It's a nice hobby…..

DH has had to get in a couple extra bike rides in this weekend. Making me very lonely, and when I am lonely I call my Mom. So she hears from me when ever DH is away on a ride.  So unfortunately my Mom feels he must always be out away from home because he always is when ever I call here.  My MIL & my Mom have both commented on DH and his hobbies. Now granted he has allot ;-)  When he started bike riding his Mom said to him "You and your hobbies. You always have to have all the accessories to go with them." Then looking at me and telling me how he's been this way since he was little. Everything he does he has to have all the gadgets and stuff to go with it. This is a very true statement.  When I was talking to my Mom yesterday, I was justifying how DH has the STP coming up and he works next weekend so he has to get some miles on the saddle.  Then I started thinking how people always, including me, treat DH bike riding as a hobby. I hear hobby and I have almost a negative reaction to the word. Not that I think hobbies are bad but I feel if something is a hobby your not serious about it and you could really take it or leave it.  I then asked my self if I consider running a hobby?  I really don't because it is about my health. I need to be serious about it, I need to not take it or leave it, I need this to get healthy.  So why would I consider DH bike riding a hobby, maybe because he enjoys it so much, lol!  But I think in time I will enjoy running. Before my back injury it was a habit and the first week of being told I can't run for two weeks was really hard to not get on that treadmill.  It's not a hobby it is a healthy life style.