When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day’s sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay’s call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else’s heart. ~Diane Ackerman
When riding a bike there is always those visuals, the simple challenges, this quote speaks to one of the most remarkable of ideas, that it is possible to overcome, to transcend as she so adequately put it, and to keep the rotations going and the progress happening. So very clear and very simple to recognize that to Ride a bike More is to deal with all the variables the good and the bad of it.
The first day of February, and 26 Days to make it a habit to ride my bike more. To Do it is the objective, to follow through must be the directive.
I often wonder sometimes why I do not ride, perhaps it was that I got lost in the world of the sims, lost in that virtual verse. Or was it simply because it is easier to not do then to actually do. Both valid questions that I need to answer for myself, or perhaps you can offer your insight, in the challenges you faced and how you overcame them for whatever goal, but preferably specific to Riding my Bike More.
With any change certainly there will be challenges, through those challenges I know I need to grow, and so I constantly set up one more entry, one more view, for the good and the bad of it. I will ride my bike more.
To put action to the words, is the only way sometimes to overcome and change …
Even if it was only a short ride to the local library to pick up Nineteen minutes by Jodi Picoult as I had read some reviews of it on Heliumand decided to go and get a copy fortunately there was one on hand at a library near here.
There was also a book that was Overdue The Winner Stands Alone by Paulo Coelho that had been recommended to me, and I had read it and enjoyed it thoroughly. Yet I had fallen behind whether because I was in a habit of not getting out and riding or simply procrastination but I knew I had to do it and after seeing another cyclist still riding in the pouring rain I went for it.
Since it was raining though I put the Book in my Pannier(Click to Define what Pannier is) which I have found indispensable in riding my bike more. Not to mention it is great for bicycle commuting to boot. Put a plastic bag over the book to be sure none of the water would find it’s pages and opened the garage and was on my way.
As I am an advocate of bicycling as a vehicle, I followed the roads out and stayed on the roads from my house to the library and back using turn signals and keeping pace while getting soaked. I can honestly say though it felt good to be out there by Human Power traveling with traffic and even when I got home I may of been soaked but was glad I got out there and put action to the words, thanks to the anonymous cyclist who was doing just that. Putting action to the words rain or shine.
While I was out today, I saw something that reminded me of the fact that really there is no excuse, rain or shine, you can always ride a bike. As I was sitting in the car, near the Salvation Army I see a cyclist fly by, wearing reflective clothes and cruising at an amazing speed soaked to a point where his outside slicker was stuck to his skin but he was still riding, not caring that rain was falling or water that may of been flying up into his face.
It reminded me that you can ride no matter the weather it is just a matter of gritting your teeth jumping on the bike and riding rain or shine, I wish I would of got a picture, but it was surely a reminder to me as a visual cue that it can be done, that riding a bike more can and should be done.
To whomever that is, thanks for the reminder, and the reason to make this challenge come about by Februrary 28th 2010.
When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day’s sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay’s call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else’s heart. ~Diane Ackerman
Such great words, to take on the challenge is to keep on task, rain or shine, whether easy or difficult I truly need to take the steps and get back out there and ride, it is sad to say the one account I setup for bicycling related information on twitter has been to long devoid of new thoughts or ideas and stories of rides which previously was what became the tweets from that account.
As Such from this point forward to February 2010, I need to take the steps and ride, as the initial plan before was to travel to Boston and ride come March, but to do that requires some previous conditioning and additional income both of which are on my goals list. So this is the start, the rest of the story can only be seen as the action is taken and I get out and ride again.
Well I did get out and ride, not for very much in the end, but at least I rode just a bit, come Sunday my objectives is to cover additional miles as I am keeping a going Tally on Riding My Bike 10,000 Miles By Year End which is in line with this objective.
It was certainly a short ride for a Saturday, but there is a whole week ahead and an entire day to ride through when the sun is shining tomorrow, so bit by bit it always goes.
It's primary focus of this account on Twitter and blog also at Word Press to speak on Alternative Transportation, Bicycling, and anything that helps one more person step away from this Car Centric Society that we live in today.
Also this specific account can also be considered a mouthpiece for the Bicycling and Health Project, which is initially scheduled to be For the month of July 2009. As June 2009 was also directly related to Open Source Month, that was extended up through this month as well. And as I am finding out besides, the project itself is always ongoing as I am learning how to work with Ubuntu as my primary Operating System so really I have no choice in the matter but to learn.
Indeed this has become an ongoing process, that works pretty well, whereby there is no choice in the matter but to keep it alive and make progress as it has also been one of my more popular blogs from what I have seen according to some of the recent stats.
Each was initially, dedicated to particular subjects and topics, as well as setup initially to insure there was no personification on twitter of who I am, as that is also an issue.
Word Press
Is a new medium that has a bit more interesting options then Blogger which is why I decided to go with it for the moment...
Also the ease of redirection as I guess you can also do with Blogspot via Blogger seems to make good sense to me, So I took the proper steps in this new direction and begin setting up blogs at Word Press and yet I wonder if it is similarly how it went with Blogspot, mutliple blogs on multiple subjects, that are worked on every now and again. So Really I need to look at that aspect of the circumstance.
Majority of things done by your own power, there is also car pools and public transit systems that have there own set of possibilities. Public Transit and Car Pools are something to consider but rather should put focus on traveling by human power either by Bike or by Walking.
Bicycling and Health
The month of July is supposed to be a month of BicyclingToday and about BicyclistsToday to speak on and to write about the wonders of bicycling and why everyone should be out there riding, how there are other possibilities then driving #An Automobile with less pollution and added -=Health Benefits=- to mix to ExtendLife by simply making TheChoice to do something different to take steps in a new direction for new experiences yet to be had.
Also makes sense to look at blogs that are doing well that are on the grow one such example is http://bikesnobdc..com I will have to read up on more of his writing as he may also be worthy of a follow. Bicyclists United, can truly make a difference.
Thursday, July 16, 2:06 PM
"Forgot to take my vitamin today. The road to health, like the road to work, is full of potholes."
20.07.2009 03:07
To complete Bicycling and Health Month what I can do is finish Write Out - My First Bicycle Tour 2003 via Tasque. That would be a fitting end to this interesting month, but the question is there is only about 10 days left in it, so I need to organize my thoughts and figure out best approach.
Though actually, as I consider it, I could continue Bicycling and Health through the weekends in August 2009.
Open Source
The wonders of an open software program and a group of like minded people who want to see less --Proprietary Crap being used for the AverageDesktopUser while also EncouragingCoding of new additions and improvements over the last one.
While taking the time to Understand the Situation (Open Source) of what people deal with, to bring Open Source is to also inform others of the comparable benefits and similar interface of each system, Highlighting the Increased Security of the OpenSourceAlternatives.
For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. ~Bill Strickland,
Two Wheel LifeWhy Biking is a pleasant exercise.
Why we should all startcycling.
The Reasons are numerous to ride.
So many can they all be covered here?
