uh so i uh weight train uh three days on and one day off
uh so what do you do to exercise
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i uh ride bicycles um fifteen twenty miles
i don't know maybe three times maybe four times a week i play basketball uh couple times a week i play softball one night a week
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uh that's what i do what about yourself
hm that's pretty impressive um i guess i bicycle uh the amount varies as much as a hundred fifty miles a week um
uh-huh
i guess i play softball one night a week and i backpack a lot over the summer
oh really
yeah that's that's about the extent of it i mean i don't do any of those things particularly you know for exercise
but um i guess the bicycling is the one thing i'll sort of like do if i feel like i need to go exercise um but i do it mostly for fun
yeah what um what do you ride uh like bunch of hills or flat pretty flat
it it it varies uh out near my house is pretty hilly um but sometimes i bike to work which is about um a fifteen mile trip each way and that's mostly flat
how long does that take you to get to work
about forty five fifty minutes
how does how does that work work out with uh storing your bike and showering and all that
yeah it can be a pain um
basically uh i work on a campus so i can store my bike in my office and walk across the uh campus to the uh gym use the shower there uh but it's it's enough of a pain that
uh-huh
i did it consistently one year i would commute everyday um
but it just became such a pain i mean we were talking you know forty five or fifty minutes for biking um and sometimes longer if you had adverse wind
right
and then another half an hour you know to cool down and take a shower and all this kind of stuff it was a big hunk of well hunk of the day um and then of course another hour to get back home um
so i've been doing that less and and concentrating more on you know light biking when i get home on the evening and then you know some more on the weekends
yeah do you ride a lot of rallies are lot of those around there
not so much um
i guess mostly i bike on my own i've got a touring bike
uh-huh
um though i haven't gone on any extended trips with it how about you what kind of biking do you do
uh well actually my wife just got me into it and i did a did an internship at the Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas at Cooper Clinic and i learned all the health benefits of
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i you know i was a solid weight trainer and all i did was weights and anaerobic exercise and then my wife got me into the aerobic exercise said you really need to do it so
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once i got into this uh internship i learned all the physiological advantages advantages
advantages to it so i began a program couple i don't know probably three or four weeks ago and i did my first bike rally this Saturday i did uh forty forty miles
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and uh that's the longest i've ever ridden so far i usually you know fifteen or twenty and it was it was kind of hilly and it was pretty tough but
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uh i'm looking at uh doing a lot more of it because you know my wife is really into it and i i kind of
oh i see
held her back a little bit this this weekend she wanted to go go go but you know she wanted to stay with me
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it's good to have a partner
yeah it really is
are you you thinking of doing any like centuries or
yeah that'd be cool sometime if i could you know work up to that
um-hum yeah i just wondered if you're were gonna do that mostly or more like you know uh um
uh touring like from Vermont or you know that kind of thing i mean people seem to get into different aspects one is more of a distance and one's more just you know they wanna
oh
put some equipment on their bike and go for a tour
i've never really looked into that that you know that's my wife would just love that and i may do that sometime there again i'm just kind of a fledgling into this
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i've it's kind of funny i'd called this number and i just reading through a a bicycle magazine and going through all the different tours coming up i mean around Texas you got
yeah yeah
you got about five or six different if you live around the Dallas area you got five or six every weekend to choose from because they're really into it
oh that's nice
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bicycling's really big here i didn't know that and you know till i came down here and just kind of caught the fever because i lived in Indiana all my life and
wow yeah
you know you may say one see one or two guys on a bicycle that are above the age of fifteen or something but other than that it's nothing up there like it is down here
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yeah i'm not sure why that is i mean generally in the midwest it seems to be less much less i mean maybe it's because of the winters
probably
uh or maybe just because you know there's there's a lot more flat lands you know out in the west so it makes biking a better alternative for transportation
yeah
yeah and there's a lot of bikers around here it's it's really neat
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there are a lot of a lot of resources lot of magazines and stuff little Texas Bicyclist is like a newspaper that comes out every month
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and it's free you just go to the bike shock bike bike shop and pick it up and it's got all the rides coming up so i guess i'm gonna be busy about every Saturday this summer going to a different ride yeah see a little bit of Texas i've never seen before
oh that's terrific
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so uh how long have you been biking
oh i guess
as an adult for just about the past uh three years or so
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you know i guess the last time i did it before that was college which was about ten years ago and uh yeah i guess i just never really thought about it much for a while um
yeah
until i suddenly disevered all my friends were basically biking a lot and so i thought i'd try it too
have you ever had a uh it's kind of slightly off the subject but you ever had a uh a blood work up done recently or since you been biking to see if it because it really
no i haven't no
from what i understand it really improves your uh cholesterol and and you know it uh it kind of knocks you down two uh the big risk categories for coronary artery disease which is uh
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uh low cardiovascular fitness and also uh you know the cholesterol it gives you uh increased HDLs and decreases your LDLs yeah so
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oh that's great yeah i've i've definitely noticed it's had a good effect on my pulse rate my resting pulse you know it gets it down to about forty yeah
yeah
really that's good
yeah
you say you ride about a hundred hundred fifty miles a week man that's that's hard core when do you get to begin with the winters and all that
yeah
on average yeah
or what time of the year do you usually embark on your do you ride inside if you can't ride outside
no i'm not that hard-core i mean there are some people in fact there are a lot of people who'll ride outside in the snow they've got a uh mountain bike you know with the big knobby tires
yeah
and i don't do that i basically i i pretty much lay off for the winter uh-hum i was thinking of getting rollers for the last winter you know because it'll help your balance when you're indoor training
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um but but i just you know more or less stuck to like an exercise bike and that kind of thing um
but yeah i mean winters are kind of a problem so i'm more or less out of shape now that i've been biking i guess this year for just a couple of weeks
uh-huh
um but you know up here it's it's only stopped snowing since then uh
yeah
but yeah it's it's it's it's pretty good it's uh the main
the main thing i guess for me is just to enjoy it because once it starts seeming like you know exercise and a chore i'll lay off of it more
right
so you uh change up your routes a lot and keep a
oh yeah yeah i try to go someplace pretty different you know every week i rotate around um about four different routes
um from my house or i'll sometimes come in to school it's nice coming it's nice it's nice riding to school because it's all along a canal path
um because it's just it's along the Erie Canal up here uh University of Rochester
so what school is it
oh okay
yeah
so that's fairly picturesque and uh so it's it's it's a good ride as long as you're not doing it everyday it's a good ride
yeah
yeah that's true sounds neat it's kind of i was wondering if i was gonna
yeah
talk with someone that never has exercised before and doesn't want to and everything else but got a guy that rides a hundred and fifty miles a week that's something motivating
yeah
that's really good
well
well it was good talking to you
good talking to you and keep up the good work all right take care bye
okay you too
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