hard to beat

holy crap. as i write this i’m still panting.

when i say today will be hard to beat, i don’t mean that i think i’ve done an amazing job. i mean that i am all but wiped out. i could definitely continue to ride past what i did but i pretty much pushed it to my limit and here is all i got - 

distance = 22.7 miles (keep in mind this is the exact same route as yesterday and it says it was a mile shorter so who knows how accurate any of this information really is.)

 total miles = 1245

average speed = 20.2 mph (1.4 mph faster than yesterday)

max speed = 31.4 (don’t have a clue where i hit this but i’m assuming venice between helms and la cienega.)

total time = 1:07:24 (7 minutes faster than yesterday)

so what have we learned? not much. 

i’m not sure if any of these numbers will ever be accurate but i am going to use them for what they are worth and try like crazy to beat my time every day.

i actually did better today on the way to the beach. i was a full mile an hour faster than yesterday’s time. 

oh flap! one thing i forgot to mention is that i’m still lazy as hell and did not get up when i wanted to but because i was faster to the beach peet’s wasn’t open so i didn’t stop at all. and another thing is that i really only got stopped by two lights the whole way. one at the 405 and santa bonerca and the one at la cienega and venice. 

there was a lot of slowing down and speeding up along the way…my day dream is to have a nice long stretch, say 22.7 miles where there are no stop lights and no stop signs and very little traffic. like a giant outdoor race track just for me. i bet if i could somehow eliminate the starting and stopping and busses i could do it in under an hour.

hmmm…well as it stands there is nothing like that that i know of and until then i have to deal with the things that come along with living in the city. if i could get out of bed 20 minutes earlier maybe it would save me time. and it would probably kill me. oh sweet death come and take me away. i want that hour!

i’m gonna go puke.

chirp,

hillary