Sunday, August 10, 2008

Here we sit

So here we sit on a cloudy day doing nothing much. Part of me wants to go out and jump on the bike and hit the road for a long ride. But the other part of me is enjoying being lazy. Over the last week I was not able to ride as much as I wanted but I did get to ride. Lets be a happy about that.

My family and I are getting ready to move again. And that really sucks. On a good note is that I will be closer to work, but it is also a bad thing. Being closer will allow me to ride more often no matter what the weather is doing. The bad is that I will not get very many miles in. I will be like 3 miles from work. So I have been thinking about how to add a mile or two to the ride.

Right now I ride 6 miles to the bus stop. So at the end of the day I get 12 miles. Now I will only get 6 miles a day. It is better then nothing. At least my fuel bill will be very little if I have to drive. And being that it will only be 3 miles or so I will be able to leave the house later and still make it to work, and I will not spend as much time getting home either. This is the part that I like the most.

It is talked about by those that commute a lot that anything under 5 miles, I think and it is faster to be on a bike then it is so drive. I know that I can hold a pace of 16 mph for 6 miles. The ride now take me about 22 min. So I cut the distance in half and I cut the time in half. 11 min to get from home to work. Not even enough time to get my heart rate up and going good. Now that I think about it, it takes me 10 min or better to get through traffic and get to the new house. So I will be doing the same on the bike. Plus we all know that us pedal guys can cut a few corners and make up time. The only thing that I am not going to like is that I will have to look for more time to ride. Hopefully I will be able find that time and spend it with my family out riding, because I will be closer to them. Well I am going to get going. Maybe soon for a ride.