(I don’t have any good photos that correspond to biking, so there’s no picture in today’s entry. Sad.)
I haven’t updated in a while, so I figured it was a good time to do so.
Today is the second day this week that I’ve biked to work. Now that it’s not oppressively hot, I should be able to do this more often. My goal for next week is to ride all four days (I’m taking Monday off so that Carrie and I can go to Six Flags.)
I’ve been mixing my route up a bit. On Tuesday I rode home on the lakefront path instead of taking the streets. And this morning I rode that way in.
It adds a little over 3 miles to the commute (on streets it’s 6.9 miles, on the path it’s 10.7), but door-to-door it’s only about ten minutes longer (due to the fact that I can go faster on the path, plus there’s no stopping for most of the ride).
It’s definitely a great way to go home – as long as I leave work by 2:30 and miss all the jackasses strolling along the path four-abreast. It’s great to be able to scoot along at a faster clip without being interrupted – plus, there are much fewer girls in bikinis on Lincoln Avenue than at North Avenue Beach :)
On the way in it was a different story – much windier, so my average speed dropped from 15 mph to 9. Slowed me down a lot, but it was still fun.
Today I’m watching the weather – we’re supposed to get some pretty strong storms around 3 PM. So I figure if I leave work by 2, I should be safe. I don’t really want to ride home in high winds and torrential downpour!