have you changed your life for cycling?

[KnottedYet]

Yay, Jeni!

(and I think you left out one of the best changes you got by starting biking!)

[jobob]

Well, I *didn't* change my life on account of cycling, does that count?

A few years ago Lee & I thought we'd like to move up to the Northwest, either near Seattle or Portland. No reason in particular besides the fact that we like it up there and thought it would be a nice change.

I started to routinely watch the empoyment ads for work up that way (I'm a patent agent at a biotech company, and there are quite a few biotech companies particularly around Seattle).

Then we started biking. And, we liked it obviously.

One day a year or so ago, I came across a posting for a job up in Seattle that had my name written all over it. I was thrilled to bits to come across it and I started digging up my resume, when it occurred to me "but ... I don't want to leave here!"

We moved here well before we started biking, but as it turns out, we happen to live in a wonderful area for cycling. We live very near the Alameda Creek trail and Coyote Hills park, which is about 28 miles round trip and is great for morning rides, and is usually our starting point for longer rides. We can go on very scenic rides directly from our home (Calaveras, Alum Rock Park and Mt. Hamilton to name a few destinations to the south of us, or we can head across the bay over the Dumbarton Bridge into Woodside and other great routes on the SF Peninsula), and other great rides in Marin, the Almaden Valley, Napa and Sonoma are only a short drive away.

I talked to Lee about it, and he admitted that he too wasn't very interested in moving, now that we started biking.

We haven't ruled out moving up to the PNW someday, just not right now, we still enjoy the biking around here too much - not to mention all the great friends in the area we've made through biking and TE ... you know who you are.

[TrekJeni]

Yay, Jeni!

(and I think you left out one of the best changes you got by starting biking!)

I think Knotted Yet is refering to the fact that I now date the greatest guy who's family owns the LBS. He just bought me a mountain bike for Xmas. Rode Sunday and supposed to ride today if the weather holds. A lot of the same interests and we've been riding friends for almost two years.

Little did I know that he had liked me for a long time. Never once hinted, alluded, or tried anything with me while I was still with the ex and we've ridden hundreds of miles together. He's an Eagle Scout (no really) and a gentlemen.

Jeni