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I've Got Something to Say
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Time: 00:36:00
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Distance:
7.56 miles
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Max Speed:
24.50 mph
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Avg Speed:
12.50 mph
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Altitude Gain:
0 ft
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Route:
home-work (Page Ave)
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Weight:
240
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Category: general: commute -
solo
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Terrain: Road: Hills
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Bike: Fuji Supreme 700c Hybrid
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Club: Commuter Cycling Century |
| Weather Conditions: 34 degrees (feels like 34)
Wind: Calm
Humidity: 89%
Mostly cloudy, w/some frost on the ground |
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Time: 00:56:44
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Distance:
13.21 miles
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Max Speed:
31.50 mph
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Avg Speed:
13.90 mph
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Altitude Gain:
0 ft
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Route:
work-Kingpin Lanes
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Weight:
0
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Category: general: commute -
solo
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Terrain: Road: Hills
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Bike: Fuji Supreme 700c Hybrid
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Club: Commuter Cycling Century |
| Weather Conditions: 59 degrees (feels like 59)
Wind: SE19
Humidity: 37%
Mostly cloudy
Sunset: 6:04 PM |
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Upon arriving at work and changing into my work clothes, my MP3 player went silent from a dead battery. No problem, when I get to my desk and settle in to start working I can plug it in to recharge. After a couple hours of working away, I unplugged the MP3 player and put it away in order to relocate my laptop into a conference room and use it to drive an online training session several of my coworkers & I were to experience.
At the end of the day, as I changed for the ride home (actually to the bowling alley), I turned on the MP3 player and inserted the earbud into my right ear and headed out to load up my bike. Before reaching my bike, the radio station was giving a traffic report and mentioned that I-70 by the airport was closed in both directions and said something about Cypress Rd traffic - a street in the vacinity of the airport - my route this evening was going to take my on Cypress Rd to Natural Bridge Rd, right there by there airport. Something about a suspicious box or something, then the MP3 player died. I guess it didn't get fully charged in the short time I had it plugged in this morning, so it was going to be a 'quiet' ride and I may be in for a detour.
The incident was cleared up by time I got to the intersection, although the traffic on I-70 was still fairly heavy as I went under the overpass.
When I was leaving work, I knew I had some extra time than tnis commute would normally require, so I was thinking of putting in a couple extra miles to enjoy the evening's mild weather. Then as I made it through the airport area, I thought I could do my extra miles by jaunting over to The Touring Cyclist, a local bike shop, and do some further investigating about converting the brakes on the Supreme to disc. Made it there, didn't get the answer I was hoping for in the conversion process (that is the frame is not exactly ready have disc brakes), but the door is not completely shut on the idea yet either. A couple more details/possibilites need followup.
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