View From the Bushes

Every year I convince myself that this will be the year when I'll really get out and ride my bike, rack up a thousand miles, do a couple of centuries, keep up with the 67 year old CEO... But then every year I get too busy, other stuff seems more important and this is all on top of my exceptional amount of sloth. So once again the cycling season is well under way and I have yet to touch ass to saddle. My current goal is to bike to work on Friday. I'm reasonably optimistic that I'll be able to do that -- it's the second and the third and the tenth, etc. rides that I always have a problem with.

There is a part of me which would like to be one of those people who bikes to work every day. The problem is that the additional commute time combined with the costume change probably adds 45 minutes. In exchange, I get an hour of exercise every day, so certainly it's better than driving to work and then doing cardio afterwards, but since I'm not doing any exercise, it's not saving me much time. I think if I was in really good shape and really got the costume change down I could reduce it to 30 extra minutes, and at that point I'd almost be crazy not to bike to work every day. Of course none of this takes the weather into account...

Moving on, all instant messaging programs allow you to set your status. Some only allow you to choose from a menu of options, like 'away' or 'out to lunch,' but most will allow you to put whatever you want. For example, 'buried by work' or '185 lbs of jungle love' or 'cornered by boss.' Recently I've tried to come up with a new clever status each day for IM, and I thought I would use it here as well. By this time I think everyone has my usual Latin sign-off memorized so the time is right for a change.

Inching Towards Exercise
Ross