Hello, friends!
I think I mentioned this in my last post but I decided to bring Sulu back with me to Saint Louis so that there would be a chance to ride around instead of leaving him in CoMO and guaranteeing that I wouldn't get any rides in for the rest of 2012. This past week, I definitely picked up some mileage. Whether or not it was a good idea or not is another question. =0).
Monday, Meg and I went to the chiropractor together down in Clayton. From there, she had to go back up north while I had to go down south for a few meetings. The question before us was how were we going to do this? Would she drop me off down south then come pick me up later? Would we go back home so I could grab my car and come back down south? Wolud we take 2 cars? No, my friends, there would be biking. We strapped Sulu to the back of the Rolla, drove down to the chiropractor, and when we were done, I biked south to my meetings and Meg drove up north to hers. At the end of the day, I hopped back on Sulu and biked my way back up north. So what if it was sub-40 degrees with a cold drizzle? I biked and it felt really good.
Tuesday, I had a meeting down on the loop for lunch and Meg was going to be down on the loop later in the afternoon and we were going to dinner with some friends down south in the evening. How would we make that work? We could take 2 cars if we wanted but that would make me sad. It wouldn't make any sense for us to do a dropoff and pickup situation. Friends, this is where Sulu comes to the rescue again! I biked down to the loop, had my meetings, did a bunch of admin, Meg drove down for her meeting, I tossed Sulu in the back of her car, and we rode together to dinner with friends.
Meg and I have talked about what would happen if we went down to 1 car and whether or not we thought we could do it. This year, since I have to commute to CoMO every week that isn't a possibility, but it does seem like there are some possibilities.
Stats:
Places traveled: From the chiropractor to Seamus McDaniel's, then from Starbucks to home. Then from Home to the Loop.
Distance traveled: 4.3 miles + 11.2 miles + 7.4 miles = 22.9 miles ($1.87)
Meters: Oddly enough, no meters here. Everywhere I went had parking.
Total: $1.87
Grand Total: $315.14
Left to Save: $267.89
Happy Biking!
~Adam
The story of a guy trying to rationalize the money he spent on his bike and other random thoughts.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Friday, December 7, 2012
Major Gains and Major Setbacks
Hello, friends!
This past week has been one of major gains and one major setback in my quest to eventually save enough money to justify the purchase of Sulu. Let's recap, shall we?
I decided to bring Sulu home last week. I knew that I was going to Sabbath on Saturday and I knew that I wanted to ride on my Sabbath so I figured that that would be a good idea. It turned out to be quite a good idea. Here's why.
Friday: I biked a LOT. I went to the library to get some work done and then Meg asked me to pick up something from Walgreens before I went to Global Cafe, which is the International Friends Large Group gathering. Here's my map. Total there was 13.8 miles, which is pretty solid.
Saturday: On Friday our friend Greg asked if anyone wanted to go bike riding around Forest Park on Saturday. Since biking was part of my plan anyway, it only makes sense that I would say yes to that, right? Here's where it gets fun. I thought to myself, "self, why would you DRIVE somewhere to go biking when you could BIKE somewhere to go biking? So that's what I did. I biked down to forest park, biked around forest part, went to the history museum and the art museum, then biked home. Here's that map. The total there was 12 miles, which is also a good number, especially given that I had biked so much the previous day.
Tuesday: Meg came with me to Columbia but that didn't stop me from riding everywhere, even though she didn't have a bike. Since my bike was still on the back of my car when I dropper her off at Columbia College, I decided to park and ride the rest of the day. That's 2 more miles + meter time.
Wednesday: This is where the big loss came. I got up Wednesday morning and had a terrible realization... I'd lost my bike lock. See, on Tuesday, when I reattached my bike to the bike rack, I used the bungee cords that usually attach my lock to the bike. Normally this isn't a problem but for whatever reason I forgot to throw the lock in my car. Thus, I had to buy a new bike lock. Lame. I still got the normal 4 miles biked + meter time but that was definitely a setback.
Stats:
Miles biked: 31.8 miles ($2.82)
Meters: 7 hours on campus ($7.00)
New Bike Lock: (-$25.11)
Total: -$15.29
Grand Total: $313.27
Left to Save: $269.76
Happy Biking!
~Adam
This past week has been one of major gains and one major setback in my quest to eventually save enough money to justify the purchase of Sulu. Let's recap, shall we?
I decided to bring Sulu home last week. I knew that I was going to Sabbath on Saturday and I knew that I wanted to ride on my Sabbath so I figured that that would be a good idea. It turned out to be quite a good idea. Here's why.
Friday: I biked a LOT. I went to the library to get some work done and then Meg asked me to pick up something from Walgreens before I went to Global Cafe, which is the International Friends Large Group gathering. Here's my map. Total there was 13.8 miles, which is pretty solid.
Saturday: On Friday our friend Greg asked if anyone wanted to go bike riding around Forest Park on Saturday. Since biking was part of my plan anyway, it only makes sense that I would say yes to that, right? Here's where it gets fun. I thought to myself, "self, why would you DRIVE somewhere to go biking when you could BIKE somewhere to go biking? So that's what I did. I biked down to forest park, biked around forest part, went to the history museum and the art museum, then biked home. Here's that map. The total there was 12 miles, which is also a good number, especially given that I had biked so much the previous day.
Tuesday: Meg came with me to Columbia but that didn't stop me from riding everywhere, even though she didn't have a bike. Since my bike was still on the back of my car when I dropper her off at Columbia College, I decided to park and ride the rest of the day. That's 2 more miles + meter time.
Wednesday: This is where the big loss came. I got up Wednesday morning and had a terrible realization... I'd lost my bike lock. See, on Tuesday, when I reattached my bike to the bike rack, I used the bungee cords that usually attach my lock to the bike. Normally this isn't a problem but for whatever reason I forgot to throw the lock in my car. Thus, I had to buy a new bike lock. Lame. I still got the normal 4 miles biked + meter time but that was definitely a setback.
Stats:
Miles biked: 31.8 miles ($2.82)
Meters: 7 hours on campus ($7.00)
New Bike Lock: (-$25.11)
Total: -$15.29
Grand Total: $313.27
Left to Save: $269.76
Happy Biking!
~Adam
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