100 Mile bike week, Lateef’s head doubles in size
Yep, I rode 5 times 20 miles this week. In fact, I rode Wednesday 22 miles in 1 1/2 hours (that is 14.5 miles an hour), which doesn’t sound like much but with traffic it takes almost an hour to drive. Ironically, Friday Melissa met me in Charlotte so we could return to Concord Halloween early, this however did not work out so well. With traffic it took 2 hours to drive home, it would have been faster to bike!
Lucky we built the house with a double door in the back because my head would not have fit though a single door. I strutted for 12 hours before I was smacked down to a pin head. I bumped into Aaron Newton at the farmers market and he pointed out that there is a guy in Washington State who rides 30 MILES EACH WAY TO WORK!! In the rain! Glory is short lived.
What is next? What other goals could there possibly be? Well there are two I can think of. The first is to do the route in 1 hour which would mean biking 20 miles per hour, including stop lights and traffic. The second is to do 200 miles. Both of these will probably not happen in the cold winter months but I can see spring time being fit enough to bike 200 miles. Might even get a better bike by summer so I can pick up the speed a bit.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Been looking for an office away from the house and biking in and back, but I’ve never been a bike person. I have no idea what is reasonable, nor if I’ll have the conviction to stick with it. So, I only want to start on a decent, but not professional used unit and I don’t know what’s reasonable. Was hoping you could give me a low and high so I know what to just pass on looking at.
I think it would take me some time to be able to keep up the daily miles you’re logging.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
the only thing larger than your head will be your massive calves. good job on staying with it.