How do you find time for N miles a day?

wrote in message
oups.com...


wrote:
: I work 6 days a week with a commute that means I don't get home
: until 6pm. How do you all find time for these "N miles a day" rides?


Shoot your TV.

- Frank Krygowski

Or even better: shoot your computer.

Cheers!
Duke

On 21 Jun 2005 02:46:27 -0700, "Maggie" wrote:



Rich wrote:
Maggie wrote:

What about people who have families and their family members do not
ride bikes.

Convert them.



Convert them?? OK, I am supposed to convert my family to bike riding?
How do I manage that one? My sons think bicycles are something for
indigents who can't afford a car, people charged with DUI's, or a means
of transportation when you have not reached driving age yet. My
husband just thinks its stupid.

Does he also think the 'Net is stupid? Maybe you're not giving him enough
credit...he puts up with you, after all! g

And he is an exercise freak. Every
morning faithfully since he was a teenager. Mostly free weights and
the treadmill for running. All of my family is athletic, but none of
them will be bike riding unless they have some type of personality
change in the near future. Bike riding is not something everyone is
into. They all exercise, they are all in shape, they lead active lives
but they are not at all interested in bicycling.

Quite often runners or other weekend athlete types turn to cycling when
they have an injury which prevents them from doing their chosen activity,
seeing the cycling as remedial or therapeutic aid. Frequently, it seems,
once they see the advantages and recreational opportunities that cycling
offers they become hooked and switch over to that as their primary
activity. It's got something for everybody, imo. ymmv.

The youngest son,
snowboards, surfs, skydives, skateboards, and work outs. That is an
athletic kid. I could never get him to ride a bike unless he was
desperate to get somewhere and did not have a car. My oldest rides a
motorcycle. My daughter works out at the gym and puts in long hours at
the hospital. You give me a method to convert my family to cycling.
I'll try it. We'll see if it works.

Maggie.

Screw it. I figure that spending 10-12 hours per week re-investing in my
own mental, physical and emotional well-being is not at all an extreme
amount of time. Even half that amount can pay dividends. If the fam can't
deal, tell 'em to cook their own meals.

jj

Dukester wrote:
wrote in message

Shoot your TV.

- Frank Krygowski

Or even better: shoot your computer.

Cheers!
Duke


If I shoot my computer, I might get fired. When I leave the office, I
stay far away from the computer. A full day at work, looking at this
computer is enough for me. I hate going near it at home. I do because I
have a home business, believe me, anyone who is chained to a computer
all day, would rather be biking. It is getting harder and harder to
leave this office and go home and work in my home office. I am
beginning to hate these computers. Maybe that is why I started posting
on this NG during work.

Maggie

jj wrote:
If the fam can't deal, tell 'em to cook their own meals.

jj

I have not been the chief cook and bottle washer for many years. I work
full time and run my own business. Everyone cooks now. And I must
say, my sons are excellent cooks. So is my husband. He makes a mean
gravy. (for non Italians, that is the sauce that goes on spagetti) ;-)
He makes enough for a month at a time and jars it. My daughter can't
cook for ****.

The three men in my house are fantastic cooks. My father-in-law was a
fantastic cook. It is great. I had my share of cooking when the kids
were little, now its my turn to be served. I am very fortunate that my
father in law, my husband and now my sons do not see cooking as a
female thing. They love to cook. And I don't mean simple dishes. They
love to cook complicated dishes that require alot of preparation. They
all think they are Chef Boy r Dee.

Maggie.

saki wrote in message ...

(he'll have to learn to do this eventually; he claims he wants to ride in
the Tour de France).

My younger daughter wants to be in the Tour de France only so she'll get
kissed by cute podium boys.

--
Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/
See the books I've set free at:
http://bookcrossing.com/referr*al/Cpetersky

lowkey wrote in message ...

A co-worker asked me [we being of the same age and 30-something spread]
about exercise as he wanted to lose his extra mass as I had - well most of
it , but he has three small kids and no time.

I suggested this.

Assuming you get along with your spouse; come to an agreement. For 30
minutes three times a week you ach have 'your time' to exercise. It doesn't
have to be cycling; swimming, jogging, whatever you wish. The point is the
other spouse takes care of the kids and anything else. Those 90 minutes a
week are _your_time_.

Surely even the busiest of working parents can handle the domestic load for
the other for 90 minutes a week so they can both exercise?

