[Posted by Bae-Won Koh - August 27, 2010]

Oh, I didn't say how far it is from home to the office. It is only 7.5 miles. With a car it takes about 15 minutes without traffic. With the bus that I take, it takes 20 minutes stop-to-stop and 45 minutes door-to-door since I have to be at the stop 5 minutes before bus schedule and walk 15 minutes from the bus stop to the office. It was Saturday June 6th. I practiced biking from home to the office and back to home – a bit safer on the road since it was Saturday. Well, surprisingly my thighs were ok but another place of my body was not – if you are a bicyclist you know what I mean. Man, it was burning. I couldn't sit on a couch.

I was not listening when my colleague told me, "Bae-Won, are you going to buy a pair of bike pants?" "No, why do I need them? I have good shorts." "I bet you will need them." After sleeping the night, my thighs were like not moving well. But I knew that I had to keep it going to build the strength. So I decided to go out to a store, of course riding a bike, to buy something to protect my "burning" body part. Honestly I don't like the cyclist's look – with spandex pants and shirts. Don't sermon to me whatever the functions of those are. I just don't like the look. So I decided to buy a cushion seat filled with gel. Hah! It was heaven compared to what I had. Anyway my first round trip to the office was successful. Hey, I did it!