I haven't ridden in a while and was trying to remind myself why I ride and realized it's almost like ritalin for me. I'm extremely AD/HD and am either lost in my own world or bouncing of the walls or both, so when I was thinking today, bouncing around in my seat, about the extremely few reasons why I don't ride, the one the came to mind was how lethargic I am after a ride. Physically, anyway. My mind is always plastered to what my ride was just like, what the next one will be, and the one great ride way back when...

I know for me, like many others for many reasons, riding, commuting especially, saved my life, but I never actually thought of cycling as being strictly therapeutic in any sense other than something between the regular bump and grind. I was curious if anyone else had any experiences like this.