Cycle Recyle

The weather today was too good to pass up. Matter of fact, the last two days have been exceptional. I biked to work yesterday and then downtown tonight for Cycle Recycle and the high-spirited antics of that motley crew of bike mechanics at GetAbout. I fixed one and half bikes tonight. It only took two hours but hey! it's free labor people! I was harassed a bit by some dude who thinks he knows everything about bikes, but I'm not that easily fooled T.K.

Riding home tonight was phenomenal. The wind and weather were perfect---I am always so amazed at all the sensations we experience on a bike that we have no access to in a car. So many details that we whiz right past. The breeze and wonderful smells of fresh grass, flowers, and trees. The sounds of nature at night. Awesome.

Ride on bike lovers!

Miles: 6

American Idle

When Mary Collins had a bike accident that laid her up, she got interested in the sedentary nature of U.S. culture and started researching and writing about it. This book is the fruit of her labor. She argues that in 99 percent of human history, humans have lived as "a species on the move", but with modern inventions and life has we have literally be "stopped us in our tracks".

I have become convinced that humans need quite a bit of physical exercise in a day and the amount of time we spend sitting in front of screens each day is vastly contributing to our mounting health crisis---which has led Dr. John McDougall to state that we are at a point in our history in the U.S. that we are so obese and out of shape that we could not defend ourselves from an invading nation!

Another reason to GET IN THE SADDLE! :-D