Thursday, June 26, 2008

My First Commute

Yesterday was my first commute to work. All things considered it went fairly well. I rode the 7.4 miles in 43 minutes. The ride back was a little tougher, due to the fact that it is more uphill, and I did that (7.5 miles) in 1 hour even. This morning I did the ride in to work in 39 minutes. I'm going to take an alternate route home tonight which should shave 0.3 miles off of the uphill part of the trip. Of course that will also probably mean that the climb will be that much steeper, but I'll just have to try it and see.

3 comments:

The Talberts said...

7.4 miles?!?
I need to go take a nap just reading that.

running shoes said...

WOW! great job Eric.

Eric said...

Thanks Jen. Yeah Melissa, it was pretty tiring, but a guy I work with commutes by bike to downtown from Florence. It's about 15 miles each way for him, so I figure I can't complain too much.