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cycling rest interval
I am by no means a cyclist. The only etiquette/rules I know are how to signal, alert others in the path, ride with traffic and obey road rules. Recently the only riding I've done is at the playground next-door, but today I decided to ride to another park and ended up going about 5 miles (just checked out my route on google maps haha).
In the last mile or so the exhaustion hit me. It was a bit humid and I hadn't brought water because I thought it would be a smooth ride (mistake, I know). I started to feel a bit dizzy so I laid down and put my feet up on a tree to get the blood flowing back to my head.
A cop drove by, I got back on my bike, and he U-turned and pulled up next to me to if I was ok and I said, "Yeah, I'm fine thanks--just taking a break," and he said. "You shouldn't lay on the side of the road or people might call the cops." I don't think anyone had called him because I wasn't there for long; I think he just happened to drive by. Also, to clarify, I was on the lawn of a housing complex (there weren't any benches around).
It's nice that he was checking up on me, but was it necessary or was he just bored? If I were still laying down then I'd be glad someone was concerned (there are too many stories when people need help and everyone passes by because they assume the situation is under control) but I didn't think I resembled roadkill... Should I have done something different?
I'm probably being ridiculous but I'm just curious how others perceive the situation!
The obvious lesson is that I shouldn't over-exert myself and stay hydrated. Should probably plan my route and be familiar with the paths too, but that's no fun... haha
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Re: cycling rest interval
Yeah, sounds like a bored cop to me. If you've got your bike there and your feet up on a tree, it seems kind of obvious that you're not dead. Maybe if your bike was laying on the ground it would look like you got hit by a car or something, but even then its a stretch.