On 2008-05-09, N8N <njnagel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> That's the thing, it's not my personal endurance, it's the time
> factor. I feel like I could ride more, but I have stuff I want to get
> done around the house, on various mechanical contrivances, etc...
> that's why I was thinking of trying commuting even though the route
> seems suicidal, it seems to be the only way to get more distance in.
Have you used google maps, especially the sat. images to see if there
are decent alternate routes? My bicycle route to work only has a small
milage penalty but in return only two short sprints on arterial roads
over a ~9.5 mile route. The rest is all residential, school zone, and a
tiny bit of bike trail. Oh and then cutting through a park, a short bit
of off-road there to go from one parking lot to the other.
When I rode to work one morning and found construction workers wouldn't
let me pass through the closed road (something that usually is doable on
bicycle) I used google sat images to find a detour via a decaying, but
short bike trail that connected two subdivisions. When I got there it
was chained off... but I just went around the posts. There should have
been a road there anyway.
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