Cycling Part Deux

Today I biked to the house Hope's watching. It took me all of 30 minutes to bike to campus, fill my rear tire up with air at the Student Union, get on the Highway 54 overpass, go into hypoxia attempting to go up the slight mile-long incline that begins at the UNC hospitals and climaxes on Mt. Caramel Church Rd, and arrive at Hope's house. "Wow! You look like a professional cyclist wearing those shades, shirt, helmet and bike shorts! And you ride with such ease!" she said. But of course, I couldn't hear that, because she was laughing too hard at seeing me in bike shorts. I'm estimating my total mileage at about 6-7miles, and my return trip lasted all of 15 minutes which included waiting for the lights and traffic. I'm guesstimating my median speed was about 15 MPH with an average of 12. The trip bothways made me burn off about 500 calories and produce liters of lactic acid.