Another 1000 miles

[ausalex]

Hello all

Been lurking here for a long time so feel with my milestone it's time to say hello.

Started riding my 20 year old mountain bike to work 2.5 miles away 28th April. Have been well and truly bitten by the bug since then. Proved to myself (and the wife) I could do it and sustain it so I treated myself to a Trek 7.3fx for my birthday at the end of July and have not looked back since. Clocked up the magic 1000 on the way to work yesterday morning and it's great. People at work were stunned when I started doing it at just 2.5 miles, they were even more stunned when I told them about 1000 miles.

I love it, I'm fitter, I'm 16 stone 5 down from 17 9 when I started and I really look forward to riding to work every morning.

Alex

 

[4F]

Well done Alex

 

[ComedyPilot]

Well done Fella, welcome on board.

 

[gbb]

Hello all

Been lurking here for a long time so feel with my milestone it's time to say hello.

Started riding my 20 year old mountain bike to work 2.5 miles away 28th April. Have been well and truly bitten by the bug since then. Proved to myself (and the wife) I could do it and sustain it so I treated myself to a Trek 7.3fx for my birthday at the end of July and have not looked back since. Clocked up the magic 1000 on the way to work yesterday morning and it's great. People at work were stunned when I started doing it at just 2.5 miles, they were even more stunned when I told them about 1000 miles.

I love it, I'm fitter, I'm 16 stone 5 down from 17 9 when I started and I really look forward to riding to work every morning.

Alex

Nice one alex..
The stunned attitude is universal i think. I was talking to a visiter at work who turned out to be a budding cycle enthusiast. He said the same...some people just dont get it. They just cannot comprehend what drives us to actually cycle when you can walk, drive or catch the bus. Their loss...

 

[marooncat]

Well done - I know how pleased you must be feeling

 

[HLaB]

Well done Alex, its much more than most non cyclists can imagine, 'you can cycle how many miles ?'

 

[Keith Oates]

Nice one Alex, keep at it through the winter and then you'll know that you are well and truly hooked and believe me it's a nice feeling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mickle]

Wickedest! Welcome to the club Alex. You raise a very interesting and rather depressing point. It's shocking that people think 2.5 miles is such an enormous challenge. I work for a company which promotes cycling through various and assorted programmes and events. Our 'bread and butter' is Public Bike Try-Out Roadshows, essentially a vans worth of assorted bikes within a set of barriers. People will happily ride around in circles for hours. Literally, hours if we let them. If we limit the sessions to 30 minutes to cope with the volume of eager participants they're invariably disappointed.

Hang on a minute, you've just ridden a bike non stop, quite happily, for thirty minutes. That's three or four miles yet you'll get in your car tomorrow and drive half a mile to the shops, complaining about the volume of traffic all the way. I'm starting to think we should just give up on the adults as a lost cause.

The kids 'get it' though.

 

[magnatom]

and

Soon you will be intentionally extending your commute to work, just to get extra miles in!

 

[magnatom]

Hang on a minute, you've just ridden a bike non stop, quite happily, for thirty minutes. That's three or four miles yet you'll get in your car tomorrow and drive half a mile to the shops, complaining about the volume of traffic all the way. I'm starting to think we should just give up on the adults as a lost cause.

The kids 'get it' though.

Mickle, you could put cycle computers on the bikes and at the end of their try out, you could show them the distance they have cycled. At this point, as them how far it is to work and, who knows, the penny might drop!

 

[HelenD123]

Well done Alex! It feels great doesn't it!

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

Hello all

Been lurking here for a long time so feel with my milestone it's time to say hello.

Started riding my 20 year old mountain bike to work 2.5 miles away 28th April. Have been well and truly bitten by the bug since then. Proved to myself (and the wife) I could do it and sustain it so I treated myself to a Trek 7.3fx for my birthday at the end of July and have not looked back since. Clocked up the magic 1000 on the way to work yesterday morning and it's great. People at work were stunned when I started doing it at just 2.5 miles, they were even more stunned when I told them about 1000 miles.

I love it, I'm fitter, I'm 16 stone 5 down from 17 9 when I started and I really look forward to riding to work every morning.

Alex

Well done, lovely ain't it. What's amazed me is how people I know (neighbours or whatever) who are not especially inactive themselves sort of "take ownership" of me when introducing me to someone: "this is lazy commuter, he rides ALL THE WAY TO WORK every day, you know" as if it's some sort of heroic thing. Odd ..

Nice one alex..
The stunned attitude is universal i think. I was talking to a visiter at work who turned out to be a budding cycle enthusiast. He said the same...some people just dont get it. They just cannot comprehend what drives us to actually cycle when you can walk, drive or catch the bus. Their loss...

.. or maybe it isn't so odd. I guess I used to be in that category until the bug got me. Maybe we're the odd ones !?

 

[ausalex]

Cheers All

It does feel great.

I'm already well extending the commute. Did nearly 13 to get in this morning. Will see if I'm brave enough to go for 20 tomorrow, shouldn't be a problem it's just finding a nice route.