cycling and contemplation

[baratron]

I need a holiday, but I don't get on very well with days off. When I'm on my own and I've got work to do that is repetitive and tedious rather than involving a brain, I think too much, and make myself upset. It's amazing what my subconscious can dig up. I know I have some work to do on broken bits of thinking over the summer, but poking at it doesn

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[epi_lj]

Cycling has much the same effect on me, and I also didn't respond the same to most other forms of exercise. (Perhaps frisbee and DDR were similar for me, but not exactly.) During NaNoWriMo, I got most of my ideas for stories while cycling, because it was a good place to muse. In the winter, cycling on snow is the most in-the-moment thing I've done.

[keldaryth]

[hiddenpaw]

When I used to cycle to work on my bike I used to come up with loads of great songs and ideas of how to do cover virsions that were actualy worth listening to. Trouble was when I got home and in to a possition to write things down it would all fly my mind. One thing I learned very well in the prison service is that adrenalin plays with the mind and although posertive in some ways really knobles your memory of the time your adrenalin was pumping.