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…)
Yeah, I get to go away this weekend. I’m really looking forward to it.
I get to go away with a friend because my family all have some concert to go to and they can’t come so I get to go with a friend. Last time I took my family, but not this time.
We are going to take a tent and camp, as I would normally do with my familynormally. It’s a really good tent, about 10 foot square and canvas and really good quality so worth taking. Its heavy but I have a lighter tent that’s smaller but it’s forecast to rain and I want a good tent that will keep the rain out.
We leave Friday morning at about 6 am, early, grr. We’re meeting some other people at 9 and it will take about 3 hours to get to where we’re meeting. I don’t really like getting up early, good thing I don’t have to too often.
As much as I hate to get up early if you’re looking forward to something you just get up and go anyway, so it’s not so much of a problem.
Unfortunately my car is pretty old and I’ve got all my fingers and toes crossed hoping it makes it up there ok. It’s done 540,000 miles so it’ done a lot of work, but it goes fine.
Saturday is going to be a free day. Nothing planned at all, just a hang about day to do what you want. I plan to take fishing gear along and do some fishing, in fact I bought a new fishing rod this morning. Sadly I broke my old fishing rod a while ago.
My old broken rod was one I made a long long time ago. I bought the fiberglass blank and all the runners and made it all myself and I’ve used it and used it. I was pretty impressed with myself that I managed to make my own fishing rod.
I have no idea how it broke. I was just walking through a patch of trees and then suddenly I looked at it and the tip was broken off. What happened? Who knows. But it was a pretty sad day as I had used that rod so much.
I found out today that it wasn’t worth a lot of money. That’s because I went to a fishing shop and bought a new one and it wasn’t expensive. But it still had sentimental value to me, after all I made that rod myself.
And I couldn’t believe. 25 bucks for a new fishing rod. They certainly aren’t expensive now to buy. But the new one isn’t the one I made. I’d rather my old one than a new one. (more…)
It’s just the best day outside, I don’t think it ever gets any better than this. Now that’s my view.
I’ve decided that it’s a perfect day but maybe not everyone would agree. Maybe for some people it’s just a terrible day. Really bad. Maybe you’ve had some really bad news or something isn’t working out for you at all or maybe you’re sick, so it’s not the best day at all.
Now of course that’s my interpretation. For many people today might be a terrible day. Perhaps youve just had some bad news for example, or just feel bad. Maybe youre trying to do something that isn’t working out. Maybe you just don’t feel well, really. For whatever reason you mightn’t agree with me.
What is it that makes it a great day for me but is really not the best day for someone else? Why is it that I see the sunshine and the cows in the fields and the happy people? Why is it that you may not see these?
Maybe you see terrible things in the day, all bad, darkness. The best day for me is the worst day for you.
Surely the only explanation is that it’s in our minds, the day. We see the day through the filter of our minds. We don’t see the day, we see what our minds tell us the day is like. We filter the day through our minds and our experiences.
Even if we have the exact same day you see it differently to me. Lets say we both go for that drive together. We both see the happy people, we both see the sunshine, we both see the cows, but we still have a different experience of the day. Because our minds filter what we see through the experiences of the past. Perhaps you don’t even see the cows and the sunshine
There’s some of my silly rantings. I was just thinking about this stuff today, that’s all.
Just a few thoughts for the day. Bye.
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