Biked back from Cambridge
Oct. 1st, 2017 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nosrednaydujJocelyn still has her Sunday morning circus thing in Somerville. I have a doctor's appointment midday in Cambridge tomorrow. So, I abandoned the car at Alewife and rode home. Very slow at the beginning as I referred to my phone and the paper google directions multiple times.
I ill-advisedly rode on a combination bike/pedestrian path around Fresh Pond, and there were a lot of obstacles -- people walking three abreast, dogs, children, other cyclists... So that was pretty slow too. I also got slightly lost trying to exit the path: google had shown a cutoff back to the road, but the first thing I saw looked like a tiny dirt track so I skipped it. The second thing I saw was slightly wider, but by then I was sure I'd gone far enough, so I took it, walked up a bit, and then out through a hole in a fence. Clearly THAT wasn't in Google's plan! And indeed I'd gone further than on the route. So I guess the first tiny track was the cutoff, or I just missed seeing it entirely.
I managed to make up some of the time when I finally got to roads I recognized, and out of the urban zone.
26.04 in 2:34 for an average of 10.1. If it had also counted time while stopped, it would have been way worse. I must have stopped at least once a mile for the first 5 miles, and then a few times after that.
Tomorrow I'll bike to the train, then to the doctor's office, and then to the car, a total of about 10 miles.
I ill-advisedly rode on a combination bike/pedestrian path around Fresh Pond, and there were a lot of obstacles -- people walking three abreast, dogs, children, other cyclists... So that was pretty slow too. I also got slightly lost trying to exit the path: google had shown a cutoff back to the road, but the first thing I saw looked like a tiny dirt track so I skipped it. The second thing I saw was slightly wider, but by then I was sure I'd gone far enough, so I took it, walked up a bit, and then out through a hole in a fence. Clearly THAT wasn't in Google's plan! And indeed I'd gone further than on the route. So I guess the first tiny track was the cutoff, or I just missed seeing it entirely.
I managed to make up some of the time when I finally got to roads I recognized, and out of the urban zone.
26.04 in 2:34 for an average of 10.1. If it had also counted time while stopped, it would have been way worse. I must have stopped at least once a mile for the first 5 miles, and then a few times after that.
Tomorrow I'll bike to the train, then to the doctor's office, and then to the car, a total of about 10 miles.
wan't google's plan
Date: 2017-10-05 03:19 pm (UTC)I have friends near Arlington Heights who use such a fence hole onto the Minuteman Bikeway for access almost daily.