yet another broken record

Just a few hours after posting that I broke my personal best bike-to-work speed, I also broke my personal best bike-to-home speed. And by quite a bit. Looking back at my previous blog posts on the topic, my previous best time from the office to our house was 32:51, set last year. This afternoon, despite heinous traffic problems, I did it in 30:04. That’s over a 10% improvement!

It’s funny, I posted something here last year bragging that I beat my records in both directions on the same day, and it was a Friday. I guess it’s something about Fridays, but today is Friday and today I set records in both directions again.

Here’s the complete historical breakdown.

Best times biking from our house to the office

29:52 - October 2006 - on the Giant Revive

27:46 - June 27, 2007 - on the Trek homebrew hybrid

25:58 - July 18, 2007 - on the Trek Soho 1.0

Best times biking from the office to our house

36:13 - October 2006 - on the Giant Revive

32:51 - June 27, 2007 - on the Trek homebrew hybrid

30:04 - July 18, 2007 - on the Trek Soho 1.0

Looking at these numbers, can you guess which direction is mostly uphill and which is mostly downhill? 🙂

Boy was I pooped when I got home this afternoon. It was a hot day for a nearly non-stop uphill ride.

By the way, just in case you think I’m Superman or something, depending on the route I take, my bike commute is around 6.0 to 6.3 miles. So despite all my bragging, I’m only averaging 12 mph or so.