Ridiculous.
Originally uploaded by pinkzilla
Two years ago ... no wait. Three. Oh man. Three years ago I wore sunscreen every day. I also biked around the Minneapolis/St. Paul region about 3x as much as I bike nowadays. On my way to my serving jobs selling locally farmed wonder foods that I still can taste, or after - I would rack up 20, 30 miles in a day without blinking.
I miss this tan. It was so satisfying to look at. To know it meant time spent under the sun and going places.
This memorial day weekend the beaches of Lake Michigan are opening up to throngs of pasty Midwesterners... myself included. I'm biking 20 (40 if we're motivated) miles each way to get to one that doesn't have Wrigley Field in a 10 mile radius of it. What once would have been a day in the life of a Kim has become a destination day.
Living in the larger cities is hard when everyone else has the same idea as you. Get hot and bothered doing something active and jumping into a lake seems to be on everyone's minds this weekend. This was much easier in Minnesota. The lakes were warm and there were multitudes of them. You could bike in any direction and come upon a beach within 10-15 miles. Now it seems our choices are either north or south and nothing in between.
Either way, I'm excited. I scored some gluten free bread from a secret supplier and I'm going to make sandwiches. I'm going to put them in my jersey. I'm going to bike to the beach and I'm going to make the most of this heat. If I want that tan line to come back by August 9th for its three year anniversary, I better get cracking.
Wishing you safe skin practices and silly goal setting...
Love love love,
K.
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