February 25, 2010

Biking to work

Filed under: Cycling,Microsoft,Personal,Seattle — spiro @ 6:16 pm

I finally bought a bicycle last weekend, after roughly a year of thinking about it. Monday was pretty nice here in Seattle, so I bailed out of work early to go ride a bit around Kirkland. Not only did I enjoy the ride, but I ended up doing 10.5 miles going to Juanita and back, then all the way to South Kirkland P&R (see route). So the logical conclusion from that is that I should be able to get through the 6.1 miles to work right? But unfortunately the weather would not cooperate this week, until today.

So here’s the route to work:

bikeroute

bikeroute

So I made it, the only big surprise is how I was exhausted climbing the hill west of 405, and a strong southerly wind, which should both help me on the way back :)