The Colorado Lifestyle

The Pookies have *finally* gotten off their respective behinds and started cycling -- 11 miles today, a great accomplishment for me! I almost said "biking," but since I ride a trike (WizWheelz TerraTrike Cruiser pictured at right) it would be blasphemy. In fact, I think trike enthusiasts (and there are tons of them!) would actually be offended if I said that I was biking on my trike. We'll never forget Al from Bikes at Vienna -- now that guy was an enthusiast! We still quote Al occasionally, "The more you ride, the faster you'll be, the more you'll want to ride, the faster you'll be..." Never doubt Al; I actually am getting a little faster. It helps that I've finally gotten the hang of the gears. Us Inerfelds are not known to be technically adept so it took a while for me to get it. In fact, my dad is in the market for a bike right now and he is so sure of his own technical ineptitude that he is thinking of getting one without any gears at all.

One of our goals in moving here to Colorado was to ditch our couch/computer potato lifestyle for the "Colorado Lifestyle." What, pray tell, is the Colorado Lifestyle? First, a disclaimer -- I'm still figuring it out so don't count on my as an expert on this. As far as I can tell, Coloradans are exemplified by being active and being outdoors. An example of this is Colorado being listed #8 on a list of states ranked by amount of physical exercise. It helps that we have very low humidity and about 300 days of sunshine per year so people actually want to be outside.

Cycling is a start to get us outside and moving...stay tuned while the Pookies figure out gardening and lawn care...