I scored and got a bike for my birthday this year (thanks Katy!). The first ride was fun, but also miserable. I’m actually in pretty good shape right now, but the ride was still treacherous – I assume because it’s a new set of muscles to work out. I went for the second ride Monday and it was much better. Partially because my brain started working and I realized that I have a “camel back” from snowboarding, so I could carry some water with me. Filled that up, strapped it on and rode around, no longer parched the whole time. I was planning on riding near Troy’s house and back, thinking that would be long enough for workout #2. When I got near his house, I was just getting going, so I kept on moving. I ended up going through the highlands, back through piedmont park, then through Ansley and back home. It was about 40 minutes total, which is a time range that I’m happy with for right now.
I was wondering how far I went and googled around for a site where I could trace a map and find the distance, landing on gmap-pedometer.com . After putting in my route, the bike route Monday was just shy of 6 miles. Bah, that doesn’t seem far. Oh well. I planned a route for getting to Steelray (thanks to Brian for the help finding most of that)… here’s it is, about 8 miles. Now I just need to get a more stable schedule going so I can actually go to work there again (holidays + vacation = no set schedule, which is no fun for the mildly obsessive compulsive). The laptop is going to feel much heavier on that bike ride. Good thing it’s backed up periodically now, so when I fall and crush it, I can just buy a new one.