First 100 mile week in a while

[nosrednayduj]

I haven't had a chance to ride to or from work in ages, due a combination to meeting schedules, weather, and evening conflicts.

Jocelyn has a new circus class on Sunday mornings in Somerville, and needs to be driven there, because there's no train. So, this week I had the plan, drive her to Somerville, continue on to work, and then bicycle home! It was eerie at work -- I was the only car in the parking structure (thus scoring a parking place closest to the gym entrance), and there wasn't anyone in the building (I stopped in to use the restroom and put my lunch for Monday in the fridge).

It was cold and clammy at the start of the ride; wearing my fleece turned this into hot and muggy. Bleah. This may have contributed to my lame performance.

Today I rode in after an early morning meeting. (I'm kind of getting tired of all these morning meetings with Europe and Asia... Oh well. Gotta finish this before sleeping for tomorrow's early morning meeting!) More ordinary performance. I had a bit of a problem after a pit stop -- something I did in locking or unlocking the bike or moving it into or out of the bike rack disengaged the chain from the rear derailleur in a weird way that was really hard to disentangle. I was concerned at first that I'd completely broken the bike and would need to call for rescue, but I managed.

I added up my previous week's exercise mileage (with increasing size of error bar, since I hadn't recorded it, and had to just remember), and it got me to a hundred! Yay! Haven't had one of those in a while either. I'd wait and get accurate mileage for later, except we're getting a visit by the remnants of Jose and it'll rain all week.

Tuesday: 7 RT to bank
Wednesday: 13.8 RT to new yoga location
Thursday: 5.8 short exercise loop
Friday: 9.81 RT to other bank and store
Saturday: 14.48 RT to Mansfield library
Sunday: 25.64 in 2:28 for an average of 10.3
Sunday: 0.75 dorking around after adjusting front derailleur
Monday: 25.82 in 2:23 for an average of 10.8
Total: 103.1

Comments

[lauradi7dw]

Did Jocelyn walk home?

I am impressed by your ongoing mileage. I have gone all summer without having my bike chain fixed. Maybe I'll get around to it before it snows...

[nosrednayduj]

She took the train back to Sharon -- trains run in the afternoon Sundays -- and we picked her up.

I am behind my prior years to date mileage; I have 1750 YTD. Last year I had 2566 for the year; it might be tough to ride 800 more miles this fall.

[lauradi7dw]

Tuesday evening there was a slide show/talk at Cary Library by someone who cycled across the US in 1982, following the (then) Bikecentennial route. His daily mileage ranged from 22 miles one day to 120 something on a day that he was heading downhill out of Colorado. I think he said the average was almost 80/day. He regretfully said he couldn't manage more than a 50 mile day now (35 years later, for crying out loud). I think the most I ever did in my life was 20 in a day and I was a teenager then.