Total distance bicycled this week: 42 miles!
I really surprised myself this week, my first week of the year of daily bicycling: I ended up putting in a total of 42 miles (70 km), or an average of six miles (10 km) a day. Well, that is awfully good news; it puts me right on track for taking on the 18-mile trip I want to take on Memorial Day, from my neighborhood to Jackson Park on the southside (where the Museum of Science and Industry is), completely via the lakefront path. Given that these distances simply wouldn't happen if I hadn't quit smoking (68 days now cigarette-free and counting), and that for a long time I thought I'd never be able to quit smoking, I'm grateful for any length I can go at all.
I'm at Metropolis Coffeehouse right now, Granville and Kenmore near Loyola University and Rogers Park, finishing up my photos for my second customized bike map in Google Earth, this time of Lincoln Park North; as always when at Metropolis, I'm surrounded by sexy Loyola undergraduates, none of which I'll be taking a picture of today. Then I'll be biking back via inner Lincoln Park, right next to tony Marine Drive for two miles; then an examination of Clarendon Park at Montrose, and a check-out of a tea store near there, and then finally home. Well, for an hour -- then it's off to an art gallery in River West to meet up with my friend Patrick Welch. See you later!
