Originally Posted by wasie_mi

Thanks to everyone who took the time to read my post and offer suggestions. I really hadn't worked out a strategy at all and didn't give this endeavor more than 5 minutes planning. Fact of the matter is, over Memorial Day weekend I watched my son run a half marathon while my son-in-law did the full marathon in the TC Bayshore Marathon. I looked at the 60-64 yo results and saw that an 8-1/2 min/mi pace could get you in the top ten and said to myself, I could do that by next year. Of course, just because I could do that 12 years ago I probably should still be able to do it now, right? Mind you, I get gassed taking the stairs up to my third-floor office.

So, I said to myself, better start riding my bike to work. Now I work from home on Mondays and Fridays so that leaves me with TU-WED-THUR to ride. I have had a chance to think about this while I have been riding and I figure that given the distance and my age, I definitely need a recovery period. So I am probably limited to a round trip at most two days a week. I'm going to start off by riding home on TU-THUR and hopefully after about a month of that, I'll try riding home on TU and doing a round trip on THUR. We'll see how it goes from there.

BTW - My first trip home took me 2 hours and twenty minutes of moving down. I cut that down to 2 hours and 12 minutes of moving time on Thursday and should easily be able to get that down under 2 hours by the 4th.

Here's a post from me back in the day: (where have all the commuters gone?)

2013 Commuting Mileage Thread - End of Year
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