If You Ride Then You’ve Got The Perfect Sport
Ξ March 30th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ About The Life Of Ray Bull, A Great Guy |
I love cycling, I really do, I just love it.
I found cycling relatively recently. I was getting unfit and I didn’t want to be unfit, and I was getting older. I knew I had to do something.
I tried swimming but it just never worked, I never took to it. I just found it really boring and it was a real effort to get up in the morning and go swimming. You just go up and down and down and up and up and down and a minute feels like an hour.
There’s that black line underneath you. You just go up and down the black line. Its mezmerising. Its meaningless, its so boring. I cant believe how boring it really is.
So after trying swimming I knew that wouldn’t work. I knew I couldn’t spend 4 or 5 days a week putting some swimming into my day. Because if you’re going really to keep fit you’ve got to do it about 4 or 5 days a week or you’re really just wasting your time.
And so you’ve got to do about a half hour minumim. Less than that and its a bit of a waste of time.
So I was in a bit of a bind. I used to jog and found that as boring as swimming and so I was a little stuck. But then I started to think about cycling.
I didn’t have a bike although I used to ride to work many years ago. My old bike was up at the shed but its so rusted that its unusable. I knew I had to get another bike. And a new bike isn’t cheap.
There’s a cycling club near me so I went and talked to them and found out that they were starting a new group of recreational riders and so I figured that the universe was telling me that it was time to buy a bike, that it was the perfect opportunity.
I found the pace of riding wasn’t exactly right for me, but enjoyed the rides. They did longer and shorter rides and I enjoyed it.
I’m not as young as I would like to be but even so I would have preferred that they rode a little faster, it was a bit too slow for me and so I began riding on my own to try and get a better workout.
So after a while riding on my own I found that it was nice to ride hard but a little lonely. I was getting a workout but on my own. So I made some enquiries and found out that there was a riding group that rode out of town a few days a week that used road bikes and rode hard. It went on sundays and I decided to go along.
But the bike that I had already bought was a half mountain bike and half road bike, called a hybrid, and so I had the wrong bike again. So again I had an issue with no bike that would do the job, but by then I knew I really liked riding to I bought a road bike and joined the Sunday group. They ride pretty fast and sometimes I keep up, occasionally I don’t keep up.
But what I wanted was a hard workout and that’s what I get on the Sunday ride. (more…)