Originally Posted by
alanbikehouston
If you are riding to improve your health, try to ride every day. Riding all day, just one time a week will leave you tired and sore, and do little to improve your health or fitness. Riding just 30 minutes or an hour, five or six days a week will greatly improve your health, if you stick with it, month after month. In six months, you will feel ten years younger and your doctor will think someone else took your lab tests.
I've lost 50 lbs in the last year doing exactly this. There were quite a few weeks where all I did was 35 miles in a week - my work commmute.
Originally Posted by
Hobartlemagne
I respect riders who ride better than me, not ones who just look better than me.
I respect riders who behave like civilized human beings towards others.
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