[ndnxhs]

I have found cycling to be a good daily exercise. It becomes my commute so it takes no time out of my day also there is no way to give up. I can stop at any time at a gym but if I stop on my bike I still have to get back home.

I have a pretty brutal uphill way back home but I feel great after which makes me do it again the next day.

[pjbster]

I miss cycling to and from work. I used to live 27 miles away from the office and I'd do that ride 5 days a week. Yeah it was 3 hours out of the day but the alternatives didn't add up to a whole lot less than 2 hours anyway so I didn't mind. But my fitness was incredible. I could jump on the bike at the weekend and do a hilly century no problem. I once did an Everesting challenge which amounted to 13 hours going uphill and I held several KOMs on local Strava segments.

But I had a bad collision which has kept me off the bike for 15 months now. When the doctors were attending me in hospital they had to double check my birthdate because they assumed I was 20 years younger. They wouldn't make the same mistake now -- I really feel like I've aged 10 years in that time.

[temo4ka]

Yep, it's great unless the uphill is actually on the way to the job, then it becomes not so great :-)

[ndnxhs]

In that case I'd use an ebike. Still decent fitness but not super intence