Bicycle riding
I really want to get out and ride my bike more. I've only ridden it a couple times this year, both to work. With Sam, I'm thinking that my best opportunity to get to ride it will be to work for the reasonable near future so that I can be at home and available with Karin instead of taking off on my own for hours. However, I like riding different routes and exploring so that's a bit of a bummer.
I did try to get a new start on riding to work yesterday. I happened to be up fairly early because of the early bird in our family (Hint: Not me or Karin) and was moderately awake so decided to take advantage of that fact by biking to work. Unfortunately I got a flat after about 1.5 miles. Right after I had gone over the only big hill on the entire route. I haven't yet made it a habit to carry a flat kit (that will change), so I had to walk back home only to drive to work.
One neat occurrence that happened was that I saw my neighbor and our youth pastor both on their independent ways to work. That never happens when I'm isolated in my car. Scott, the youth pastor, will soon be biking to work as well I believe. His commute is less than 2 miles so at the bottom of that hill he would have almost been to work. :-)
I did try to get a new start on riding to work yesterday. I happened to be up fairly early because of the early bird in our family (Hint: Not me or Karin) and was moderately awake so decided to take advantage of that fact by biking to work. Unfortunately I got a flat after about 1.5 miles. Right after I had gone over the only big hill on the entire route. I haven't yet made it a habit to carry a flat kit (that will change), so I had to walk back home only to drive to work.
One neat occurrence that happened was that I saw my neighbor and our youth pastor both on their independent ways to work. That never happens when I'm isolated in my car. Scott, the youth pastor, will soon be biking to work as well I believe. His commute is less than 2 miles so at the bottom of that hill he would have almost been to work. :-)