If sitting still and observing the thoughts that come up puts your nerves on edge that's ok, just let that happen. Meditation is just about making space to observe without judgemenr or without trying to change things. Just let things be.
I like to keep my Trek, the white one in my pics as light as possible. If I come across a very steep section off-road, I prefer to carry rather than push. When I did Snowdon I carried it most of the way up, That was back in the nineties when I was doing lots of mountain biking. Did most of the big routes in The Lakes and The Peak District. all on my Trek, which I'm still using as you can see from my pics.
The TPT runs past my house in Stockport, I sometimes follow the River Mersey section to the Bridgewater Canal then on to Lymm, returning along the TPT. The section you mentioned towards Glossop is the Longenden Trail, it ends in Hadfield. It's difficult to make a circular ride out of it though. If you go from Penistone towards Woodhead you can leave the TPT, head towards Langsett and go around Langsett reservoir. This route takes you past a place called North America...I kid you not.....
I think the Trans Pennine Trail runs near to you. There's a really nice section going through Penistone towards the Woohead Pass. If you have a good mountain bike you can head off to Derwent Valley via the fantastic but demanding Cut Gate track. Not one for the feint hearted though.... You can then join up with the Snake Pass and head back on a really quiet and remote road through the village of Strines. A fantastic day in the saddle.
I try to stay off road as much as possible, try to get out every day. Right now I'm cycling alongside the Ashron Canal in Manchester.i'll go back on an old disused railway line called the Fallowfield Loop, or Floop as it"s often called. It will be a short ride, about 10 miles, but even though I started off from the centre of Stockport, almost all of it will be off road.
It makes you wonder how much more popular womens football would be if it hadn't been banned for so long. It's really come a long way over the last few years though.
Humanity has evolved to master the natural world, but at a cost. There's an undercurrent of insanity running through our species and paradoxically, as a society, the more technologically advanced we become, the more insanity takes over. Eckhart Tolle put it quite succinctly in his book A New Earth...
"The collective manifestations of the insanity that lies at the heart of the human condition constitute the greater part of human history. It is to a large extent a history of madness.
If the history of humanity were the clinical case history of a single human being, the diagnosis would have to be: chronic paranoid delusions, a pathological propensity to commit murder and acts of extreme violence and cruelty against his perceived “enemies” – his own unconsciousness projected outward. Criminally insane, with a few brief lucid intervals."
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RE: Meditation
If sitting still and observing the thoughts that come up puts your nerves on edge that's ok, just let that happen. Meditation is just about making space to observe without judgemenr or without trying to change things. Just let things be.