You Just Have To Keep Fit. How Do I Do It?

Ξ March 30th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ The World Of Tom |

Everyone has to keep fit. Everyone needs to keep from getting fat don’t they? I ride bikes. I”m a cyclist.

I came to cycling a while ago. Well no not that long ago actually, considering that Im not young. I knew I had to do something to keep fit. I was getting fat.

Swimming never did it for me. I mean swimming is boring, incredibly boring. You just swim up and down, up and down. For hours and hours, or at least for a while. Actually it only feels like hours and hours, I rarely swim for more than about 20 minutes, that’s about as long as I can stand the boredom.

There’s a black line and you just spend your time watching that black line, because of course there’s nothing else to watch other than that black line. Now that’s what I call boring. I hate that long black line.

So trying swimming was for me a flop. It never worked for me. And to get fit you really need to do it at least 4 times a week if not 5 times a week and if you’re bored and every minute feels like an hour I just can’t do it.

And you’ve got to do about a half hour minimum. 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. I also didn’t like running at all, so that was out. But one day I thought about cycling.

But I had a problem. No bike. Well I did have a bike but it was outside the shed in the junk pile and all rusted. It was way too old. So somehow I had to get a bike and it isn’t cheap to buy a good bike.

But I found out that there was a cycling club near me and they were starting up a new cycling group. The ideal time to buy a bike and take up cycling.

And right from the start once I joined the new cycling group I enjoyed the cycling. They varied their rides and did longer and shorter ones. But I did find that the pace of riding was not right for me. A bit too slow.

I’m not exactly young but despite that I really felt that I could ride harder than the recreational group did, that it was a good social situation but I wanted to get fit and do a workout and it was too slow for my liking. So I started riding on my own to get a faster ride in and workout more. I really did need to go faster.

So after a while riding on my own I found that it was nice to ride hard but a little lonely. I was getting a workout but on my own. So I made some enquiries and found out that there was a riding 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.

But the bike that I had already bought was a half mountain bike and half road bike,   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 liked riding to I bought a road bike and joined the Sunday group. They ride pretty fast and sometimes I keep up, occasionally I don’t keep up. I work hard.

But unlike the recreational group the Sunday ride gives me a hard workout and that’s what I wanted, I’m not complaining. I need to keep fit. (more…)

 

I Live In The Country. Where Do You Choose To Live? Why?

Ξ March 11th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ The World Of Tom |

I’m lucky enough to live in the country and I just love living in the country. I’ve lived out here for a few  years now, more than I care to remember actually. And I grew up in the city but I wouldn’t really want to go back there any more. What’s your poison?

There’s just so much to living in the country that you just can’t find living in the city. One example for you to think about. I love cycling and do it lots out here in the country. It helps keep me fit and that’s important and I definitely need to keep fit. And it gets me into some beautiful outdoors locations. Really beautiful

I ride past so many wonderful things, so many sights. I love to see cows in the fields and I see sheep and other animals as well. I even have my own cows and they give me calves which is great too.

It’s just one of the best things of living here, I get to keep cows and calves. I love that and all of the nature around me. Nature lives in the country.

Its summer right now and its really hot. We’ve had some very hot days lately. Now of course if I lived in the city it would still be hot. But here I see the cycle of the seasons so well. I feel more at one with the seasons and with nature now.

I see the grass wilt and die when summer comes, I see the grass regrow and get green again for winter. It see snow, I see drought, I see rain. I see nature.

There’s so many wonderful colors that I get to see in the leaves, then they all fall off and make compost around the base of the tree so that new baby trees can grow from the seeds they grow. I get to see the whole cycle of nature out here. Nature grows and I see it.

All of these things cycle. They go round and round and I really see what the seasons are. Seasons are important.

Maybe if I lived in the city I’d have a garden, maybe no garden. And I might not even have a tree. Maybe all I’d have is some concrete in my back yard and no more, except a BBQ perhaps. I do like BBQs.

Apart from the temperature I mightnt even know what season it is. I mightn’t see nature, just concrete.

It’s sterile in the city and I spent a large part of my life there so I’ve been there. Of course it’s just me that thinks it’s sterile, others don’t. What do you think?

Even the rest of my own family live there sadly. My brother loves it and he’s single so I suppose he needs more social life than me, and there’s probably more social life in the city. But I don’t like it.

I grew up in the city and spent most of my life in the city. Then it was fine but it really feels now as if I wasted a lot of time in the city, I wish I’d been born in the country instead.

I feel a little like I wasted a lot of my life in the city, that’s sad isn’t it? I didn’t really waste it of course but it feels that way now. I should ask my brother if he’d like to live here but I doubt he would. He likes the city. (more…)