Biked to work

[dmaze]

Finally got around to biking to work today. On the one hand, it seems like there should be a good way to do it that doesn't involve McGrath Highway; on the other, that really does feel optimal to minimize the cumulative change in height. I wonder how I get home. And if I'm being too paranoid about bike parking; I took off the front light and brought my helmet inside, since that seemed to be what everyone else was doing. "If I do this a lot, it'll be good for me."

Comments

[76trombones.livejournal.com]

Can you get to Washington St somehow? *thinks* Enh, even if you can, it still is going to involve a big scary intersection, even if not Union Square proper. Hm.

If you don't have a bike map, you can borrow mine sometime. If I see you Saturday, you can borrow it then. (It has those little useful elevation-indicating lines whose names I can't remember at the moment.)

[dmaze]

So from LCS I can readily get to Cambridge Street, and I can essentially get to either Union or Washington and McGrath. In that direction, getting to Medford and Highland promises lots of suck going up McGrath. Getting further east (say, into Charlestown) seems tricky too, though I could conceivably cross the Gilmore Bridge (in traffic) and go across Main Street in Charlestown to Sullivan. That feels out-of-the-way, though, and if I'm putting up with that much traffic I might as well go through Union.

I do in fact have a bike map at home. I was thinking on the way in that a topographic map with contour lines would be useful. :-)

[eisenbud.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine created www.trailregistry.com. While mainly intended for hikers, he's an avid biker (and actually lived in Somerville until recently) so I bet if you started GPSing useful bike routes in the Boston area, you could get it to give you nice maps with elevation profiles (and I bet he'd be open to doing contours too, though that code doesn't exist yet.)