Still Riding...

It was a fairly quiet commute last week. Friday evening I went directly to the in-law's house on Harvard after work. The most direct route was to take Ninth Street up to Iowa. That pretty much sucked. I crapped out after the last stop light at Emery Road, halfway up the hill. I got off the bike after that, crossed over and walked up the side walk. At the top of the hill, I took Sunset over to Harvard and then took Harvard across Iowa and down to the in-law's house. When I left there, I went back up Harvard to Iowa and took the Iowa side walk to 23rd and then the 23rd sidewalk to Atchison. It is a bit easier than climbing the up the hill on Lawrence Ave. All in all, it added about a mile to my commute. And it is doable; I might be looking for alternate routes, however.

Since I'm going to have to tackle that hill anyway, it might be best to go through campus...

250 miles YTD

Just Riding...

I've been able to ride every day this week. Yesterday, I fit in my dentist appointment prior to work. The goal for Spring and Summer is to replace more car trips with bike trips. The work commute is going fine. Now it is time to start running errands and appointments on the bike.

Like everything else, I'm trying to be realistic about this. If I'm taking the recyclables to Walmart, I won't be taking the bike and trailer. But if I need to pick-up some things on the way home, I'm going to start planning to make those trips by bike.

231 miles YTD

Feeling Better

I've been up and down lately with this, that or the other thing. Mostly it was a run-down feeling, a head-cold. Then last week, my sore-throat came back (which never happens) and the wife and daughter were diagnosed with Strep on Wednesday. I biked to work on Thurs., but started feeling pretty bad by mid-morning. The doctor's office just called in a Z-PACK rather than actually see me. So, I biked over to Wal-mart and then home. Stayed home on Friday as well.

So, I figure I did about 150 miles in January. February will definitely NOT be much better than that, as I have only ridden the bike 5 days so far. But, I'm feeling better and we'll see what happens the rest of the month.

195 miles YTD