I have talked a bit about swimming, now I will tell you about the bike.  I started riding a stationary "life cycle" for the first month but it didn't really feel like I was riding a bike.  I mentioned this to a good friend of mine "Uncle Dave" and he offered to send his old bike to me...in the mail.  The roads here are not good enough to ride a road bike on so I opted to buy an indoor trainer.  This was the first one I had ever used and I chose a CycleOps Fluid 2 after reading multiple reviews.  It was a great value and turned out to be a good trainer as well.

I started riding 30 - 45 minutes at a time a listening to my Ipod, I even made a cycling playlist.  But as I increased to an hour I realized I needed something more to occupy my mind.  I was riding an our supply room (the office was too cramped).  I ended up using my laptop to watch movies and it worked well.

Now I can ride up to four hours and it isn't so bad.

You should try it :)

 Aaron