Wednesday, May 28, 2008

A Moose on a bike - take two

Sunny and 70 degrees.  First day riding to work.  31 minutes to get there and 33:34 minutes to get back.  Not bad considering it is more up hill coming home.

Stats: (one way coming home)
Distance:  5.35 miles
Ave Speed:  9.5 mph (9.7 this morning)
Max Speed:  24.6 (topped 25 this morning)
Ave Speed including lights and two stops:  6.27 mph

Had to stop 2x coming home - first, my derailing didnt switch from 2 to 1 on the front gears when I was trying to go up the hill behind Lexington Mall.  I’ll have to go to Pedal the World and get them to adjust.  So, I stopped, walked to the top, drank some water and waited on the light to cross New Circle.  I could have made that one otherwise.  Not much fruther down the road though, I turned behind Regency center.  That’s a long hill that gets a bit steeper at the top.  Also there is a lot of pot holes and broken beer bottles, so I got off, walked up on the side walk, got water, and walked about 50’ to the top of the hill.

I need to get the handle bars raised about 3-4 inches as well.

I guess I have a base line.