eldan_bike (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} eldan_bike) wrote,@ 2005-05-16 23:38:00 |
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Weekly progress
Miles ridden last week (up to and including Sunday): 41¾ (of course, the ¾ is the most important part)
Lengths swum: 24
Target for last week: 30 miles
I've already done 11 miles today, so I think I'm going to jump to a 40-mile target this week, missing out the 35. If this gets out of hand before I leave Cleveland I can always stop increasing the targets at 60 or so, but then I used to cover 70 miles a week just commuting to work when I lived in Bristol, so maybe it's not that unrealistic. And man was I noticeably fitter at the end of that 4 month internship than at the beginning....
I think I'm also going to start escalating targets for the swimming, but slowly because 24 lengths was pushing myself last week. So I'll go for 25 this week, and so on.
Road observations:
Miles ridden last week (up to and including Sunday): 41¾ (of course, the ¾ is the most important part)
Lengths swum: 24
Target for last week: 30 miles
I've already done 11 miles today, so I think I'm going to jump to a 40-mile target this week, missing out the 35. If this gets out of hand before I leave Cleveland I can always stop increasing the targets at 60 or so, but then I used to cover 70 miles a week just commuting to work when I lived in Bristol, so maybe it's not that unrealistic. And man was I noticeably fitter at the end of that 4 month internship than at the beginning....
I think I'm also going to start escalating targets for the swimming, but slowly because 24 lengths was pushing myself last week. So I'll go for 25 this week, and so on.
Road observations:
- North Park has deteriorated significantly since last summer.
- Legacy Village is evil, and their lamp-posts are apparently too good to have a prole like me chain my bike to one, so security came along to order me to move it, seeing as this is the most serious misbehaving they have to deal with on the mean streets of Beachwood.
- In their defence, at least Legacy Fortress do provide some bike parking, which however out of the way and non-obvious it is already makes them better for cyclists than the other malls in the area.
- Riding in the middle of the lane like I'm supposed to doesn't get me more shit from impatient drivers than pulling meekly to the right. However, it does keep me away from the worst parts of most roads, and make drivers actually overtake me properly instead of trying to squeeze past frighteningly. I wish I had listened to this advice sooner.
- A bike does have enough metal to trigger an actuated traffic light, provided I ride directly over the cut in the road where they buried the sensor.
