What do you do to keep fit? You really need to keep fit. Especially as you get older like I am. I’m 45 now.
I started to notice that I’m getting a little fat over the last few years, so I had to find something that I could do to keep fit. It was cycling for me.
I reall love cycling, I just love it.
I found cycling recently. I was getting pretty unfit and I didn’t want to be unfit, and I was getting older. I knew I had to do something to make a change in my life.
I tried to do some swimming. Can you believe how boring swimming is? Up and down a pool hour after hour. Well actually it was probably never longer than 30 minutes but it felt like hour after hour to me and I hated it.
Underneath you there’s a line and you just watch that line, there’s nothing else to do other than swim. It’s really boring and I just couldn’t keep at it for long.
So after trying swimming I knew that wouldn’t work for me. I knew I couldn’t spend 4 days a week putting some swimming into my day. Because if youre going to keep fit you’ve got to do it for at least 4 or 5 days a week or you’re really just wasting your time.
And you’ve got to do about a half hour minumum. Less than that and its a bit of a waste of time unfortunately.
So once I decided I didn’t like swimming I really had to find something else to do. And like swimming I found running pretty boring too so that was out. What was I to do? Then I thought about cycling.
But I had a problem. I didn’t have a bike. So I wasn’t going to be cycling too far with no bike to do it on. Well actually I did have a bike but it’s really old and all rusted, so no use at all. So I had to get hold of a bike and and they aren’t cheap to buy a new bike.
So I went and talked to some of the people in the cycling club and found out that there was a new cycling group starting up and that I could join it. So I figured that it was time to just go out there and buy a new bike.
So I joined the group and got cycling. I loved it. They did long rides and short rides and I did them all, one by one. But after while I started to get a little frustrated with the pace of the riding, it being too slow to me.
Now Im not young, 45 actually, but even so I wanted to go a little faster. The ride was more social than a workout and I wanted a workout as well as a social ride. Eventually I dropped out to ride on my own because I wanted to ride a little harder to get a real workout at the same time.
The club also had another riding group that went out Sundays and it had much better riders in it, and so I decided that I would try and join the Sunday ride, but was worried that I would never keep up with those better riders.
But the bike that I had already bought was a half mountain bike and half road bike, it was 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 loved riding so I bought a road bike and joined the Sunday group. They ride very fast and sometimes I keep up, occasionally I don’t keep up with them.
But of course its a hard workout, exactly what I needed.
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