The Problem With Running

The problem with running is that it's nowhere near as fun as riding my bike.

The weather got warmer. Daylight Saving's Time added an hour of light to the end of my days. I stopped going to the gym and started riding my bike instead.

All thoughts of attempting to run a 5K have fled from my mind. They may come back eventually. It won't be too long before the weather warms up enough that I won't want to be outside anymore. At that point it will be back to the gym and probably back to running. But for now I'm enjoying getting out and exploring the neighborhood.

I've been having a lot of fun getting lost on the windy streets. I never quite know where I'm going to end up, although I'm sure that I'll know my way around soon enough. I like all the hills in Virginia. It takes a lot of work to get up them, but zooming back down is the closest to flying I'll probably ever come.

Since riding my bike is so fun, I've actually been getting out every day. I'm exercising more, but I still have more free time since I'm not spending twenty minutes getting to the gym and another twenty getting home. I can also run small errands on my bike, since Safeway and various other shops are only less than two miles away.

All of this has made me deeply nostalgic for Boulder. When I lived there I did almost everything on my bike. I got to work, went to the bank, went shopping. I could do this for most of the year, too, since summer never got too hot. It may have started snowing early in the year and continued well in to Spring, but there were still plenty of nice days when I could get out for a ride.

In Virginia I know I'll be lucky if I can still ride my bike in June. Especially with the way the weather has been shaping up this year. It's barely Spring and it already feels like what I expect from Summer. I'll just have to make the most of the weeks I do have.