I’m such a slug
A long holiday weekend and I didn’t get out for one single ride. I’d like to blame it on something like the weather or illness or something, but in truth, the answer is slugdom. I barely got out of the house and, aside from dog walks, I’m not sure I did. I spent most of the weekend trying to get the South End wiki into good enough shape to announce it. I think it’s close.
It would be nice if I knew someone -anyone- who also rode to help get me out there, or if I didn’t work at home and would have a commute, but neither of those is true. I suppose I could fake a commute, say, up and down the Esplanade or something. But that just seems kind of pointless and time consuming.
I suppose it would also be easier if I lived outside the city, or at least in a place where the first seven miles of any ride I take weren’t always the same. I know every pebble and bump from here to Alewife. My rides don’t really vary until Lexington Center (11 mi), or maybe Arlington Center (9 mi) at the very earliest.
Ah well. I guess I just need to buckle down and do it[tm]. Yeah. Um hm.
November 27th, 2005 at 10:04 pm
Um, I am now working at home, and if I can ever stop being two weeks behind am generally available for daytime rides…
It would be good motivation becuase I too am riding nowhere.
November 27th, 2005 at 10:37 pm
If I work really hard this week, I’ll only be six months behind. I’ve pretty much given up catching up.
I’d be up for making a weekly riding date. Something like “noon to two on Tuesday” or “ten to one or Thursday” or something.
November 28th, 2005 at 6:48 am
I can not give up! Drats. I set my new contract in three phases, with invoicing at the completetion of each phase (to ensure Christmas spending money!) and so alas, every single person on the team, now can see how far behind I am becuase I put the whole project in Basecamp….
Not good.
I’ve lost your email. I am a pokey rider, but yep, making a weekly riding time would be swell with me (with some flexiblity around the weather). Drop me back a line and we can set a time.
November 30th, 2005 at 10:26 am
During the warm weather, I bike commute from Brookline to work in Natick and back most days. I find that I’m kinda wimping out now that the weather is cooler, darker, and wetter. Now that I’ve finished one set of deadlines for work, though, I will try to keep biking some more if we keep getting unseasonably warm days like we had yesterday (even if I resort to taking the bike on the train in the evenings).
If you’re interested in biking west, either now or in the spring, you could join me for my exciting commute
I’m also up for weekend trips, weather and other projects permitting.
November 30th, 2005 at 10:53 am
That sounds good. Cool and wet (to some degree) don’t bother me too much. Darkness does. I try to keep going as long as the streets are reasonably clear. I had to give it up last winter, though. Just too much snow. Even my dog wouldn’t go outside.