December 20, 2007

  • Tuesday, December 18

    It was pouring down rain when I woke up so I didn't go for a long ride but instead just came down Market into work.  It quit raining around lunchtime, and I headed home to check on the dogs.  It had just finished raining and the city was cool and wet and clean and beautiful:

    I noticed that my rear tire was going flat.  #$&%*!!! 
    I made it home and decided to switch to my commuter bike which also had
    a flat tire because the pavement was wet and it was better on that.  I
    changed the tire on my commuter and as I was putting the wheel back on
    the bike I could here that the tube had popped and was leaking air. 
    #$&%*!!!  I finally managed to find the deeply enbedded glass that
    was causing all the fuss and I decided to head down to REI to get a new
    rear tire for my carbon bike and also some new tubes.  On the way back
    to work from that I stopped to check out the fire on Mission Street that had snarled traffic all day.  The building was too unstable to enter and so they were just pumping water and foam on it in hopes that it would go out..  Mission street was knee deep in foam by the time I got there:

      

    After work I headed out Howard to 10th to Harrison to 25th to Valencia to Tiffany to San Jose to Wilder to Diamond to Monterey to Santa Clara into Vicente and then down to the ocean.  I came up the Great Highway and then rode Cabrillo to 41st to Clement to 32nd to El Camino Del Mar to Lake to Arguello to Clay to Fillmore to Post to Laguna to Market to 17th and then home.  I had noticed that now my front tire was going flat!!  I took the tire off to fix it and noticed that it was also covered in dog poop.  Yuck.  Not my best day on the bike.  Still beats driving.

    Bike Mileage:
    Today                              33.4
    Week to date                   78.4
    Month to date                 567.7
    Quarter to date            2,245.0
    Remaining to goal           275.6
    Over(Under) plan             80.6