Pregnant Chic

My sister snapped this photo as we were biking around Golden Gate Park when I was about 7 months pregnant. Sometimes your best asset is the person in your uterus (as opposed to the person on your arm as the saying usually goes).

But seriously, one of my personal campaigns to promote bicycling as a mainstream form of transportation is to help people to understand that it can be safe for our more vulnerable populations (children, pregnant women, etc.) if we just have the infrastructure in place and drivers learn how to share the road. To do that, I am "acting as if" it is -- since it is for a seasoned cyclist like myself. Someone has to set an example!

I stopped biking a few weeks after this photo was taken mostly because I got tired of my knees hitting my belly when I peddled. I'm hoping to get back to it, sans baby (who can't ride until her neck is strong enough to hold up a helmet -- about 1 year), next week when I am no longer "disabled" per gov't policy for women who have had a normal delivery.