First, a joke:

How many ADD kids does it take to change a lightbulb?

I don’t know, how many.

Hey, let’s go ride bikes!

I don’t think that’s exactly how it went when I first heard the joke but it’s pretty darn similar. Anyway…over the weekend we went bike shopping for David. I already have a bike (Specialized Hardrock - similar to this picture), and have had one for about 10 years now. For the better part of those 10 years it’s either been sitting in a closet or hanging in the garage waiting for someone to do something with it.

I think I rode it exactly two times after I first bought it, and then never rode it again. Not because I can’t, or because I don’t like to, I just lost the motivation.

A month or so ago, David pulled it down from the garage hook, filled the tires with air, and took it for a test spin around the block. But then again it got hung back up and wasn’t talked about - until last Friday.

We’ve been trying to come up with some active things we can do together, to lose weight, that doesn’t require the gym. I can’t stand going to the gym and David has been paying for a membership for the last year without ever going. We needed to find something we could do right from the house. So I said, “why don’t we go out on Saturday morning and head over to the bike shop and buy you a bike?”

And thus the idea was born. We went to East Sac Bikes first, because we’d never been there and they seemed to have a wide selection of bikes. A wide selection of $600 bikes is more like it. We were in the store for less than 5 minutes before I was pestering David to leave. Then off we went to Target. Target had a pretty good selection of men’s mountain bikes, and after test driving 3 of them along the aisle, we found a very nice one.

David is now the proud owner of a Schwinn Clearcreek, and it’s a pretty sassy looking bike as you can see here.

So we’ve gone on three rides already, and we’re going to try to keep the momentum up and see how much weight we can lose. So far it’s been a lot of fun riding around town, but we’re working up to longer rides and tougher rides. I’ll let you all know how it goes, and how much my waist line shrinks!

Cheers!