Please share your wisdom with a newbie..

[shootingstar]

Motivators:

Comfortable clothing, high visibility.

Bike that functions and fits well.

Several choice routes that know by heart..routes that you like to do frequently. It's good to have fitness-oriented route and a simpler, shorter route for days you're feeling crappier/weather is abit ugh. It really helps that part of the route is quiet/scenic/soul-inspiring.

Over time, know when you ride/perform the best on bike. I ride best early in the morning..when the sun is rising, dew is still on the grass, mist is burning off around the mountain tops -- not as enthused in blazing heat at high noon or later. And do it during that time, even if it means by yourself sometimes.

Not lose cycling memory in my cycling legs/muscles. Well, any cyclist enthusiast should know this one..

Cycling is sort of like a secondary source of the Muse for me. Really. What you see, feel, hear and smell on bike..you can write poetry, paint, photograph.... can say that about...football?

Another motivator...is getting going means that natural cycling drug..high five, one more time, baby!

**Of course, a motivator for me is that if I don't go grocery shopping on bike, that means alot less food at home ..since we don't have a car.