Just ride.

Ride where you feel like, when you feel like, for as far as you feel like (though on that one, if you ride in a straight line try to estimate when you're only halfway out of energy so you have enough to get back home)

Don't ride like other people ride. They are doing it their way.

It's a fun hobby, not the Marines. Don't let others tell you how to ride.

Just go do it until you're tired of it for the day. Over time you'll develop preferences of what you do and don't like. Do that stuff more and less.

In short, enjoy it. Don't think of it as something where you have to conform to what everyone else is doing.