Lockdowns and pandemics, it’s all so 2020.
As we close in on a New Year and we’re putting more distance between COVID-19 and the future, I have to admit there are a few things I actually miss about surviving my first world pandemic.
While I am continually reminded of the extreme lifestyle changes we all underwent in order to keep our communities safe, and will never forget the losses that the pandemic brought, there were some positives that came with emerging from the other end of the tunnel.
Of course, I’m not saying I would ever want to go through that again, but there are some key lifestyle changes that came out of my 90 days in the hole.
First off, I signed up for HBO, and was able to binge-watch “Games of Thrones,” “The Sopranos,” and “Breaking Bad” in a string of all-nighters that usually ended with, “just one more episode, honey?”
Like many pent-up cyclists, I rediscovered the joys of indoor training. Well, I don’t know if joy is the right word, but like just a lot of other bike geeks out there, I set myself up with my first indoor trainer in decades, and spun away the lockdown blues.
In fact, there are other new, non-cycling-related habits that I picked up during the darkest days of COVID-19 that I am determined to stick with that have not only helped my overall state of mind, but have helped me become a better cyclist. A morning stroll pays back in surprising ways. (Photo: Getty […]
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