Two down, forty-eight to go

[elfs]

So, this morning, after doing my usual abs and shoulders exercises, I took my bicycle into work. My ride from my house to the park & ride is harder than it should be because there are two large dips that I have to ride through to get there, which means that on cold days I start out downhill, freezing my fingers off, and then have to push hard to make it up the first hill, then dip down again just as I've started to warm up, then take another hard hill up to the bus stop.

Riding into the office from downtown isn't so bad, but again it is mostly uphill. I can make that uphill more pleasant by riding through Seattle Center, but it's still uphill.

I was dizzy and nearly sick when I got in, despite having a decent breakfast and a twenty minute wait. But after I recovered, I felt pretty good and have been more or less productive all morning. Still, I'm not looking forward to the ride home.

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[elfs.livejournal.com]

I'm bussing the freeway part, so essentially it's from my house to the park-and-ride, which is about 3.0 miles (according to google maps), and then from the Seattle Art Museum up Queen Anne Hill to the lower shopping district, which is another 2.1 miles. So, it's about 5.1 miles, not a terrible trek by any stretch of the imagination. 10.2 total each day.

I used to do from the office I am now to along the waterfront and up Delridge to Pigeon Ridge, and I know that's murder. You have my sympathies.