Active: "Engaged in action or activity; characterized by energetic work, motion, etc."

I have been on a recent attempt to stay active.  It's fairly minimal, really.  I have been doing a 25 minute (typically stationary) bike ride once or twice a day.  I want to mimic riding to and from work/school/whatever I would potentially be riding to, if I had somewhere to ride to.

I am a lazy rider*.  I've been out on the roads around here, but they start off hilly and discourage me from going very far.  I tend not to set real goals for myself because if I'm making it a goal, it means that I don't actually want to do it but think I should.  If it is something I really want to be doing, I don't have to make it a goal... it just happens.  So in the spirit of not making goals, my goal is to go a little bit further on the roads each time I go out, until I get to a more pleasant area to ride.  That would be something I think I should do, but don't particularly want to.  I would much rather just drive out to the centennial trail and ride along that.  That should be nice and easy.

 *Figure 1.  Graph of data collected on my desire to ride along a route given its relative relief.

 

The outliers above line are from a relatively inspired day, outliers laying below the line come from a very lazy day. **note: no data was actually collected.

I hope to get two things out of this.  First, when I stay more active, I feel healthier, eat less, and have a generally better outlook on life.  Helps me remain optimistic and upbeat (which has been somewhat lacking in the last month and a half or so).  And secondly, I have been built with closer to what I would call a sprinter's body.  Given the opportunity, I would almost always rather give exhaust myself in a burst of work.  But this has produced bulkier muscles, which I would like to try to convert, over time, to a leaner muscle structure.  I'm not obsessive, but it would be nice. Plus, as an added bonus, it gives me something to do, wakes me up for the day, and makes each day have a little bit more purpose. 

Plus plus, I get to look awesome doing it.

 

"Working out" is most worth it for the outfit

We will see how long this attempt lasts. I hope for a while, but then... the me right now has little say over what the me in a week or a month does.  I should hopefully be a similar person, but I have little jurisdiction over the future.

On another note, I got to drive my first tractor today. I felt like a superhero saving the day... chugging along at a few miles an hour on a large, red tractor.  The me from my childhood would be very happy.