Kevin and I went on a bike ride on a trail close to my neighborhood this evening. After I huffed and puffed through it, we've decided we'll need to ride it every day to work on getting in shape if I'm ever going to ride my bike to work! We really enjoyed the ride. It's not too long of a bike trail, but long enough to give you a work out. I'm not so good with the hills, and just a little ways up the first, very very VERY slight hill my thighs were burning! Clearly I'm not in the best of shape, but I haven't ridden a bike since before I moved out of my old house. That was almost six years ago, and then plus some! 
Kevin was having a lot easier time than I was. He use to ride his bike all the time, but I was surprised he did so well since he hasn't ridden his bike very often, if at all since we started dating over two and a half years ago. His body hasn't quite flaked out on him as mine has. But! There are goals to get to! I'm not going to set any time limit on this, but I hope soon to be able to ride all the way around that bike trail without stopping. Except of course when we need to cross the street and all that.
I'm very excited to be able to work up to the point of riding around that trail multiple times. It was quite a beautiful ride. We left about 8:00 pm so we didn't endure the full blown heat of the day. By the time we got around to the top of the trail the sun was setting and we had a gorgeous site that we rode under.
The sun had made the sky a magnificent pinkish-red color. Awesome.
We have determined ourselves to ride almost everyday. I also decided it would be good to keep a log of our journey on my blog. Tomorrow I will take down the time it takes to get around the bike trail, and I'll try and keep getting the time of every go around and see how much we improve each time. I'll also try and figure out how long it is around. It's probably something lame like a quarter of a mile. I hope not! :)
Stay tuned!
~Taylor~
The Bike Chronicles: Day 1