Lately, I've been having trouble sleeping, so I have been spending some late nights online (and NOT in a creepy way....).  One night during a random bout of insomnia, I stumbled upon Bicycling Magazine's website.  They host a cool program/promotion/event called BikeTown, where they select 6 towns each year to give away bikes.  They highlight the town in their fall edition and talk about how the bikes made a difference in some of the receipient's lives.  This year, Boston was selected and to become a recepient, you have to enter an essay contest.  I figured, heck, why not, I'm up anyway, I can enter an essay contest.

Fast forward one month, and I had completely forgotten about that essay that I wrote.  Well, I get an email from Bicycling Magazine yesterday, telling me that my essay was selected and that I won a bike!!  Yippee!!  I will be receiving a Trek Lime, which is a cruiser bike with the female specific dropped top-tube, coaster brakes, automatic shifting, and a saddle with storage space.  I am so excited!  I have always wanted to own a cruiser-type city bike, to take to the store, out to dinner, etc.  As much as I love my regular road bike, it is such a pain to have to be dressed appropriately, wearing bike shoes, carrying a back-pack, when I just want to go to the store.  Now, I can slap a basket on my bike and off I go! 

I will be attending the BikeTown ceremony this Saturday to pick up my bike. I'll let you all know how it goes!