Bicycling to Work

After a couple weeks of no real exercise, I decided to wake up a little earlier than normal and ride my bike to work today. It's really not that far, only 2.2 miles according to Google maps, but for some reason it's just far enough that it's not "easy" to wake up and decide to ride on any particular morning without a small bit of planning. I haven't ridden my bicycle to work since around July and I'm not sure why, before then I had been riding 2-3 days a week for about 3 months.

It's always interesting to me how people in general (myself included), have a hard time staying in a routine with some things (like exercise), but routines like getting home and turning on the TV is one that never seems to get old. I suppose it's just the amount of effort needed to keep one's self in a routine.

With all that said, I forgot how much I really enjoy riding my bicycle to work, and I hope to start a "routine" once again.

*Note - if you ever want to start riding to work on a regular basis, I recommend getting some sort of rack and bags for your bicycle. I bought some Trek interchange panniers for mine, but I have a friend who bought one of the Topeak MTX expandable bags with side panniers, and he loves it. All you really need is something that you can use in place of a backpack (or you can just use a backpack and get your back all sweaty before work).

Happy Riding!