Recently, I have started taking Franken-bike (my single speed Cruiser) to work instead of driving. I really enjoy my commute to work by bike, and I consider it a welcome addition to my workouts. However, I have never really kept up with it on my blog because I didn't have a good way to track the distances, nor did I really consider these rides to be all that important to my daily workout regiment. But, I have recently notice that when I talk to Hiroko about my workout, I'll say something like . . . "and I rode my bike to work!" Like these rides are a huge addition to what I am doing, and she should be impressed. (Yes, I am trying to impress my wife! Most of the things that I do are attempts to either impress her or make her laugh, and I am more than OK with that!) So, I decided that since I have Old Bob, that I may as well use him to track these rides. Mainly, because I don't want to get an overinflated idea of the of these rides worth. I realize that they are better than driving, but it's not like I took an hour long spin class either. Also, I hope that by including these rides in this blog that I will be more apt to ride to work rather than drive when I don't have a good reason to drive.
Today, I rode to work. I also had to run an errand from my campus to the main campus in the middle of the day and rode then, afterward I rode home. All in all, I rode 7.03 mile spent 44:03.42 riding (and in traffic) and burned 687 cal according to Old Bob. On a normal day, if I didn't go to the gym by bike, the total would be half this. So as I suspected, these rides are not that big of a deal.
After work today, I went to the nOg for the Run Club. Since it was Valentines day, they were doing an event where single people were suppose to wear green and people in a relationship were suppose to red: Green for Go and Red for No! Hiroko couldn't attend the run because her work has been CrAZy all week, and she would need to work from 5am to 5pm on Tuesday, so the nOg run was out for her. She was joking with me saying that I would wearing a green shirt under my red one, but Audrey, Victor, and Ernie can call attest to the fact that I rock my Red Krispy Kreme Challenge tech shirt the whole time!
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| Blurry picture of me Rockin' the Red as I run. |
Today, the weather was awesome -- right around 70 degrees, but windy -- and I would be shocked if we didn't hit 200 again despite it being Valentine's day!
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| People hatting in the nOg before the run |
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| A group of runners preparing to start their run |
My run was really awesome. I ran the 2.80 course in 24:48.87 at a 9:05 pace, which is my fastest run at the nOg thus far. I did the first mile in 8:19.68, mile 2 in 9:10.98 and the last .80 in 7:18.21. I attempted to take pictures as I ran, but the lack of light made it difficult as you can see from the pictures below. However, I think I run faster when I try to take pictures!
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| Oakwood Ave. at the end of mile one. |
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| Heading toward the Capitol at the end of mile two. |
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