I love June. Oh, if it could just be June all year round. After a full day working I went home, had a nice supper, and still had time and daylight to get in almost 20 miles on the bike trail between Hamel and Staunton.
It's such a luxury to be able to ride in nice weather and daylight while working full time. I guess people in warmer climates have more options, and I think about that more and more as I get older. If and when retirement gets here, I want to live where I can enjoy the majority of the year doing activities like riding and walking and playing outdoors.
I like living in the Midwest most of the time. Winter is getting harder for me to take every year, and I'm sure tired of the incessant rains we've had this year. I'm waterlogged.
Certainly a lot of people have solved the problem in their retirement years by spending the winters down south. My dad lives most of the year in southern Texas, and spends his summers in the north. I imagine that he has the right weather for bike riding most of the time, but I also want a good place to ride. Many of the places we've visited would not be good for riding: no trails, or narrow, congested roads. I am not a road rider, although I'm starting to branch out a bit more. Riding the trails all the time gets a bit monotonous, though we're fortunate to have a pretty good variety if you don't mind driving a bit to a different starting point.
You can't get consistent if you only ride on the weekends. The key is to find another day or two during the week to get in a ride or some other kind of exercise. In bad weather, I don't mind a half-hour on the treadmill. But in nice weather I want an hour or so of daylight so I can get outside. I love June.
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