The Fat Guy In The Back
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Sioux Falls, SD
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Bikes: '81 Panasonic Sport, '02 Giant Boulder SE, '08 Felt S32, '10 Diamondback Insight RS, '10 Windsor Clockwork, '15 Kestrel Evoke 3.0, '19 Salsa Mukluk
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Consecutive bicycle work commute number 1549 - Part B:
We wound up getting around 4" of snow before it stopped falling mid-morning.
I decided to go ahead and ride to our company headquarters for the afternoon meetings. When I left the client I got on the MUP and was happy to discover it had already been plowed. Between that and a tailwind I made pretty decent time (for a fat bike) for the first four miles.
Then I hit the part of the trail that had not yet been plowed, and where the MUP makes a turn which eliminated my tail wind and gave me a cross wind. The remaining 5.25 miles were painfully slow.
When I finally arrived at the office it took me 1 hour 45 minutes to ride the 9.25 miles. I wound up being late for my first meeting. In retrospect I probably shouldn't have made the trip across town. I'm pretty tired and I have another 8 mile ride home waiting for me at the end of the day.