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

[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.