Over the weekend, Dick and I decided to take J Lo out for some drinks. We picked the Wild Wings Cafe because it has a great outdoor patio/bar area overlooking a pond and the weather is just SPECTACULAR and perfect for chilling outside.
Parking is a bitch at this place (see all the cars wrapped around the pond) as it is quite popular so we decide to take our bikes.
Aside from parking, I do plan on having a couple of drinks and do not wish to get a DUI. From what I understand, one cannot get a DUI so long as you stay off the main road and on the sidewalk. This makes sense as I’m not a danger to anyone else….just myself.
BIKING TO WILD WINGS
Biking doesn’t phase J Lo as she has lived in Europe almost her whole life.
Yes, I realize that I’m wearing 4-inch heels to go biking. Dick questions my sanity but people in EUROPE bike all the time and look quite FASHIONABLE. By golly I’m going to make use of these shoes I bought!
SAVED BY THE HEEL
You may not think so but wearing heels while biking actually helps.
They’ve already saved me once whilst I was coming home from going to an IRISH PUB close to home. At the time, I was quite the NOVICE cycler and had trouble maneuvering around a corner. I went too far left, OVERCORRECTED too much to the right to compensate, went OVER the curb of the sidewalk and much to my HORROR, one of those concrete parking dividers as well!
As I’m going over the parking divider and feeling quite sure that it was going to get UGLY, I have one of those flashes, like the ones they talk about having right before you’re ready to die. Only, my flash was of me SURVIVING the crash after clearing the parking divider, being BLOODIED from the concrete and in pain from breaking a few BROKEN bones.
Luckily, it didn’t play out that way and I was saved by the 4-inch heels that I was sporting at the time!
HOW, YOU SAY?
I know it does not seem that wearing 4-INCH stilettos would assist you in life in any way other than to cause immense pain to your feet and make you walk funny. Beauty is sometimes is PAIN indeed.
You see, when you ride a bike, in order to maximize the range of your legs when you pedal, your seat should be raised to the point that when you sit on it, your feet are on their tippy toes when you’re not moving….makes it easier to pedal.
Now, once you sport some 4-inch heels, your feet are now MUCH CLOSER to the ground. Therefore, when I started to fall after overcorrecting the corner, my heels were right there to CATCH ME! PHEW and DOUBLE PHEW!
THESE SHOES WERE NOT MADE FOR WALKING
So you see, at least there is some use for these DEVILISHLY SEXY YET PAINFUL heels. No, they’re not made for walking…definitely NOT made for walking.
Dick makes fun of the way I walk when he sees me in these shoes. The arch is so high that I basically clunk around fat-footed. Add to that my limpy gimp from picking my feet…definitely NOT the SUPERMODEL SACHE!
These shoes are just made for looking HAWT…and biking. Yes, biking. Because when you bike, you only need the front pads of your feel. Who cares about the heel! It might as well be nonexistent!
WARNING: HEEL COULD GET CAUGHT IN PEDAL
There is however one thing I should WARN you about when wearing heels whilst biking. Depending on the thickness of your heel, there is a RISK that your heel could get stuck in the pedal.
I learned this the hard way as I was on the way to Wild Wings and I couldn’t get my foot out so that I could stop. The heel had jammed itself into one the slots of the pedal.
My first thought was that the metal is probably cutting into the leather of my shoes and ruining the heel!
My second thought was to panic because I’m wiggling my foot as much as I can to try to unjam the stilletto heel but it seems REALLY STUCK. Luckily, after much effort, I am FREE!
Since I spent so much time talking about the pros and cons of wearing heels while biking, the rest of our night will be continued on the next blog.
-Jane, Victim of Stuck Heel
06/02/2011 at 4:02 PM Permalink
Hi, Did heel injury? whether the pictures?