{"id":87614558,"date":"2009-09-01T20:55:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T04:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614558"},"modified":"2009-09-01T21:13:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T05:13:43","slug":"peddling-my-butt-around-town-month-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614558","title":{"rendered":"Peddling my butt around town. Month One."},"content":{"rendered":"

So, we moved.<\/p>\n

We told you that, right?\u00a0 We didn’t?\u00a0 Well, we moved.\u00a0 4 bedrooms instead of two (one for each kid).\u00a0 Front and back yards.\u00a0 Washer & dryer (drier?).\u00a0 Dishwasher (which isn’t hooked up – don’t ask).\u00a0 Something called “Laths and Plaster” or something like it, which means that hammering is a very dangerous thing.\u00a0 Drilling, doubly-so.\u00a0 For less than the increases the folks at Mole Hill were calling “fair.”\u00a0 I won’t go into it, ‘cause Arwen did it better than I did<\/a>.\u00a0 Still on the board though, which should be interesting after the upcoming AGM.<\/p>\n

It also is about, oh, let’s call it… 80 blocks away from our old place.\u00a0 Which was, I think I’ve mentioned, about six blocks from work for me.\u00a0 This means my morning commute is no longer downhill at idiotic speeds for four minutes, it’s now about 20 minutes of uphill followed by 15 minutes of downhill, with flat bits at the middle and end.\u00a0 The flat bits and NON-nonstop uphill are all thanks to the utterly faboo cycling maps provided by the good folks at UBC’s Cycling Metro Vancouver<\/a> site.\u00a0 I highly suggest using the Restricted Maximum Slope feature, which’ll use the topographical information to suggest a route that’ll stop you from having to pull over and yarf into someone’s flowerbed.<\/p>\n

Right, yeah, so I’ve been using a new cycling computer I bought at Mountain Equipment CoOp<\/a>, and tracking my time, average speed, and distances since I started doing this crazy ride.\u00a0 Well, since August 5th, at least.<\/p>\n

Here’s how I’m doing so far (not bad for an old guy like me, who hasn’t done any REAL riding in about 20 years).\u00a0 I just looked up my commute from 12th and Commercial to my first ever real techie job, out near where Coquitlam’s Ikea is, and realized it was 19.5km and took about 1hr15min based on 15km\/h.\u00a0 And I’m winded by my new 11.5km?<\/p>\n

Anyhoo, looking at my latest data (yes, I’m using a spreadsheet, nerdz), here my stats:<\/p>\n

14 Trips<\/strong> (Been only going to or from work in a given day, no round trips, YET<\/strong><\/em>)
\n17.3km\/h<\/strong> Average Speed
\n10.9km<\/strong> Average Distance (mostly due to some idiotic navigation moments)
\n0:38:02<\/strong> Average Time<\/p>\n

Not too shabby, for an old fart like m’self.<\/p>\n

Oh, and IF your particular reader can cope, here’s a little playlist of the sorta thing I tend to wake up to when cycling. That first track? I swear my muscles don’t have a *chance* to whine when I hear that.
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So, we moved. We told you that, right?\u00a0 We didn’t?\u00a0 Well, we moved.\u00a0 4 bedrooms instead of two (one for each kid).\u00a0 Front and back yards.\u00a0 Washer & dryer (drier?).\u00a0 Dishwasher (which isn’t hooked up – don’t ask).\u00a0 Something called “Laths and Plaster” or something like it, which means that hammering is a very dangerous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-people","category-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87614560,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614558\/revisions\/87614560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}