Human+Limits

Human Limits
I think there is only one time when I really pushed my body to the limit. It was a hot day, two summers ago. I live by the lake, and I took my bike out and walked it down to the gas station a few blocks away from my house to fill up the tires.

I started to ride down the street when I heard my tire pop. At the time, I didn’t know what the noise was, but after that I heard this weird dragging noise, and my bike was going pretty slow. I stopped at a different gas station that was about a mile away from my house. I filled my tires up again because they didn’t seem to be holding the air very well. I thought it was a problem with the cap.

Once I got going again, I noticed that the air was coming out, so I stopped at a gas station yet again and asked the man who worked there what he thought was wrong. He told me that I had a popped tire, and that if I rode on it my bike would probably be ruined.

So, my destination was Wilson Park, which was a couple miles from where I was, but I thought it wouldn’t be a problem. With no water to keep me hydrated, I walked my bike towards the park, and after a while, I finally got there.

I rested for a bit, but I couldn’t really find much to do there, so I turned back towards home. My bike had a flat tire, but I was really tired so I tried to ride it up a hill, which really didn’t work all that well. I think it was actually harder than walking would have been.

My bike was completely broken after a little bit, because the tires were ruined and the chain had come completely off, and I was dehydrated, but I had to get home. At that time, I didn’t have a cell phone, so I couldn’t call anyone to come pick me up, and I didn’t have money for a pay phone. Besides, I felt like it was something I had to do on my own.

Finally, I made it home with my broken bike. My legs were bleeding profusely from deep cuts that the pedals of my bike had made while I was walking it. I hurt all over. I must have walked about seven miles with fifty pounds of useless bike to haul in 100 degree weather.

Amazingly, that wasn’t even the worst day of my life(

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