April 27, 2010

• Monday, April 26, 2010

  I was pretty beat all day after all that climbing over the weekend.  In the morning I rode to work 17th to Eureka to 18th to Harrison to Mariposa to Bryant to 2nd to Market to Sansome and into the office.  I limped home over lunch and then decided that I’d do a pretty flat ride after work to stretch out my legs.  I rode 2nd to Howard to 11th to Bryant to Precita to Mission to Silver to Alemeny to Sagamore to Brotherhood Way to Lake Merced to Higuera to Arballo where I stopped to get a couple of pics of Park Merced.  This neighborhood has never really done it for me.  It all seems too planned, too suburban, almost New Jersey:

  

  

  I continued on Arballo to Font to Holloway where I stopped to look at the construction at the J. Paul Leonard Library in San Francisco State.  I’m reserving my judgement but I’m concerned that they integrity of the 50′s original structure is going to be lost completely and I also question the need for such a large addition because libraries will almost certainly stop being primary repositories of information in my lifetime as everything goes online.  Maybe they forsee a archival use for this massive structure:

  

  The first three floors of this building are original and the rest of it is a sad addition:

  

  

  Me:

  

  I continued on Holloway to Junipero Serra.  I stopped and got a bunch of pics of the pretty homes and entrances that I saw as I headed north:

  

  

  I continued to Moncada where I got pics of more pretty homes:

  

  

  I took Moncada to Paloma to Ocean to San Benito.  You can tell you’re heading into Saint Francis Wood because you see all these ginormous trees:

  

  

  

  I continued on San Benito to Saint Francis to Santa Clara to Portola to Claremont to Dewey to Laguna Honda into 7th to Hugo to 3rd to Frederick to Ashbury to Masonic to Loma Vista to Roosevelt to 17th to Mars to Corbett to Ord and home for dinner. 

  Bike Mileage:

  Today 28.2 Week to date 28.2 Month to date 914.8 Year to date 2,498.5 To Goal 7,501.5 Over (Under) plan (679.6) YTD Mileage vs Last Year (1,258.9) Rolling Year 6,692.6 Since Inception 10/1/07 23,668.3

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