I have to admit, you get a certain sense of smugness when stationary cars have to watch you ride on past while their road rage creeps higher. I tried cycling and walking every day this week for my More More Tip #2.<\/p>\n
I had trouble at the start of the week, as I underestimated how long it takes me to walk to uni, resulting in a fast walk and a stressed out 3 minute late arrival to my lecture. This day happened to be the day everyone decided to attend and getting a bad seat meant cricking your neck for 50 minutes. So lesson learnt on day one, give yourself 5 minutes more than you think you’ll need.<\/p>\n
By day 2, I was looking forward to listening to a new album on the walk in and spent the rest of the day humming along.<\/p>\n
Day 3 I got the bike out, a cheap model gifted for uni. After dusting off the cobwebs and checking the brakes, off I went. Another lesson learnt, know where your local bike racks are. After a quick search, I discovered my workplace actually has some behind the building which I was pleasantly surprised by. On the way home my feet were sore and I looking forward to dinner so I went whizzing past rush hour and got home in record time.<\/p>\n
The rest of the week was fairly uneventful, I walked everyday and started to enjoy blocking out the world with my music before starting the day. Less stress of the road, more thinking time about what I need to do my next essay on. My biggest challenge was timing to make sure I wasn’t late, but the great thing about walking\/cycling is, I can go as fast or slow as I want. No more searching for parking spaces, I saved money on fuel and parking charges, and the biggest win was watching angry drivers beep their horns at each other while I passed on by. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Helen Gardner Y3 Applied Art & Marketing.<\/p>\n
Walk or cycle this week and see how small changes to your lifestyle can\u00a0improve\u00a0your health and wellbeing.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have to admit, you get a certain sense of smugness when stationary cars have to watch you ride on past while their road rage creeps higher. I tried cycling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[626],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-move-more"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"James Cook","featuredImage":false,"postExcerpt":"I have to admit, you get a certain sense of smugness when stationary cars have to watch you ride on past while their road rage creeps higher. I tried cycling […]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}