The first time I wrote about how cycling has changed my life was 11 years ago when I had only been blogging for about four months, but when I review it, it’s still true. To republish it I’ve updated a few things. That’s not to say that I haven’t developed as a person or a cyclist in the past 11 years, it’s that cycling is such a big part of who I am.
A wonderful benefit of writing this blog is that it leads me to meet some wonderful women (most of the time only via email and phone) and hear how cycling has had an impact on their lives. Women often describe cycling in terms of their whole life rather than just as a form of exercise or a way to meet new people.
There are fundamentally three ways cycling has changed my life:
Health
During the past 14 years, I’ve never been fitter and healthier. Cycling has played a large role in my health and fitness. I do also jog a little and attend a weekly personal training session, but I see those as supplementary to my cycling. When I took up cycling 14 years ago, I rode once a week on Saturday morning which was a distance of about 35 km (I still do the same ride every Saturday).
As my interest grew so did my mileage and over those years has grown to three or four rides per week with a total of about 120…
