Me (Six Months Ago): Babe, clipping in is really hard.
Chicken Face: It can’t be that hard. You just click in.
Me: No seriously. It’s scary because you have to toe in, then click your heel back, then it’s this mental thing that you are literally strapped to your bike and if something was to happen, you have to think fast enough to kick your heels out super fast to get out without toppling over.
Chicken Face: I bet you I could do it no problem.
Me: I don’t think so…
***SIX MONTHS LATER***
Enter Chicken Face with his feet crammed into my old cycling shoes getting out my old road bike.
Me: I don’t know babe. I think you’re going to realize just how hard it is the first time you do it.
Chicken Face: Nah.
Chicken Face proceeds to clip in, clip out and ride seamlessly. Multiple times.
Me: Uhhh…well…can you do this or this (insert cycling drills here).
Chicken Face continues to do all tasks not only better than expected, but better than me. On the first time.
Go figure.
Ha! I think I know the feeling you must have had. Kind of like when my husband beat my 10k PR a month after he took up running
Hi btw – been following your blog since Aron linked to it a few weeks back! (Love Aron’s blog and figured any friend of hers must be worth reading!) Sorry about your injury, hope it’s getting better…
Oh btw, please to explain the origin of the name “Chicken Face”?
@Heather, I have wanted to know this for so long but have been too scared to ask, ha! So glad you did!!
Figures!! But he doesn’t look nearly as cute on those wheels. Just sayin! haha
Awww, Page! Some people are just born with clipping and biking skills, I guess!
By the way, I would love to know the origin of “Chicken Face” as well!
Haha. I hate it when this happens. But it’s awesome that Chicken Face is a natural with clipping in and out.
I feel your pain. I train and train and train, hubby shows up with maybe a measly 6-mile run from two months ago under his belt and beats me, BIG time, for our first duathlon. It ain’t fair. Glad I’m not the only person feeling this way!
OMG. I hate boys sometimes… why are they SO good at everything!! #sonotfair
Hahaha if it makes you feel any better, I once took a spin class that had clipped in shoes, and I had to take my foot out of the shoe in order to unclip it. Faiiiiiil. Good thing I wasn’t on a real bike…
Bahahahaha. That’s like when you train for a race super hard and then your boyfriend goes out and crushes it w/o training. Stupid boys.
The big question is: HOW did he fit into your shoes???
Hahaha! Well…I actually have REALLY big feet. In fact, my cycling shoes are men’s shoes!
Lame! I had the hardest time with the clips, too. I’m jealous of anyone who didn’t fall over at least three times
Boys are dumb; throw rocks at them. Seriously.
My guy is the SAME way. 6’2 and a former athlete. Physical things that I really have to dig deep to accomplish are a cakewalk for him….EXCEPT RUNNING. I pray he never realizes that if he got off the treadmill and ran outside, he would be able to go much longer and faster than I can. Thankfully, I’m an entire cycle of half marathon training ahead of him or he would beat me at everything!