Have you ever had three small kids and be one of two employed parents? I
agree in general that finding time for cycling does come down to
"priorities", but when the kids were babies and toddlers was the time of my
life in which I did the least amount of cycling. When kids are little they
are a tremendous amount of work, they don't necessarily sleep through the
night, and you spend most of your time in a half-dead, sleep-deprived state
of zombiehood, I swear. Now I live in the lap of luxury, having them be
normal human beings, and but I realize what hell it was when they were in
diapers.

My husband used to give me 30 minutes three times a week, and I used to use
that time for things like zoning in a hot bath or taking a nap. That was my
idea of "priorities"!


--
Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/
See the books I've set free at:
http://bookcrossing.com/referr*al/Cpetersky

"Maggie" wrote in message
oups.com...

Convert them?? OK, I am supposed to convert my family to bike riding?
snip Maggie.

Hey Maggie. That sucks. I figured most fitness oriented people had biking in
the mix. Certainly my extended family does. (parents, sister, nephews
etc...)

One thing for your son: has he tried extreme mountain biking? If he's in to
extreme sports, have him look at some of the videos of extreme mountain
biking featured online.

Don't know if it would spark his interest but I don't know any adrenaline
junkies who don't downhill. http://www.petefagerlin.com/video_gallery.htm.

I think these guys are off their stick but I love watching them. ;p

(Google "mountain biking video" for scads of them)

Just a thought!

C.

C.J.Patten wrote:

One thing for your son: has he tried extreme mountain biking? If he's in to
extreme sports, have him look at some of the videos of extreme mountain
biking featured online.

Don't know if it would spark his interest but I don't know any adrenaline
junkies who don't downhill. http://www.petefagerlin.com/video_gallery.htm.

I think these guys are off their stick but I love watching them. ;p


Both of my sons have been into dirt biking. I think that is something
like extreme mountain biking. At least they were in the woods and on
dirt bikes. Maybe it's sort of the same. The day my son told me he was
going to skydive, I realized I had raised a couple boys who are off
their stick. ;-)

My one son traveled to Ohio or something so he could go to that
amusement park which is all roller coasters. He brought home some
video, I thought he was nuts.

My youngest son is the worst though. He loves extreme sports. He
started out stateboarding when he was about 7 years old and it
escalated from there. He is a real daredevil. He loved skateboarding
and because of that, his main mode of transportation as a kid was not a
bike but a board. Ask me how many times he was taken to the police
station for doing some type of stair jump on someones front
steps......Glad those days are over.

Maybe as he gets older he will look into cycling, but right now, at 21,
he loves jumping out of planes and snowboarding. Maybe if he has kids
someday, he will change his attitude about his chosen sports.
HOPEFULLY. To me, that kind of spirit is in the blood.....he has been
like this since he was a little boy. When other kids his age were
crying on thrill rides, he was holding up his arms and laughing. He
also loves mountain climbing and the tamest thing he does, is scuba
diving. He went to the islands last month and did alot of that.

I have no clue, why he has that personality. I certainly don't.

Maggie.

Maggie wrote:





It's a matter of priorities. Excepting for workaholics people do have
leisure time. The choice - your choice - is how you choose to use it.


What about people who have families and their family members do not
ride bikes. Yes, it is a matter of priorities......and riding a
bicycle is not always the appropriate priority. People who do the
family rides and bike together, probably cannot understand why riding a
bike may be way down on the list of an individuals priorities.

If you have parents, a spouse, kids, grandkids and a full time
job......there actually may be choices to make that do not include
riding a bike. Choices and responsibilities. In a perfect world, we
may all be able to do whatever we want with our leisure time, but it's
not a perfect world.

The only people I know who ride whenever and wherever they want, are
single with no children. Or people who ride with the family. To me
that would be the perfect world The one where the family all rides
together. I love reading Clare's posts about family rides. But it's not
that way for everyone.

I am back in a small way here and have to admit that while my wife and grown
kids won't ride with me, the grandkids love to, but not on anything past 20
miles, which seems to exceed their endurance. For me these are not training
rides since the kids can't all ride fast and are always stopping to look at
something. Right now is blackberry/raspberry season in California so there
are lots of snack stops. Long rides tend to be loners since all my family
and friends are car people. ,sigh.
Bill Baka

It was a beautiful weekend and I was only able to get 2 hours out of it
to bike. Unless I wanted to forget it was Fathers Day on Sunday and
leave all my company and go out on my bike.....or take off when my
Sister in law was visiting on Saturday.

Not all of us can put riding a bike as a top priority during leisure
time.

Maggie