Hello dear Steemians!
It´s Mers here once more sharing with you my latest sports activities the last couple of days. The signs of Fall are beginning now, nature will soon change its colors as we come to the official end of Summer in a week´s time. The schools are open now in our city and so are the fields where we bike are now empty. We have been enjoying sunny days and the temps are milder between 20°C - 27°C, it´s good to sleep in the cooler night at around 16°C. I have been trying to lose weight with plenty of walking and biking so this kind of weather is just fine. I would love to lose the kilos I´ve added the last 6 months and I would like to show you where I do my biking.
We are lucky to be living in the border of Lower Austria, our district is at the edge of the Marchfeld Kanal and this is where a lot of sports happen in the town called Gerasdorf bei Wien Oberlisse. The sports such as canoeing, horseback riding, biking, nordic walking, swimming are just a few what the locals are into. So the area is the best place to walk the dogs as the farmers open their dirty road for the locals to enjoy their activities.
Marchfeld is the area where all fresh vegetables in Vienna come from. They have quality crops and they fetch good prices at supermarkets, even higher than most crops coming from Spain, Italy and Holland. Marchfeld´s white, green and purple asparagus are well known in Austria because they are of very good quality.
The area that surrounds the Marchfeld Kanal is a hundred percent nature at its best where flora and fauna are in existence . There is a secret fishing area that some locals do not know about because it is a bit hidden by the bushes and trees. We enjoy going down there because it is a paradise-like island and very suitable to walk the dogs, a quiet place for hobby fishermen...sometimes a couple of people would pop-up and do their canoeing on the creek.
If I see wildflowers, I always stop to get some. Flowers are just there waiting to be picked. I have made so many beautiful wildflower arrangements that I will show in another blog post. This hobby became intense only when we got Lily, mom in-law´s chihuahua princess 3 years ago. I cut flowers from the open fields or along the biking route, gather them and make them into bouquets or put in vases.
I have some health issues on my lumbar spine and rheumatic legs and feet. I think these disorders have been caused by the long hours of sitting in front of computers at work. I was a corporate zombie and since retirement, I am compensating the lost time for sports. My Orthopedic suggested I go biking or brisk walking to train my bones. And so, I bike and sometimes brisk walk.
