May 2007 Archives

(holy crap, where did today go?)

I did not do my civic duty this week and remind everyone that today is Bike To Work Day (which, as an acquaintence pointed out, has a better ring to it that "Drive 364 Days Day")

Last year, I said "next time, in Jerusalem Skyline (Blvd)." And I did that (in October, when we returned to Daylight Sanity^WStandard Time).

This time, I rode up to the Panhandle, met some folks, rode through Golden Gate Park to Ocean Beach, down The Great Highway, and out to Skyline. From there we rode to Junipero Serra Park, Back to Skyline, down to Cañada Rd, down into Woodside, up Whiskey Hill Rd, over Sand Hill Rd. I turned off at Page Mill, because we were late, when I should have continued to Arrastradero (I forgot where it crossed). From there I joined my normal ride down from Menlo Park (where I get off early for extra milage) at Oregon Expwy & 101 (there's a ped-brige over that leads to the Baylands trails. I basically leave traffic behind right there.

All told: 60 miles. 4 hours. We averaged 15mph, which isn't bad considering all the climbing. I'm not sure how much I did, but since Skyline was involved, it has to be at least a few thousand feet of vertical.

So, 60 is the new 50, and I may ride to Palo Alto this evening (for a total of 70).

Oh, and I forgot sunblock, so I'm a bit pink.

Two tickets near the stage for the Morrissey concert:

an embarrassingly ridiculous number of dollars.

Two dinners at Taqueria Dos Peñas beforehand:

a much more reasonable number of dollars.

Reliving your 19th birthday^[1] with the woman who was there (and is wearing the t-shirt to prove it):

Priceless

(It's going to be a busy week, Thursday we're going to my choice: Elvis Costello.)

^[1] Yeah, ok, so "reliving" pretty much any part of that time of my life is really far from my list of things that would make their way into a comercial like this. Still, she really wanted to go, so who am I to say "no?"