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Wednesday, Jun 14, 2006
Comment of the Day
A comment attached to a post at "Sadly, No!" about Wingnut All-Star, Jeff Goldstein:
Tuesday, Jun 13, 2006
Map-o-rama
Most on-line mapping sites are lousy for determining directions for bicycles routes. Mapquest allows an option to avoid highways, which helps.
I was playing around with yahoo maps beta, and realized it supports multiple destinations. I can at least use it to determine the length of a route I select by giving enough way points to guide the software.
My commute from D's work to my work is about 14.3 miles. I don't feel so bad about the elapsed time for last night's ride. In addition to the slight uphill and an atypical head wind (rather than the prevailing tailwind at that time of the day) , I went almost two and a half miles further than I thought. So I was just north of 10 mph. Pretty damn slow, but at least in the double digits.