It has been on the back of my mind for several years as something I would like to do. I only have a little music experience - a couple each guitar, piano, and theory classes back in community college just for fun but never got sucked in. I moved to the Bay Area for grad school and by the time I graduated I started doing Spartan Races. Then shifted gears to bike racing and got completely sucked into that. Hundreds of races over a few years. I don't intend to quit bike racing, but having only one thing I do every weekend until I die doesn't sound like a good idea. I've been really into listening to music for a couple years now. Yeah I'm always drumming on random things all the time, and I have decent rhythm but not the best ear for picking out a bunch of notes in a chord. And since I've been kinda thinking about learning drums for a while I figured I better just jump in and do it cuz it won't happen on its own!
But that's exactly what it does. You sit down and play along to songs that you like, its almost osmosis. You pick up grooves and fills by listening and trying to emulate. The happy mistakes you make, that lead to a new, to you, fill or rhythm, are what make you unique.