I've been a runner for years, and still like it. But I hate running in the rain, especially when I'm stopping off at Minto Brown Park in Salem, OR, running 5 miles or so, then getting in my car soaking wet. Now that I'm down to must my motorcycle it's even worse. I realized toward the end of last year that I could take buses for much of my 50 mile one way commute, but needed to go the 9 miles from Falls City to Dallas. Hence the conversion to bicycle commuting. I haven't been in this good of shape in the winter for as long as I can remember. If I take a stretch of time off from work I will go running, but where I live it's all uphill for a few miles, then back down. I lift weights, do yoga, and taekwon do forms on my non-commuting days. I try to do nothing for one or two days a week, my rest days.

I walk a lot at work but I can't walk fast enough to get a cardio workout unless I'm walking up a steep hill or carrying a lot of weight with me, neither of which happens at work. I just walk to relax.