I like the recumbent bike because it doesn't put pressure on my lower back. I'm thinking of exercizing on it 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week. Are there any health risks associated with the recumbent (such as overuse injuries)? Thanks.

A: I live in an area where there is a high interest in actual long distance biking, so I know a bit about the subject.

The only thing that is really worrisome is if you go overboard and use it to much. Such as 2hrs or more a day, 5 days a week. Make sure the seat is well padded/cushioned. If it isn't, get a pad in the bike section of a local retailer.

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Fifteen miles I could do. Four hundred though? I hadn't been on a bike for 15 years. I didn't even own a bike. But when my daughter suggested the Erie Canal bike ride last fall, it sounded like fun. Fun in the far distant future, that is, like the next July.

In March, it was time to train, using one of those virtual reality exercise bikes. I'd select a course and follow an imaginary pacer up hills, along bluffs, or through the countryside (with virtual sheep and cows!) until I could do 12 miles in 40 minutes. That was kind of fun, in a sweaty way.

In April, it was time to buy a bike, and they sure had changed since my childhood Schwinn! Road bike, hybrid, comfort? And $490 for a couple of wheels? Ah, but the hybrid Specialized Vienna 1 was a beautiful machine that hummed along Watertown's Black River Trail at an easy 13 mph (according to my $30 speedometer, which also recorded mileage, time, calories burned).

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