I'm deciding between cycling everywhere in the future or keeping a car as well as going to a gym to keep in shape.. the latter more common but there's something off putting about getting in my tin air conditioned box and going to a public concrete air conditioned box to work up a sweat. A lack of nature but a sense of lower risk of getting hit by a car somehow.. hmm
It depends where you live but there is a third way, cancel the gym, buy some running shoes. I've got a range of routes worked out over the last few years between 3 and 6 miles. Usually spend about an hour 5 times a week doing it. Running has much greater health benefits than cycling as long as you get good shoes and don't knacker your knees.
But it depends if where you live is somewhere you're happy to run. I'm lucky in that I'm a mile from a foresty commission forest so I just run down the road to it then pick a route depending on how I'm feeling about hills/distance that day. Tbf I know the place backwards given I used to downhill mtb through it. It's a lot more relaxing than sweating with 30 others in a clammy room.
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