Healthful exercise

[louiselux]

I haven't been cycling on the exercise bike so much recently due to my motivation failing, but I have been going out on my actual bike that rolls along every weekend for the past month or so. My tally for the last four weeks:

Unreal bike - 8 miles
Real bike - 16.5 miles - to Cane End, Dead Man's Lane then back along the Warren to Reading
Real bike - 11 miles - to Crowsley park and back
Real bike - 15.5 miles - to Dinton Pastures along the river to Sonning and back again

Grand total: 179.5

I've passed Bree and am now camping on the western edge of the Midgewater Marshes

Comments

[avierra.livejournal.com]

I find exercycles to be hard to use as well, they are pretty boring (and boring for me means I totally stop doing it because of lack of motivation). With the real bike you have the opportunity to take in the landscape, see the sights, enjoy the fresh air, maybe even interact with people. It's just inherently a more engrossing experience. And 179 miles is nothing to sneer at, congrats!

I do like the Lord of the Rings mileage as a gauge of progress, that is such a fun idea.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm quite pleased with myself about that!

The exercise bike is just too boring unless I am watching something on DVD. Buffy and Angel seem to work very well as distraction methods.