Scientists don't just dig the lab. Einstein had the violin, the piano, and copious womynz. Feynman had his bongo's, and Arthur Eddington, of the UK, had cycling. In fact, Eddington even formulated a cycling metric, the Eddington Number: From Wikipedia:
Eddington number (cycling) Eddington is credited with devising a measure of a cyclist's long distance riding achievements. The Eddington Number in this context is defined as E, the number of days a cyclist has cycled more than E miles.[9][10] For example an Eddington Number of 70 would imply that a cyclist has cycled more than 70 miles in a day on 70 occasions. Achieving a high Eddington number is difficult since moving from, say, 70 to 75 will probably require more than five new long distance rides since any rides shorter than 75 miles will no longer be included in the reckoning. Eddington's best E-number is a very impressive 84.[11]
I'm disappointed that limmerickman hasn't already posted about this.