Dan Mayer's Blog

I just passed 600 miles on my silly glider and I love it!

For those that know me, they know I have developed some sort of irrational love of my glider. Perhaps it is because it was one of the first things I built on my own that I actually used. Perhaps because I got it with a goal to loose weight and partly because of my glider I now weight less than my goal weight. Perhaps, because it has moved house to house with me since I left college. Perhaps, because everyone seems to mock it for how crappy it is, falling apart, that it counts miles to quickly, and that it is now held together with duck tape. Finally maybe I like it because when I am on it, I think of my grandfather who every day for over 20 decades would ride his stationary bicycle for 10 miles or so to keep in shape. Who knows why, but I had a great dream in my mind of eventually crossing 1000 miles on that thing before it fell apart. It hasn't completely fell apart, but I am now moving somewhere far to small to keep it around and it really doesn't make sense to transport it again as I doubt it could really survive another move. But I knew I had to make one last milestone before we left, so I started setting my sites on 600 miles a few weeks ago, and today I accomplished my goal with my glider partner. Yes to all those out there that hate my glider, I know my 600 miles wasn't real miles, and that I didn't burn near the calories that it would lovingly lie to me about burning, but it still felt pretty good to glide past that last mile.

I am moving to Boulder in 2 days, almost everything I own is in boxes and I am starting to clean everything. Today we donated a bunch of books to the Denver Library and a bunch of random stuff to the Salvation Army. It was great to do some good, while really clearing out the house.