One year of cycling to work
I don&#x27;t like bike commuting. I have biked 2 miles&#x2F;3.2km each way to the office for the past 16 years, at least twice a week and usually all five days. I still don&#x27;t like it. Maybe I&#x27;m just a fat, lazy son of a gun? Maybe I don&#x27;t have an enjoyable bike?<p>The commute is pretty, safe, flat, and quiet. Birds, ponds, and trees, with very few cars and no hills. The weather here is tolerable and I don&#x27;t sweat enough to require a shower. The only close calls I had were at the beginning when I wasn&#x27;t being careful. (There is a small section mixed with heavy traffic.)<p>Every time I get to the office I&#x27;m glad the ride is over, and every time I must leave to go home I don&#x27;t look forward to the ride. I don&#x27;t arrive invigorated, and in fact the opposite. I&#x27;ve lost and gained weight seemingly unrelated to the number of miles ridden.<p>I&#x27;ve had several bikes in that time but none of them really seem to &quot;fit&quot;, nor are they very fast. I want a nice silky commuter with fenders and panniers and thin wheels but that&#x27;s always pretty far out of reach from budget, and I&#x27;m not 100% convinced it will make a big difference anyway. So I stick to a Craigslist special with a backpack, with upgrades to the ride as I get money.<p>I remember enjoying biking so much as a kid. I would ride all over the place, and hardly a year has passed since childhood that I don&#x27;t put on a lot of miles on two wheels. But now as an adult it&#x27;s just drudgery. Don&#x27;t know why.<p>And it&#x27;s not just the commute I don&#x27;t like. Also tried to do some trails and longer rides for fun, but it turned into the same drudgery quickly.<p>I don&#x27;t know what else I can do. But I&#x27;ll continue to soldier on with the ride.