54.5 miles

[42itous]

Bike log for March 25-31:
2 trips from Arlington to Cambridgeport: 9 miles
3 trips from Arlington to Somerville: 13.5 miles
3 trips from Somerville to Cambridgeport: 7.5 miles
4 trips from Cambridgeport to Arlington: 18 miles
1 trip from Cambridgeport to Somerville: 2.5 miles
1 trip from Somerville to Arlington: 4 miles

Most of which was in heavy traffic, so I'd estimate that I spent about 6 hours riding in traffic this week, plus one more hour on quiet streets. My legs ar tired. :)

Comments

[hahathor.livejournal.com]

You go, girl! Now that it's getting nice, maybe you & I can take some two-wheeled field trips together. There's a lot of nice little 5-10 mile loops on relatively flat ground in the area, and it would be a great way for us to build stamina (and make ourselves even more callipygian than we already are).

[42itous.livejournal.com]

We should also bring not here. When he commutes to work, it's ten miles each way. But his commute is almost entirely on the bike path, and he doesn't like city riding.

[hoopdiver.livejournal.com]

Nice. A couple weeks ago I tried to count up all the biking I've done since I've been out here. Turned out I'd just passed 1000 miles. And I just realized I forgot to count the trips between home and Corteo. By now I've probably broken 1200. My poor bike.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

That's impressive. Do you take the hills as they come, or do you try to take the flatter route even if it is a little longer?

My most direct option for going to work in Somerville (in fact, the one that google maps recommends) involves climbing a hill. It's not steep, but the route goes along the crest of the hill (Highland Ave) for about a mile and a half. It would cut my commute by half a mile and probably four minutes (and it would mean I wouldn't have to turn left in Porter Square), but the hill means I generally avoid that route.

[hoopdiver.livejournal.com]

I avoid the hills, mostly. This means that the trip to the Circus Center is 4.1 miles there and 3.7 miles back, and would be 3.4 miles if I went on 17th St the whole way. But I'd have to be crazy to go that way — it's a bugger of a hill. I have a nifty map that shows steeply graded streets in shades of red.

[merilisa.livejournal.com]

That is fantastic! I admire that!

[zvalium.livejournal.com]

Sweet! All the riding I've been doing is on the stationary bike! I need to get myself back on that bike trail at some point soon!

Bicycle Made For Martha

[farkanator.livejournal.com]

At first I was thinking, "That's Disgusting."

And at second thought, I think, "That's Disgusting."

At third thought, I think, "Maybe Martha might like to do a trail with me this summer. I want to do the whole Emerald Necklace. I guess, start at the Franklin Park Zoo (which I have never visited), or start in the Boston Commons, but just work around Boston."

At fourth thought, I think, "That Muppet Movie, where Kermit and Miss Piggy are riding their bikes, and then everyone joins them. I can just see Kyle, Martha, Val and Mark, riding a bicycle made for four." (Was that the "Muppet Movie" or "The Great Muppet Caper"?)

At fifth thought, I think, "That's Disgusting! Aren't you sore?!?!"

At sixth thought, I think, "What would be sorer? Some part of the leg? Or would your bum be sorer? Hmmmmm."

I didn't have a seventh thought, I rested.

And my final thought involves you knitting/sowing/crocheting while on the bike. Not all at once, but just the idea of it.

Re: Bicycle Made For Martha

[zvalium.livejournal.com]

Eric - you're going to bike around the whole Emerald Necklace? I'd love to see that... err... I mean I'd love to bike that with you!! :P

I've never been to the Franklin Park Zoo either. perhaps this calls for a field trip sometime this summer as well as the Maize Maze....

Re: Bicycle Made For Martha

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, biking in unfamiliar territory frightens me. I've ridden in Boston once: from Back Bay station along Mass Ave into Cambridge, the day I brought my bike up from Providence on the commuter rail. Of course, Harvard Sq was scary the first few times I went through it, but now it's a routine part of my commute. It's amazing how much safer an are feels when you're familiar with it (you just have to remember that the drivers might not be as familiar as you are).

I'd love to try the Emerald Necklace with you sometime. Maybe when it's warmer, though.

In answer to your fifth thought, my bum used to get sore but then I got a better seat. Now it takes a lot of hard biking to make me sore, and then it's my legs and my lungs before anything else.