My goal in March was to get 8 round trips to work via the bicycle. Number 8 was today. It was a good ride in. The windshields on the cars were frosted over when I started. So it was a three shirt & jacket day, plus tights, balaclava, helmet cover, two pairs of gloves and two pairs of socks morning commute.
I ride to the Baltimore & Annapolis Trial and enter it at the Ranger's Station heading south. I take the trail to the southern terminus at Boulter's Way. From Boulter's way you get on MD 450, cross the Severn River and pass the Naval Academy. There's a bike line that disappears after you cross the MD 450 Bridge. At that point today I was able to keep up with traffic (30 & 25 mph zones) pretty well and took the lane most of the rest of the way into work.
Since it looks like rain for the rest of the commuting month, I'll probably be driving the Geo Prizm, unless the forecast improves. Please improve!
At the end of today for the commute this month, assuming that I bike home, I will have bicycled 256 miles and driven 309.
For the year I've saved 13.26 gallons of gas or $40.17. Most of that was from this month.
I've also used 44.68 gallons of gas that cost $133.38.
I've been using a spreadsheet on Google Docs to track these things.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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