From Cranky to Cranking
This morning, I got up really early, got into my riding clothes, ate a little breakfast, watched the TV weather for a while to see if I would need my MidZero tights or the lighter weight Matrix I’ve been riding in lately, and headed downstairs, ready for the eleven mile commute to work. I checked the tire pressure, climbed aboard, clicked in, and started to push off. I watched my cyclometer. It registered zero to the end of my driveway. Okay, maybe it’s not on there squarely.
So, after about twenty minutes of trying to jimmy the damn thing on enough to get the mount to signal the cyclometer that I was, in fact, moving the front wheel, I realized that the cyclometer mount was screwed. So, I put the bike away, rummaged around my tornado debris to find some car keys, and drove to work. I hate driving to work. It makes me extremely grumpy.
After taking only fifteen minutes for lunch, I bailed from work at 3:30, got home just before four, and rode the bike—nonworking cyclometer and all—down to my local shop. Yes, they have three or four Cat Eye mount kits that work perfectly with my cyclometer. So, finally, at about 4:30 or so, I was on the road on my real vehicle.
I decided to ramble around Menlo Park, down Junipero Serra/Foothill Expressway, turn around at Outfitter, head back, and loop around through Atherton and West Menlo Park to close out my required mileage. After pacing a group of cyclists for a few miles and playing chase with a girl in a Webcor kit, I ran out of daylight at Page Mill with seventeen miles to go. My chart requires 34.51 miles per weekday this week, so I determined to get all my miles. I stomped around the Watkins block to get my last couple of miles and arrived home well after dark. Damn, look at those numbers. Did I do that? Holy smokes!
Today: 35.02 mi; 1:47:35 (19.5 mph avg; 33.5 mph max)
March: 488.59 mi; 26:14:27 (18.6 mph avg; 39.0 mph max)
2005 : 1543.25 mi; 83:14:57 (18.5 mph avg; 43.0 mph max)
Goal : 5000.00 mi (3456.75 mi to go : 30.87% complete)
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