It’s supposed to be 77 today and 70 tomorrow. Fantastic riding weather for Feb. I got to work at 7:00 this morning to leave earlier to ride like Wed. Been looking forward to this all week.
Archive for February, 2009
A Good Bike Day
Friday, February 6th, 2009My First Attempts at Riding a Bike for Transporation in Amarillo
Sunday, February 1st, 2009With the arrival of the Dahon D7 folding bike I was looking forward to commuting to work. And I spent a lot of time sunday night outfitting it with a back, bungee cords, spare tube, pump, lights, a bell, etc. Monday morning was 15F. That kind of killed my gumption. Then it snowed Tuesday. We have had snow precisely once this season. Wednesday warmed up quite nicely to 50F and when I got home I loaded up the bike and rode a practice ride to work. Doing things like checking the route, traffic, street width and direction, etc. The results were encouraging. I arrived in 45 minutes completely soaking through my shirts. On the way back I got lost and checked out a back up route across the train tracks, which took an hour and 20 minutes. The longer story is here.
Thursday, I rode to yoga. The double mat fits well with three bungee straps. I was about 5 minutes late. It takes 30 minutes to get there and not 20. So, I got to practice in my windbreaker pants. Very hot. Literally. I start sweating in yoga at the 20 minute mark and this time I was already primed. My clothes were we for 2 hours. Yoga lasts an hour and it took 45 minutes to get home. Cycling at the end of the day can really take it out of you.
Friday, jean day, I got up at 6:00 and left at 6:50 expecting a 45 minute trip..
Continued on the next post.