Hey, if this were baseball, I’d be the star! But it’s not baseball: it’s me trying to set goals that I can achieve. Since there is “always something” (isn’t there?) I’ve decided to aim for biking to work 50% of the time. This allows me to account for days when I have client meetings (today I had 4!), really bad weather, and (for now) getting the right muscles to the right level without overdoing it. Frankly, I’m not proud of that decision, but feel ok about it. Luc’s brother, though, made me feel a whole lot better when I spoke to him earlier tonight. I simply told him that I was trying to bike to work every other day, and he was very impressed and said so. That made me much better about things, and helped me rationalize my decision (for better or for worse). In the end, I’ve been comparing myself to my friend and colleague Wendy, who jogs to work from the train station (she used to bike, until the SNCF decided not to allow bikes on the rush hour commuter trains) and is now training for a marathon. In retrospect, I might have been shooting a little high for someone that doesn’t recall biking anywhere since I had the Red Max (I tried to find a photo online, but couldn’t) that I won in a draw in elementary school. So now I’m comparing myself to baseball players, and thinking that batting .500 ain’t too bad at all 
ps. I’m only batting .500 if we accept that biking into town on Saturday makes up for not biking to work Thursday or Friday (indulge me, please!) AND means that I have to bike tomorrow (I think I can, I think I can, I think I can).
