I started my motorcycle safety course last night. The class runs for two weeks. On Monday nights, there is a classroom class from 6-8:45 and on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the class is taught on motorcycles, from 6-8:30. Last night’s class wasn’t particularly illuminating–I think this is because I’ve been reading about motorcycle safety ever since Brian started riding a few years ago. This is not a bad thing, though. And since I’ve been riding since last month, this evening’s course was a little slow (the course assumes you’ve never ridden a motorcycle before). By the end of the evening, we did make it into 2nd gear, though. Once tonight’s class was over, I realized I was exhausted–it makes me glad I didn’t sign up for the weekend riding course. While there are only 2 riding classes for that, they are 5 hours a piece!
Anyway, there are definitely some things I need to keep in mind while I’m riding so that I don’t develop any bad habits. The riding portion of the class will help me with that. I’m looking forward to having an evening off tomorrow, if only to rest. I even took a half day off work today so that I wouldn’t get stressed out about my lack of “evening time” this week. I guess I should have spent some of those hours taking a nap.