All content copyright © 2004-2010 by steve hardyTook a bike ride today around the north end of Lake Washington. I don't have any gps capability at the moment to tell me the geek stats about the ride, but the route, per my mapquest approximation, is here. Actually, Google maps allowed me to enter a more precise route. They now allow you to specify a walking route, so you're not artificially constrained to roads. Amounted to about 42 miles on the mainland side, and another six on the island. (Microsoft claims the mainland loop is closer to 48 miles long.) Google says the route can be walked in 13.5 hours. My pace was fairly leisurely, but better than the walking benchmark. (About 3.5 hours of riding on the mainland side.) The weather cooperated - no rain until I got back to the island. Was feeling pretty spent toward the end. Had not ridden anywhere for months.
Part of the motivation for the ride today was to meet up with George for lunch, in Bellevue. We used to do lunch fairly regularly back when we worked together. (And some of those lunches happened during especially interesting times -- e.g., on our day off from some shipyard work in Kiel, we drove to Hamburg to be tourists for a day.) But I hadn't seen George in a long while. We decided it's been over five years. The time, she flies.
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