• STILL NOT DEAD
• didn't get off bike to walk up any hills today
• still hate hills, hills are assholes
• also hello shoulder pain, I remember you, this is sooner than I expected you
• apparently I'm getting one trip per day in the dry which means it will rain at 4pm on the dot

So I have achieved day 3! My most optimistic predictions suggested that I would have missed at least one day or given up by now, given that a) Bike to Work Week in Vancouver generally means five convenient days of unceasing torrential downpour and b) biking to work means bypassing Tim Hortons. But this morning I still got on the bike and did it, so ( Read more... )

So I just rode my bike to work for the first time in 1.5 years.
(One could argue it was the first time I rode my bike to work voluntarily. My last (terrible, no good, very bad) job started at 5am and it was the only way to get there.)

It was okay! Though I think the cycleroute planner engine and I disagree about what constitutes a 5% grade.
But I ( Read more... )

I rode my bike 10 kilometers today. Well; 10 each way, so actually 20 kilometers. Not because I particularly wanted to - more because I wanted to see if I could. Answer: yes. Second answer: ow, my legs.

I've been running more or less regularly, by which I mean "three times a week." Ever since the revelation that many of my pants no longer fit, I' ( Read more... )

So, trip home took about the same as trip there, plus about fifteen minutes of Lost as I somehow managed to miss Trout Lake Park entirely when Gladstone Trail suddenly ended. Took a different route home than there, which was better in that it had fewer gentle inclines and worse in that instead it had one or two really big ones. Ah, well. Got off ( Read more... )

Have just ridden bike from home to school, and am not dead! According to CycleVancouver, I covered a distance of 8.6km that going 15kph should have taken me about 35 minutes. I think it actually took me more like an hour and twenty minutes, but I think that's probably because I was by no means doing 15kph the whole way (maybe 5kph?). I had to stop ( Read more... )

On a Hooray-I-Got-My-Tax-Rebate spree, I am ordering Thoughtcrimes and Dog's Breakfast (because despite going to two of DH's screenings here in Vancouver, I still haven't actually managed to buy a copy) and a few other things, which led me to YouTube - because whenever I order a DVD online I am immediately seized by Great Impatience to not wait ( Read more... )