Weekly Mileage?

Recumbent Guru

My goal is to commute to work at least twice a week (round trip of 16 miles X 2 = 32 miles).

Make sure I take a scenic ride at least one day out of the weekend (round trip of at least 9 miles).

About four evenings in the week, I like to take a little jaunt up to the Starbucks to treat myself and watch cars flash by (round trip of 4 miles X 4 = 16).

So, let's see here: 32 + 9 + 16 = 57 miles.

Any more than that and I might hurt myself.

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I am a teacher so I plan to bring in my bike mileage next year each week, and mark it on a map of the U.S. and plot how far I have gone. Then have the kids use the internet to look at the towns coming up for the bike and also look at the things to see in the states. Sneak in some reading and research, and writing into the curriculum in a fun way.

Besides the recumbent trike will probably be sitting in my classroom after i start riding it to work. I hope I have room for it or it will go sit with the motorcycles.

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kitkatz wrote:

have the kids use the internet to look at the towns coming up for the bike and also look at the things to see in the states. Sneak in some reading and research, and writing into the curriculum in a fun way.

I too am a teacher and used a similar project with my computer applications class. The students had to travel from state park to state park within Florida without traveling on any toll roads with a mileage cap of 50 - 70 miles before they had to find a camp ground to spend the night. The paths were marked on Google Maps and website location was posted within a word processing document. They had to travel to a total of 5 parks. The parks were chosen randomly. If interested, I could try and find the word processing directions for the project.

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That would be great. Thanks.

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kitkatz wrote:

That would be great. Thanks.

Here are the directions to the project...
Choose your destinations (5)
Look to the chart found in your folder that is titled State Parks.doc
Click on the hyperlink for the park you have chosen
Locate it on the Internet web site
Search the individual Internet link for that specific park for interesting things to do
After you have listed the things to do
Create a pathway from your present location (SRMS) to that park using the mapping feature of Google Earth.
Save the created pathway to your file folder
The file name of the created pathway should include a “hint” of the name of the state park.

Plot a logical pathway starting from SRMS
Must travel on state or county highways (no Interstates or toll roads)
Must travel only 40 to 50 miles between locations.

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Newbie

Awesome.

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Uh-oh....a Starbucks just opened down the street, looks like I'll have to ride down there a few days a week after work to do some people watching Shocked

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I guess we'll do anything to add some miles huh?

Walt

Recumbent Guru

Oh, absolutely, Walt.

Got to cop the Outlaw Biker persona, though.

speedy

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rydabyk wrote:

Uh-oh....a Starbucks just opened down the street, looks like I'll have to ride down there a few days a week after work to do some people watching Shocked

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I guess we'll do anything to add some miles huh?

Walt

Funny you should mention that. My wife and I have been using coffee shops as a destination to motivate ourselves and keep things interesting. It's gotten to the point that we name our rides that way. Before we start, I'll ask her if she wants this to be a Starbucks ride or a Turkish Coffee ride. It seems silly, but it works for us.

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I generally try to get in at least 3 rides a week. They will usually total a little over 100 miles. I retired at the end of May last year, and rode about 1750 miles for the year. Im shooting for around 2000 this year. Not too bad for a 70 year old in Nebr that cant ride during the winter.

Alot of my riding is on the Lincoln bike trails. We have 128 miles of really nice trails, all hard surface. The rest is with our local bike club and the County Cruisers recumbent club in Omaha. As I noted elsewhere I did get to Hostel Shop recumbent rally last year. Nice ride and fun seeing all the different types of recumbents