Sunday, June 08, 2008

rent-a-bike

nice to see the mainstream press giving bicycle transpo a plug. Jon Wertheim, whose articles I enjoy reading on sportsillustrated.com, gave Paris' rent-a-bike program a positive plug (read half way down). Maybe he's a complete bike nerd, but maybe he's just "Joe columnist" who sees a better way than $4.00/gallon gas burning away in fat SUVs.

BTW, 'Z' and I rode to church this a.m., a mile up (and to Breadworks for coffee and scones) and 2 miles home via the "flat route".

Date: June 8 Sun
Mileage: 3 (9.2.5. fixie)
June mileage: 131
Year to date: 712

Oh, and did you get a whiff of that NadalvFederer score? 6-1 6-3 6-0? that's the worst I've seen Roger beaten in years and years. The king is dead...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good job biking this weekend! Here it's ungodly hot and humid, so I'm not sure how much cycling I'd do even if I had a bike...
Today was also the big bike race (formerly known as Core States -- can't remember what it's now called). It must have been brutal.

--Laura

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