The New Normal

Tomorrow morning I'm going to make yet another effort to bike to work consistently. This time, I think it'll stick. I could never manage it before because it was just to short. Sure, there are still benefits to biking two miles, but it's hard to talk myself out of it when I'm saving maybe a gallon of gas a week in addition to getting the flexibility of being able to leave without having to think about much if I need to. I put that to use over lunches occasionally when I had things to take care of, like visiting my friendly neighborhood Social Security office, but the reality is, I didn't do it all that much and I shouldn't miss anything like that. It was just hard to get worked up over 2 miles, which sounds ridiculous, I know, but it didn't trigger anything for me.

Now, it's more like 12 miles. And it starts out uphill for the first couple miles. Should be a blast. More to the point, though, it should give me the ability to guarantee getting riding time in, as if I do ride my bike every day during a work week, I'm looking at 120 miles per week not including any weekend riding or detours on the way home. So sure, it's an hour of my time on either side, but I'm not getting up much earlier than I would be if I were leaving from here anyway, and I'll still be getting home around the same time I would normally barring no overtime.

Maybe, though, I'm just ready to make something like this stick. I'm not out to save the world here, but it's something I enjoy that I've done a poor job of making time for the past couple weeks, and it will save me significantly on gas. At least that's the hope. I think I have the maturity and the wherewithal to follow through on goals now, which, while never being my strongest suit, has been something I've done much better the past few years. And sure it'll be weird for the first couple of days, but then it eventually becomes what I do, and that becomes the new normal. Whatever normal is. But that's something for another time. Anyway, I should try to get some more sleep if I'm going to make this happen the first week and to that end, I'll do something I probably should do more often. Go to bed instead of seeing what I can turn up on the various corners of the internets.