WOW, Am I Out of Shape

Tracking for Today's Usual Short Trip
Mercy.  Almost a full month since I last pedal-powered anything.
Mind you, I get exercise, and a couple hours or more, almost daily except (Maybe) Sunday.  The trouble is, it's the bending, squatting, lifting, and twisting back-hurting type of exercise that normally does not leave me huffing and puffing afterwards, even though I may hardly be able to walk:  Cutting firewood, running the chainsaw, chipping ice, shoveling snow, dragging sledfuls of cut wood up onto the deck and stacking it, yada, yada.  If I'm not huffing and puffing, regardless of the resultant pain and pill popping, I cannot consider it aerobic... which supposedly is the good stuff.
I fully realize the error of my ways, like most of we humans.  What with cold weather, snow, ice, mud, and worst of all, Christmas preparations... Humbug.  I have no shortage of excuses for not regularly riding.  Too busy to stay healthy and all that.
So, after  weeks of thinking "I need to do a few miles on the bike" and never getting around to it, today I decided I'd ride the 6 miles or so to the nearest ATM and deposit a couple of checks.  Jacque was busy on her latest Christmas project (MY Christmas projects consist of mostly cutting and stacking wood on the deck to be ready for the next snowfall) and thus encouraged me to ride by myself, taking my recumbent 2-wheeler, as well as the Traveling Tinkerbell Toy Dog.
As mentioned, I already was fully aware I was out of shape, but I am alarmed at how much.  About halfway to the post office, a mere 3 miles from my house launch-point, I was about shot, with not too much in the way of reserve motivation and energy.  I struggled on up to the PO (always snarling at the "NO Bicycles or Skateboards on Postal Property" signs), emptied out the mail box, threw away the pound or so of Christmas Thursday sale fliers and trash mail, and  came home.  Which has a satisfying couple miles of high speed downhill pavement... until you turn off on our goat-path private, unpaved road which now is spotted with several mud-bogs which coat man, beast, and vehicle with inches of muck as you pass through.  And, it's just boggy enough in several spots that I cannot ride the bike through it without sliding sideways and down, so I was forced to dismount and walk the bike, dog, and load through it.  All in all, good clean exercise.  Er, that is, good exercise.
Weather today satisfyingly sunny, plenty warm for mid-December, and a bit breezy.
I remind myself, again and again,  that daily riding is the only answer to such sluggishness....
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.1        Ending Voltage: 13.0
Lowest Temp  51 F      Highest Temp:  66 F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles:  5.55
Overall average speed            Moving Avg               Max Speed
 3.9 MPH                                6.4 MPH                    26.1 MPH
Total Trip time                       Moving Time             Stopped Time
1 hour 25 minutes                  51 mins  43 secs         33 mins 31 secs