Earlier this week, I practiced for a bit on my 36-er, practicing both assisted mounts and riding around, as it’d been a while since I’d ridden it.

[2020/05/21]

The process of learning to unicycle can be split into several milestone moments, moments when you realize you’ve leveled up. These moments also give you an opportunity to evaluate your own progress, and help to plan the future course. During my own journey, I identified these steps

Did some more unicycling in the last couple of days. In a first, I tried unicycling on grass and gravel, and the transition was interesting. Riding on the gravel, I could feel the tire interacting with every pebble and stick that I rolled on. The tire also grips so much more, due to it sinking a bit more into soft gravel, when compared to unyielding concrete, so I found myself being hyper-aware of the contours on the surface, and also how the unicycle responded to each one of my inputs. The whole session was very satisfying, and made me want to try and learn something new, like idling on a unicycle.

The weekend was quite warm, with temperatures staying above freezing for the most part. Most of the snow had melted away, and most of the water too had evaporated, leaving clean asphalt. I’d been thinking of going out to do some unicycling for a couple of weeks now, but the weather conditions hadn’t been favorable; this weekend though was looking just perfect.