On Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 4:55:25 PM UTC-6, Joe Bernard wrote:
Grant mentioned this to me a few weeks ago and I thought I'd pass
it along: "A 10 to 30 minute ride is always a good idea." I really
appreciated this because - although I'm not trying to bust out
metric centuries anymore - I still have a tendency to think short
rides don't count as a "real ride." Of course that's silly, but
apparently I needed to be reminded. Today I had exactly 30 minutes
available before work started, so I grabbed my Bobbin mini velo
(Choco-Moose bars) and hit the road. It was fabulous.
He also said, "You should never do a ride you wouldn't want to do
every day. Well maybe 4 times a year, 5 tops." I love that.
In many ways a 10 minute ride is a waste of time and a waste of an
opportunity. All those people who have potential issues with bone
density/osteo-whatever, would be much better off walking the two miles,
thereby strengthening their bones, than riding, which does nothing for
them other than sheer transportation. It's not long enough to even act
as exercise. And at this time of year (the entire country being in the
midst of a continent-wide sweltering heat dome) it's too short to make
it worth while to change into comfortable clothing, and in uncomfortable
clothing, even a mere paltry 10 minutes of effort will make you so
uncomfortable you'll give up on the entire idea.
A half hour is more like it: you can get much farther in that time than
you can walking, and 30 minutes of cycling is actually enough to do you
some good in terms of exercise, even though it's not long enough to
really enjoy yourself. An hour is better than a half hour; two hours is
better still, and three hours is even better. But for real fun, 5-8
hours is more like it.
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