After quite a bit of a hiatus, I spent some time on my unicycles again. I spent about half an hour, trying to free-mount and ride out on the 36-er; the anxiety of the big wheel is definitely history now. I’m now able to confidently hop onto the wheel, but I’m still unable to mount and get the huge wheel to overcome inertia and move ahead. I’ve done this in the past, but by dumb luck, and I need to be able to do it again now, but as a part of an easily reproducible chain of actions. I’m getting there, but it didn’t happen today. After a while, I switched the small wheel and for the first few minutes, I was struggling with it, with the opposite problem: the small wheel gets into motion too easily! Since I’d been laboring to get the big wheel moving, my actions caused the small wheel to just escape from under me! After a few moments though, I got it under control and was able to enjoy the next thirty minutes or so riding and even climbing a few grades. I wrapped by by going down the same grade, and it was nice to note my now increased control and the ease with which I balance and turn. Riding a unicycle is something I’m definitely on my way to internalizing, and it feels great.