Exercise is always my favorite topic.
I like reading all of these posts about people amping up their exercise.
This my only post in Feb so far.
I had passes for the first three days of Feb so kind of embarrassed and didn't keep on.
But I could think a sentence or two about exercise.
Back at the turn of the century, heh funny, referring back to the turn of the century.
But back then I had kind of an antipathy for exercise and for exercise people.
I worked for a phone company back before there was even smart phones.
Now I got a phone that is smarter then me.
Where was I?
Exercise...
I went skiing one time with my wife. My legs were so atrophied and weak I couldn't even stay standing for the duration of a ski run. I had to sit and rest my legs a couple of times on the way down. My wife was way stronger than me.
So I thought back to my misspent youth.
Actually I thought further back than the misspent part.
I remembered that when I was a kid I used to live on a bicycle.
I had a paper route. I would load my bike up with papers and ride around a hilly neighborhood and throw them every which way.
Got money for that. Maybe that was my life's favorite job. Hey, somehow that was better than being a database administrator at a phone company.
But I go that memory back and became a cycling aficionado.

Eh, but this stuff of being old. I ain't no spring chicken or rooster any more. I don't do it every day. That's my big fizzle.

But still, I look at the contrast of me being a guy that had kind of a disdain for exercisers, to being a guy that realizes the exercise give me an ability and a path to fun.

Fun - as weird as it gets. I exercise, work out, you know kind of, in preparation for my "vacation."

My vacation is dynamic. I like running around in the mountains. That ain't driving around in the mountains. That is me getting on a bike and climbing over ridges and descending watersheds.

It is my second childhood.

It is me spending what is left of my body on fun.

Sometimes I think I am abusing this group with my braggadocio.
I mean what if my audience is guys whose exercise capacity is the stuff of long gone days?

I don't know. I used to get a lot of hits on that inspiration button. What if I was a guy people could read up on and get some vicarious experience?

I see there is some girls on here that works out several hours every day.

Hey that beats me hands down.

But what are we doing? We getting our bodies ready to be movie stars?

We just preserving our capacity to have fun?