Originally Posted by pdxtex

tired, hungry, far from home and headwind, not fun. singlespeed, 3 cups of coffee, cheese danish, stiff bike shoes , slayer on your ipod, bombing downhill thru a cemetary? very fun! the only other activities ive ever done with competency which were more fun, pool skating and snowboarding in knee deep powder. which may actually be the most fun! but yes, cycling kind of bridges the gap between aerobic drudgery and velocity based fun. cycling downhill is extremely fun. cycling uphill when you arent really feeling can be the pitts. still beats running though. that #$%^ sucks.