I’m feeling strangely awake even though exhausted, so, a report on today’s ride: Stats: 68 mi (daily total — the ride was 66 and Menlo-Atherton HS is about 1 mi from my house). AVS: 13.1mph MXS: 34.1mph (Crystal Springs Rd, also the first time I have violated a set speed limit because one section has […]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Saturday ride #6: Tour de Menlo
I’ll have more say later when I don’t have to go catch a train, but my overall feeling right now is: I am still alive and I finished. And I am unbelievably tired of climbing hills.
Getting off-topic
I thought I might be imagining it, but I don’t think so anymore: Language Log is getting less focused and less good than it used to be. Bill Poser today wrote an entry about how runners hear the start gun at different times because of the speed of sound in air. The ‘hook’ used to […]
Saturday ride #5: Post-Portland ride
Stats: DST: 46.6 mi AVS: 13.9 MXS: 37.4 (omg) Ride Time: 3:20 Total time: 3:50 Route: 34-mile route with Foothill to El Monte and Cañada to 92 extensions. I was pretty beat after getting back from Portland and didn’t start the ride until 1pm. This turned out to be a good reminder of why I […]
Eliminate.
Useless nominalization — defeated! I have to admit that I’m pleased about this on both pedantic and political grounds (the current phrasing is correct, and the current phrasing is more likely to assist in the measure’s defeat), but mostly what caught my eye is the judge referring to the desired change as “useless nominalization”. Nice […]
Saturday ride #4: Exceeding the 40mi threshold
Stats: DST: 41 mi AVS: 14.4 mph MXS: ~30mph Ride time: 3 hrs Total time: 3 hrs 45 min Route: Sand Hill > Foothill (down to Homestead and back) > Alpine > Portola > Mountain Home > Woodside > Valparaiso > Middlefield > Willow. This is the first single ride I’ve done over 40 mi […]
Thank heaven for email notifications
Alaska Airlines helpfully sent me an email notification today reminding me to check in on the web before my flight. I elected to click their helpful link to do so (note to Southwest: you could learn something from this) and was conveniently reminded that my flight leaves from SJC, not from SFO. Oh yeah, right […]