Veni vidi vici
13-Aug-05
Well, Madeira is mine. I got up and went out about 7 a.m. to go ride my bike. I was going to do the longest of the 10 routes I had (about 15 miles) and then finish up with an 8 mile route on Monday to finish it off. But as I got started, I realized that without too much work I could combine the two and finish them off. My ride this morning ended up being 20.03 miles, and it took me just over 2 hours.
I wrote a pretty cool little program using Google Maps to illustrate my bike riding routes, which you can see here. The routes that I did this morning were #7 and #8 (Dark Green and Light Blue)
The final totals for Madeira:
- 120 streets
- 9 rides, varying from 4.46 to 20.03 miles
- 68.2 miles
- 6 hours, 37 minutes and 44 seconds (an average of 10.29 mph)
So…. as Carolyn asked this morning…. now what? Some thoughts I had were
- Attempt to ride every street in Madeira faster. This would entail just trying them again (since in theory the more I ride the stronger / faster I become)
- Create fewer, longer routes. This would also cut down my time, since in the routes that I have there’s a lot of backtracking, due to having to keep coming back to my house at the end of each route
- I took a copy of a map I have, and drew a circle of 2 miles around my house. So I thought I might try to ride on every street in that circle, then expand it to 3 miles, etc.
- Work on preparing for a race / duathlon / triathlon and/or riding to and/or from work.