I started riding the bus to work a few weeks ago.\u00c2\u00a0 It saves us over $120 a month in gas – which is cool – but it takes me an hour and a half to get to work – which is not cool.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I noticed every bus has a bike rack on the front so you can ‘bike-n-ride’.\u00c2\u00a0 I got to thinking maybe I could take my bike to work in the morning and ride my bike home.\u00c2\u00a0 So I tried that almost two weeks ago.\u00c2\u00a0 My thought was this, sure its 100 plus degrees outside, but I can get on the bus any time I get too tired, right?<\/p>\n
So my first real\u00c2\u00a0attempt was no too bad; I made it about 8 miles before I got on the bus (oh, it’s 18-19 miles to work).\u00c2\u00a0 My second attempt I made it 14 miles.\u00c2\u00a0 But yesterday, I made it all the way home – in all I put 23 miles on my bike yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 I had to ride up to Union Hills from my house (about four miles) because my bus already had two bikes on it (they only carry two).\u00c2\u00a0 I could have waited 30 mins for the next bus, but I chose to cycle instead.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0I have to thank my brother for sending me a camelpak backpack when he heard I was riding my bike.\u00c2\u00a0 It holds about 70 ounces of water.\u00c2\u00a0 In my first attempt I drink all of it and went to my reserve bottle on the bike.\u00c2\u00a0 Not smart, I water logged myself and only made it 8 miles.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday, I had plenty of water left because I wasn’t drinking it the whole trip, just kept taking enough to keep my mouth wet (it is the desert).\u00c2\u00a0 My wife bought me a laptop backpack as well so I can lug my laptop to and from work on my bike.\u00c2\u00a0 My goal here is to loss about 80lbs.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe I will post a before and after picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I started riding the bus to work a few weeks ago.\u00c2\u00a0 It saves us over $120 a month in gas – which is cool – but it takes me an hour and a half to get to work – which is not cool.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I noticed every bus has a bike rack on the front […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}