earlier than I continued on alone again to my condo within the heart of Krakow.
It’s wintertime in Poland, and even with that small crash on the ice, I’m shocked at simply how good it’s right here in late December.