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Cycling with Darkwing Duck

If you follow me on dailymile, you may have seen that I’ve been cycling up a storm on my stationary bike. In fact, I’ve put over 140km on it since January, and that’s not counting the miles I put on it for the 5-10 minutes I use it to warm-up before my weights.

It was getting a little boring, and sometimes there’s nothing to watch on TV. I experimented playing PS3 while cycling, but couldn’t keep up the pace.

Playing PS3 while cycling. Seemed like a good idea at the time

So, I decided It would be a good idea to have some DVD’s handy. They would be a reliable form of entertainment and/or distraction while cycling. So, on Monday at Costco I saw this 3-DVD set of Darkwing Duck for only $8.99! 613 minutes of distraction!!

Darkwing Duck Volume 1 DVDs

Who’s Darkwing Duck? A Saturday morning cartoon character from my childhood I almost forgot about. He’s something of a cross between Donald Duck and Batman, with A LOT of other comic super-hero references thrown in. Oh, and he’s a Disney character. My love of Disney is well-documented. In fact, I even met Darkwing Duck during the Walt Disney World Marathon in 2013!

With Darkwing Duck himself while I was running the Walt Disney World Marathon in 2013!

So, cycling while watching TV turned out to be a pretty good experience. I biked 20km in 48 minutes and went through two episodes of Darkwing Duck.

POV shot from my bike

I still have about 570 minutes of Darkwing Duck left in this volume.

Special thanks to Alice who gave me bunch of her old DVD’s! Thank you so much Alice!