When Daylight Savings Time ended a month ago, I thought I’d have to cut my cycling back a little bit to accomodate the much shorter days. But, I started getting up at 4 in the morning, riding to work at 6, and just trying for 28.52 miles on weekdays and a longer ride on Saturday. […]
I created a simpler chart a while ago with equal-length weekdays and a long ride on Saturdays to accomodate five-day workweeks during Daylight Savings Time, which around here means the sun sets quite early. I call it my 3:1 (25%) Training Schedule. As with any exercise program, I am not responsible if you try this […]
Dayamn. After my long-awaited purchase of my delicious new Trek 520 last weekend, I did all of my miles this week on the Trek. Before this week, I had averaged 30 kph on exactly one ride ever. This week’s total average speed over 212+ miles was faster than that. Being on, as a friend of […]
Goodness gracious. Yesterday, I tried the auto stop-and-start feature of my cyclometer for the first time. I had found myself piddling along for the first couple of miles in the mornings, trying to find enough light to get the tenth flip to calibrate it with the trip meter. It goes like this: I start out, […]
After taking delivery on my new love yesterday, I got her all ready for this morning’s commute. I headed out of the house at 6 am, rode for about 40 minutes through the dark. I averaged just about as fast as my fastest 5 am commute on the hybrid, but I was just trying to […]
Today, I went to get the Trek. I realized that, to get to the Outfitter, I’d need to ride two VTA busses. So, I gathered up all the things I’d need to ride the new bike home, and tossed them all into a backpack, put a pair of pants on over my cycling clothes, and […]
After I finished my ride, I came home, got showered and dressed, and jumped on the Caltrain to go to Audience, a party at Deep in San José. Tonight’s shindig featured UNEAQ, who ripped it up as they always do. The venue, Deep, was once Club Ecco (back in 1999), far more of a techno/house […]
Today’s ride was another half-century (50 mile) ride in familiar territory (yeah, I need to create more routes, so I have a little variation in my routine). Right in the middle of the ride, I stopped at The Bicycle Outfitter to test-ride the bike they assembled at my request yesterday. I rode for about three […]
This morning, a full week before Thanksgiving and despite an injury month off the bike because of an inattentive driver, I reached my 2004 cycling goal of 4000 miles. The odometer clicked through 4000 near Middlefield and California in Palo Alto. The 4000th actual mile came as I rolled past 835 Maude Avenue in Mountain […]
I jumped on the train after I grabbed something to eat and took a cab to Swedish-American Hall for Fray Day 8. I saw lots of people I used to know, but I didn’t talk to very many of them. There were lots of great stories, most of them really funny. Someday, I will have […]
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