The biggest choice I make everyday:
To walk or to bike? My thought process:
1. Is it raining?
Yes: Walk. It is not fun to bike in the rain. You get twice as soaked, well... just your front half. Also, it's much more dangerous.
No: Proceed to next question.
How am I feeling today?
Biking is good for fast trips and fun, and a nice little workout. If I am concerned about the time, I'll choose bike, sometimes even when it's raining. For example: biking to work downtown takes roughly five minutes while walking takes about 15 - 20 minutes.
However, biking takes all your attention if you want to avoid becoming roadkill. And sometimes, I don't want to think which leads to...
Walking. What it's really got going for it: I can walk and listen to music. And I really like doing that. Walking also allows me to think and it's better if I do more of that... unless I don't want to think, in which case I just put Yeah Yeah Yeah's on and have a nice rocking-on-the-inside stroll. But then, I'm sort of impatient.
Other factors: Am I traveling with someone? Do they have a bike? Do I plan on going grocery shopping or picking other things up on my travels? Are my brakes working well? (currently, no. But not bad enough...)
I've been doing more walking recently.
1 comments :
walking pretty much wins every time for me. the biking situation at nau is so sad that people ride on the sidewalks which make it hard for people to walk. the drivers here just do not share the road, in fact, they get mad if you ride on the road and insist on you using the sidewalk with the other bikers, but a bike is considered a vehicle so i legitimately get share of the road too right? whenever nau hands out a survey, i always talk about this in the suggestions/comments section. fakkahs. can't wait to move to portland!
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