Yannis-Le velo (Cycling)
Bonjour a tous,
Good morning all.
Today,
I'm going to tell you about a sport that I practiced for a long time when I was
young: cycling.
Dans ma
jeunesse, j'ai fait du velo dans un club. Mon beau-pere m'a propose ce sport
parce que je ne faisais aucune activite sportive. Je l'avais deja vu en faire
auparavant donc j'ai voulu essayer par curiosite.
In
my youth, I cycled in a club. My stepfather recommended cycling to me because I
didn't do any sporting activity. I had already seen him do it so I wanted to
try it out of curiosity.
My first day at the club was pretty tough. I didn't know anyone and everyone was going very fast, too fast for me. But I quickly got used to it, I started to make friends and improved my speed a little bit every day. I even got my own road bike a few years later at Christmas.
En
general, en hiver on faisait du "velo tout terrain" ou VTT et en ete
on prenait un velo de route pour decouvrir du paysage. L'hiver etait dur a
cause du froid, parfois on montait des escaliers avec le velo et donc il
fallait le porter.
In
general, in winter we rode off-road bikes or mountain bikes and in summer we
took a road bike to explore the countryside. The winter was hard because of the
cold, sometimes we climbed stairs with the bike and therefore we had to carry
it.
The
summer was much better, we had a nice feeling of speed, but we had to be
careful of the wind. It pushed us against the cars and kept us from moving
forward. Better a rainy day than a windy day when riding a bicycle.
And
of course like everywhere, we had a star in our club, he was fast and won all
the races. In the end, I rode a bicycle for about seven years. One day I broke
my left arm when I fell on the road so I stopped and never started again.
A
sad end for a sport that had been part of my life for quite a long time...
jeunesse :
youth
beau-pere
: step-father
auparavant
: before
curiosite
: curiosity
sensation
: feeling
vitesse :
speed
escaliers
: stairs
courses :
race
triste :
sad