Bryan Strawser

12.84 miles, 56.58 minutes, 13.4 mph average speed, 517.85 calories (59.19 fat grams)

14.596 miles, 69.47 minutes, 567.89 calories (60.79 fat grams), 77.2 degrees.

Over to Cedar & 5th from downtown, through University of Minnesota East Bank, along river road, Mill Ruins Park, and St. Anthony’s Main.

31.496 miles, 133.37 minutes, 1381.4 calories (165.18 fat grams), 14.2 mph average speed

Longest ride yet.

Have now ridden the new bike 105.70 miles - not bad for the first week

20.82 miles, 90.35 minutes, 13.8 mph average speed, 909.45 calories (107.64 fat grams), 58 degrees (ugh).

Along the river trails, through the U of Minn, down Portland Avenue to 20th street, around downtown a bit.

Monday night, I wandered off to Penn Cycle on Lake Street in Minneapolis and purchased a new road bike.

In fact, it’s my first road bike ever:

I’m now setup for both road and mountain biking - and for the time being - the Trek 4500 mountain bike is back in Boston, the Trek 1200c is here in Minneapolis, and life is good.

This is my first bike with the Shimano SPD clipless pedal system - which required new shoes and alot of practicing in order to get used to clipping and unclipping. But after five days of riding, I think i’ve mostly gotten that system figured out.

The bike was accessories with a Trek bottle cage and bottle, a Topeak lock, and a Topeak road pump. I also picked up my first Giro helmet, in a silver color to match the bike, of course.

Chastened:

ANDREW SULLIVAN on Iraq: I feared the worst. I was wrong. Expect to see more like this from other pundits in the coming months….

Via Citizen Smash

Monday: 3.6 miles

Tuesday: 6.69 miles, 34.49 minutes, 11.6 average speed, 379 calories

Wednesday: 20.33 miles, 99.11 minutes, 12.8 mph average speed, 1246.30 calories

Thursday: 16.38 miles, 74.18 minutes, 13.4 mph average speed

Friday: 6.9 miles, 34.39 minutes, 11.4 mph average speed

Monday I bought the new bike and rode it home in a rainstorm - was fun and not fun

Tuesday I did not feel well, Friday it started raining on me.

More to come - Minneapolis is a great cycling town, looking forward to 30-40 miles today!

Dave has a piece over at Scripting News that I’m quite happy to hear:

Minnesota Public Radio: “The city of Minneapolis is receiving proposals to develop city-wide, wireless Internet access.”