Cedric Richner is a Curb Your Car Month Ambassador. You can read more about him (and other Ambassadors) by clicking here.

He’s been writing a journal of sorts to some of his friends detailing his experiences participating in the Commuter Challenge and being an Ambassador. He recently sent this hilarious top ten list. Please read it with a sense of humor:

The Top Ten Reasons I Decided to be an Ambassador for the Commuter Challenge

10) I learned that it turns out that in the competition to be the country’s fattest state, it is good to be like number 49 or 50… not number 1.

9) Biking to work will give me a reason to wear spandex- legitimately, instead of holed up in my basement rec. room after the family has gone to sleep as usual.

8. I can finally participate in all of the great camp songs the bus drivers on the AATA lead riders in every morning.

7) Walking to work allows me the opportunity to be openly disdainful, and morally superior to everyone driving in their gas guzzling behemoths.

6) Did I mention the spandex?

5) $4.00 a gallon.

4) My mother’s voice in my head: “Do something constructive for once with your life will you!”

3) To keep Nancy Shore, the Challenge’s director, from getting canned.

2) Walking to the refrigerator for a Bud and a chicken pot pie does not constitute a cardiovascular workout.

1) We’re in tree town for God’s sake… you can’t drive