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Today is Bike to Work day, and I thought this was a good opportunity to write a bit about my biking. I've been biking to work every now and then over the past few years. But when I saw An Inconvenient Truth (the movie by Al Gore on global warming) I decided to follow his suggestion to at least once a week bike to work (or take public transportation). Slowly the biking once a week turned into driving once a week and biking the other days. In October I got a Garmin Forerunner 301 bike GPS bike computer from the REI Scratch & Dent sale. Most of the days that I bike, I use the bike computer. So far I've biked about 400 miles (650 km) between October 15th 2006 and May 17th 2007.

My ride to work is about 4.5 miles (7 km) if I bike all the way up the hill. Today my average heart rate was 145 bpm which means my heart beat about 4500 times during my ride. My maximum heart rate today was 183 bpm, which is quite high, given that the rule-of-thumb calculation of maximum heart rate for me is 185 bpm. You can find detailed data on my ride here.
Augusta is busy today with the San Francisco Bike Coalition which has Energizer stations all over SF to cheer people on and get some snacks.
posted by Christian on Thursday, May 17, 2007, 0 comments