Errands and one longer ride Plus June totals

The last part of June has been full of running errands by bike and one longer ride the Mamma Jamma Latte Light training ride. I did somehow manage to hit platinum the Humana Vitality Points deal, so I bought myself an iPod nano to carry my favorite songs on, I'm seeing if I can get 1498 points by the end of June so I can get an Amazon gift card, at the very least I'll get an iTunes gift card. Nice to see a reward for my exercise in a different way. Wonder if United has something like this for me to obsess over.

On the Mamma Jamma Training ride we headed downtown at 15th & San Jacinto I waited for Jerry who got caught at a light, after that I think we stopped at every light except for one, talk about red light karma!
Felt good to get on the road bike! It is so much lighter than the cross bike, on the way back enjoyed talking to Erika from REI. All in all great ride 32.04 miles.

I wanna win that bike for Grenita!

The cycle track on 4th, very nice!

The guy I kept seeing at all the lights!

 As far as errands the shortest was going to the library an HEB at 3.66 miles, the longest was to the dentist then Lane 4 then Crumps Plumbing at 13.38 miles. Longest ride on the cross bike was an ABCx ride 17.14 (which includes riding to/from the park). I did ride on Burnet road3 times at off hours so not much traffic! From Lane 4 to The turn to Crumps, then to get to the Pour House (need to call that light in) and thenn from HEB to Hey Cupcake, no problems.

 I carried some strange things on my bike:

A pet carrier found on bulk trash pick up! The junior chicks are loving it!

And a watermelon. I should have bought a 6 pack to balance the load.

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Miles for these rides: not many most are under 10 miles if not 5 miles
Miles for the 15 days:110.04
Total miles for the month of June: 195.88
Total miles for 2013:1219.99
Miles til 2013:  793.01  (below 800 miles!)
One way commutes in June: 0
Total one way commutes in 2013: 44 will be on hold for a while on this number
Total errands: 16  this month so far + 10 in May + 5 in other months  (31)
Odometer:

Road: 13616
Cross: 2266.4
Trip2:
Road: 436.96
Cross:735.10

I miss commuting...

I realized that I don't miss much about work: (1) the laser printer, but my new job has a color one, so I can be patient, (2) Kearney, he's such as good hard working guy, smart, funny & genuine. I really enjoyed working again with him. (3) Commuting. I was just getting so I was commuting 40% of the drive and was on a role after bike month 44 one way commutes, nearly halfway to my goal of 100 one way commutes.
Not sure if I'll be able to commute to St. Stephens for a couple of reasons: (1) classes start at 8:00 AM, I'm not a morning person and it takes 40-55 mins to get there. (2) Did I mention the big hill once I get past the Penny Backer Bridge? If I did make it to work in decent time, my head would be dripping wet with sweat. MapMyRide has it as a category 5 climb. (3) at Affinegy I was able to sit in jeans, a t-shirt & a ball cap the rest of the day, don't think that can happen at SSES, but the good news is I would have access to a shower.  So I will probably give it a shot one day. But I guess with living on campus one night a week, I'll still be saving my 20%.
To make up for my lack of commutes, I'm trying to ride my bike when it's less than 5 miles away. So far I've ridden to HEB, Lowes, Peoples, Central Market, Pint House Pizza, Doctor to get blood drawn, Crumps Plumbing Supply, a friends house & to swim. I've found if I ride at least 4 miles and the timer on the Humana Fit goes for over 30 mins, I'll hit over 200 calories & get credit for exercising. By the end of July I'll cash in my points for an Amazon gift card or maybe a new heart rate monitor (in hopes that it makes cool graphs--I can only imagine the math problems from those!)
The one time I got on the road bike for what was to be a long hilly ride, well, I got caught in the 20% chsnce of rain! Oh well, maybe in another week!

Fun pics of my routes to play Rorschach Ink Blot Tests with:

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Miles for these rides: not many--shortest: 2.17 to the Dr., longest 9.05 to Crumps
Miles for the 13 days: 85.84
Total miles for the month of June: 85.84
Total miles for 2013: 1109.95
Miles til 2013:  903.15  (below 1000 miles!)
One way commutes in June: 0
Total one way commutes in 2013: 44will be on hold for a while on this number
Total errands: 9 this month so far + 10 in May + 5 in other months 
Odometer:

Road: 13584
Cross: 2188.4
Trip2:
Road: 404.56
Cross: 688.93

May 2013 Stats

Well, once again in May, I rode a bike everyday.

May is also Stroke Awareness Month. Do you know what the signs of a stroke are? It's easy to remember, Act FAST.

Besides social/exercise riding, I used the bike for shorter trips...commuting, shopping to HEB, Whole Foods, going to the library & riding to the ABCx rides instead of driving, anything within 3 miles, I rode & will try to continue to do so. A total of 48 trips, 209.4 miles, 10 gallons of gas and 11,125 calories burned. My name is entered in a contest 48 times, hopefully I'll win the REI gift card!

May 1: Commuted home
8.39 miles

 May 2: back top work,
10.03 miles

May 3:  rode to the library
1.74 miles

 May 4: REI test ride
.39 miles

May 5: thru the hood.
1.6 miles

May 6; errand to the grocery store.
3.49 miles

May 7:  ABCx
16.65 miles

May 8: I rode home , library
11.10 miles

May 9: Rode back in to work
8.42 miles

May 10: errand to Office Depot/Max
3.46 miles

May 11: Armadillo Ride
42.54 miles

May 11: Whole Foods & HEB
9.32 & 3.33 miles 

May 13: Rode home from work
8.43 miles


May 14: Rode back in to work, ABCx ride
 9.96 miles & 12.51 miles

May 15: Commuted home from work, but took a detour with the Ride of Silence. a ride to honor those cyclists who have died while cycling.
11.96 miles

May 16: Back in to work.
9.96 mil

May 17": bike to work day, rode both ways.
12.57 miles & 10.66 miles

May 18: go by bike to volunteer & play.
12.03 miles

May 19: Viva Streets & shopping
16.84 miles

May 20: turn a 1.75 mile trip to the library into 5 miles,
5.06 miles

May 21: Commuted to the Mamma Jamma kickoff party
7.06 miles

May 22: Commute into work after a stop at MiV.
10 miles

May 23: Quick road bike ride in the morning,
1.53 miles

May 24: Beer run.
1.95 miles

May 25: May 25: Errands by bike, went to Buck Moore for some more feed, then to HEB
6.61 miles

May 26: Road to JoLo's for a cookout.
6.12 miles

May 27: Rudy's to Rudy's via 360!
26.15 miles

May 28: ABCx ride!
16.2 miles

May 29: Weak intervals.
6.29 miles

May 30: Commute home
10.62 miles

May 31: Commute in to work
10.49 miles


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Total miles for the month of May: 333.53 (33 more than 2012)
Total miles for 2013: 1024.11 (almost 100 ahead)
Miles til 2013:  988.89  (below 1000 miles!)
One way commutes in May: 14 (same as last year)
Total one way commutes in 2013: 44 Guess this is where it is going to end, oh well.
Odometer:
Road: 13578
Cross: 2107.9
Trip2:
Road:398.57
Cross: 614.46