Why bike?
Because biking is so much fun!
Well, yeah, you can lose weight.
I've had to diet my whole life - avoiding pizza, sweets and anything that tasted good just in order to keep the pounds off.
(granted I only eat a Jacks if I'm biking 100 miles that day).
But, honestly, I've thrown away the scales.
Biking is the best way I've found to stay slim.
And biking is great for your heart!
When I had a fitness test at the YMCA and they saw my heart results the trainer asked - are you a biker?
Because the only other person he'd seen with a cardiac response like mine was a long distance biker.
When I got knee pain after hiking, I asked my orthopedic surgeon, what should I do?
He said keep biking.
Biking is great for the heart and easy on the joints.
He also said if I wanted to bike across America, do it now rather than later.
I always follow my doctor's advice.
That dull gray haze that sits on the horizon and chokes kids with asthma?
Get out of the car and ride your bike.
Keep the air clean for everyone.
How about the oil spill in the Gulf and all the bad guys we pay good American money to buy oil from?
Ride your bike more and we won't need all that oil.
But toss all those benefits aside, the very best reason I have found to ride a bicycle is the pure joy of it.
Spinning down a hill gathering speed to coast up the next one.
Hearing the birds sing in the morning as I pedal along Jeffery Street.
Waving to the neighbors on the bike ride home in the evening.
"What's the perfect exercise?" the specialist asked the audience.
Walking!
Biking!
Swimming!
Sex!
"It's any and all of those," he replied..
"It's whatever exercise you enjoy doing."
I've found my perfect exercise....
4 comments:
i could bike 250 miles in a day =P lol biking isn't my exercise and Kitty's exercise is chasing down baby birds and bunnies! hehe
Bad kitty!
One of my favorite aspects of biking to work is simply time to be in my own head. Between classes full of teenagers and a house full of school age and pre-school age chaos I find I have precious little time just to be alone with my thoughts. My first day back to work after Dad's services I biked in largely just to have that time.
BTW day is a full supported effort here in SD. I got a free BTW T-shirt at the zoo and a free SS Zoo water bottle! They had animal handlers out, tables full of fresh fruit and granola bars, pictures from past years and on top of that mass transit is free for the day for anyone with a bike to facilitate folks coming in from around the county. A great event!
CRS
my best thinking is on a bike, too.
And my Bike To Work day is all self supported.
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