How Do You Keep Fit? How Do I Keep Fit?
I know I have to keep fit. I’m not as young as I used to be and so as I get older I just know I have to do something to keep fit. For me it’s riding a bike.
I love to ride, I really do, I just love it.
It wasn’t that long ago that I found cycling and I’m glad I did. I’m not that young and I had to do something serious to keep fit, I wasn’t the fittest person in the world actually.
Swimming never did it for me. I mean swimming is boring, really really boring. You just swim up and down, up and down, up and down. For hours and hours and hours. Actually it only feels like hours and hours, I rarely swim for more than about 30 minutes, that’s about as long as I can stand the boredom.
Underneath you there’s this black line and you just watch that black 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 trying swimming was a flop for me. It never worked at all. And to get fit you really need to do it at least 4 or 5 times a week if not 6 times a week and if you’re bored and every minute feels like an hour I just can’t do it at all.
And you’ve got to do about a half hour at least. Less than that and its a bit of a waste of time.
So once I knew that I hated swimming I had to find something else to do to keep fit. I also didn’t like running, so that was out. But one day I thought about cycling.
Teh first 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 really very old and all rusted, so no use. So I had to get hold of a bike and and they aren’t cheap to buy.
There’s a cycling club nearby me so I went and talked to them and found out that they were starting a new group of riders and so I figured that the universe was telling me that it was time to buy a new bike, that it was the perfect opportunity for me.
And right from the start once I joined the new cycling group I enjoyed riding. They varied their rides and did longer and shorter ones as well. But I did find that the pace of riding was not right for me, a bit too slow.
I’m not as young as I would like but even so I would have preferred that they rode a little bit faster, it was too slow for me and so I began riding on my own to try and get a better workout for fitness.
So after a while riding on my own I found that it was nice to ride really hard but a little lonely. I was getting a decent workout but on my own. So I made some enquiries and found out that there was a 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.
Problem was I didn’t have the right bike for it. I had a hybrid bike and these guys rode hard, on road bikes, and they told me that there was no way I could keep up on a hybrid. So I bit the bullet and bought a good reliable road bike, and now I ride with them. Its really great. A hard ride and I have to work very hard to keep up with them. Some of those guys are pretty good riders. Sometimes like this morning I get dropped and can’t keep up as I would like.
But unlike the recreational group the Sunday riding gives me a hard workout and that’s what I wanted, I’m not complaining.
Unlike the swimming, which I hated, I enjoy it and I’m getting fitter.
That’s fine by me.
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