Moving about

The view on my cycle ride on Friday

Yesterday morning I was sitting in the living room. I had just had my breakfast and I just felt like I wanted to do some exercise. You read right: WANTED. The question however was: was I going to walk, or was I going to cycle. I looked outside and the weather was quite nice. Sunshine and wind. A fair bit of wind. Walking it was!

Don't get me wrong, I don't walk for hours. Not yet. At the moment I will do anything between 30 and 45 minutes, equating to about 2 to 3 kilometers. Which is fine. The main reason I don't do much more yet is that I want to get my pace up. Today I did just over 3 km (about 2 miles) and my speed was great. Just under 5 km/hour. I want to go faster than that before I add more distance. Building it up slowly.

That yellow sign is a bus stop sign

I also have to think of the knee. Several years ago when I still lived in Norway, me and my friend Pepperfly went out sledding. She hurt her finger (it still bothers her) and at the end of the day I fell quite badly on a stretch of ice. On my left knee. It hurt then, it still bothers me now. But I need to move it, otherwise I can feel it stiffen up. Which isn't good either. 

Cycling would be better apparently, as there is no weight on the knee then, just the movement. But I don't always want to cycle, I want to walk. See the bus stop right in someone's back garden. Enjoy the flowers in people's front yards. 

That is not to say I don't cycle. In fact, last Friday I did cycle. It had been boiling hot all day and I really didn't feel like going, but in the end, at 8 pm, I got up and went for a tour. I had the idea of going left, so I went right. I saw a small deer jumping away, a hare, several storks. Oh, and a gazillion flying creepies. 

I had several of those during the weekend.
Mmmmmmmmmmm and another reason to work out.

I will start cycling more. My goal is to be able to cycle to work and back every day (7,5 km one way). At least as long as I am working in this town. Chances are that come December that will be changed to a town about 40 km away. I am not cycling that! Not even on a nice sunny day.