Staying in my lane
This isn’t just something someone says about others who micromanage or who are bossy, we cyclists say it about trying to stay alive. While at the hiker/biker campsite at Sunset Bay St. Park I chatted with some hikers doing the Oregon Coast Trail. The woman said that at one point she was walking through a tunnel. These are tunnels shared with motorists. Supposedly if a button is pushed they have to slow down for walkers/bikers—except she related a story of how when walking through she’d made it almost to the end when a logging truck whizzed through with barely enough room for her and all its axles etc. Her husband was taking a video and we watched her face crumple in terror. By that point it was funny—sort of. They talked about hyper vigilance, focusing on only what is ahead and immediately around you. Cyclists call it staying in your lane or taking a lane. I’ve taken up a whole lane when going down hill as I’m not going to be hurtling down a mountain pushed off to the side. ...