Every time these wheels turn round...
Jul. 5th, 2006 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gridloreToday was my first day of riding/light rail to and from work. This was very successful! But first the details.
Distance: 5.479 miles
Maximum Speed: 20.1 mph
Average Speed: 10.8 mph
Time Riding: 30m 34s
There were of course, breaks in that. I ride from home to the light rail station, then take a train for about 25 minutes to the Civic Center station. Then it's a little over a mile to work. After that, there's this 8 hour+ break where I earn a living.
The ride over was nice. Very little traffic at 0545, my backpack was comfortable, and the trail was empty. I made it to the station just as a train was coming around the bend. Hanging my bike on the rack took a little effort, but it was my first time. Spent my time on the train reading. At my stop, I easily got my bike down and rode to work. I'm not the only bicyclist, and we have an area to park our bikes. Changed into my steel-toes, and clocked in.
Work was.. interesting. I had to load eight pallets of material for two stops. What made this difficult was one of the stops was getting over-sized pallets. Just big enough so I couldn't load them side-by-side. I ended up with all the pallets for one location on one side, and thew pallets for the other stop on the opposite side of the bed. Luckily the two stops were close to each other, so I wasn't off-balance for long.
No, the real amusement came when I got back to the yard. We have several racks to hold strut. There are two racks that our daily orders are loaded on for us to find each morning (always amusing when the one thing you need is buried behind 900 feet of others' work.) Then there's the inbound rack. When we bring back anything strut-like from our suppliers, we put it on the inbound rack. When the Unistrut fairy visits, it goes on the inbound rack.
Today, the inbound rack collapsed. We all had to park and unload on the street while they cleaned up the mess.
Once i was unloaded and out, I rode back to the light rail. Amazingly enough, after a long day I felt good on the ride. Having Metallica's For Whom the Bell Tolls off S&M come up as I rode away helped. The only tough part of getting home was the climb to get off the Guadalupe River trail.
I left work about 1515. I got home around 1610. When I was taking the train/bus to get home, I would have just boarded my bus at that point. So the bike is a good thing.
Distance: 5.479 miles
Maximum Speed: 20.1 mph
Average Speed: 10.8 mph
Time Riding: 30m 34s
There were of course, breaks in that. I ride from home to the light rail station, then take a train for about 25 minutes to the Civic Center station. Then it's a little over a mile to work. After that, there's this 8 hour+ break where I earn a living.
The ride over was nice. Very little traffic at 0545, my backpack was comfortable, and the trail was empty. I made it to the station just as a train was coming around the bend. Hanging my bike on the rack took a little effort, but it was my first time. Spent my time on the train reading. At my stop, I easily got my bike down and rode to work. I'm not the only bicyclist, and we have an area to park our bikes. Changed into my steel-toes, and clocked in.
Work was.. interesting. I had to load eight pallets of material for two stops. What made this difficult was one of the stops was getting over-sized pallets. Just big enough so I couldn't load them side-by-side. I ended up with all the pallets for one location on one side, and thew pallets for the other stop on the opposite side of the bed. Luckily the two stops were close to each other, so I wasn't off-balance for long.
No, the real amusement came when I got back to the yard. We have several racks to hold strut. There are two racks that our daily orders are loaded on for us to find each morning (always amusing when the one thing you need is buried behind 900 feet of others' work.) Then there's the inbound rack. When we bring back anything strut-like from our suppliers, we put it on the inbound rack. When the Unistrut fairy visits, it goes on the inbound rack.
Today, the inbound rack collapsed. We all had to park and unload on the street while they cleaned up the mess.
Once i was unloaded and out, I rode back to the light rail. Amazingly enough, after a long day I felt good on the ride. Having Metallica's For Whom the Bell Tolls off S&M come up as I rode away helped. The only tough part of getting home was the climb to get off the Guadalupe River trail.
I left work about 1515. I got home around 1610. When I was taking the train/bus to get home, I would have just boarded my bus at that point. So the bike is a good thing.
