I changed jobs a couple months ago to a team full of extremely technical, extremely introverted electrical engineers. These are the sort of people who can figure out how to design circuits smaller than a gnat's buttcrack but cannot comprehend questions such as, "what would you like for lunch?" or "did you watch the Cardinals' game?" My boss seems like a very nice person and is about my age, but I have no idea if he likes sports, has a family, eats Chinese food, reads books, etc...we only talk about work.
This brings me to my topic. I was surprised to over hear my boss talk about mountain biking. I poked my nosy head in and mentioned that I had a mountain bike (a pretty awesome one - Specialized Stumpjumper FSR) but I need lots of practice on it. Well, as it turns out, he's got some sort of high dollar custom made wonder-bike and each weekend, he and a couple other managers from our organization get together and ride an extremely difficult trail in our area. I have been invited to join them.
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| My awesome bike...which surpasses my abilities |
My quandary: I'd like to join as I think it would be a good chance to build team camaraderie, but my worry is that I will suck sh*t as a team bicyclist or have a spectacular accident for them to talk about. Even worse, I fear that I will see these guys in their nuthuggers/bicycling shorts and that image will pop into my head each time I run into them in the hallway. (note: my bike shorts have the padding but hide my shame under normal looking shorts).
My strategy: get out and practice on the local, easier trail a couple times a week, with the goal of biking with the group in October when the weather is a little cooler. I will use the heat as an excuse.
Have you had to do a sport or some physical activity to bond with co-workers? What did you do? How did you prepare? (and what were the results?)
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