Biking to work

sleep - midnight to 5am, got out of bed at 6. Ate bowl of grape nuts... out of grape nuts... Store run tonight.

I took a 0.6k more efficient route by going up to 145th before cutting across to the lake instead of 130th which diagonally backtracks to 125th. In the future I think I'm going to stick with the 130th route - 145th felt more dangerous due to traffic this morning.

I figured out why the burke-gilman just ends without pointing to the next leg of the trip up by woodinville. There is a Y in the road - I have always taken the right, go about a kilometer, and the train just ends - need to skip laterally a few blocks and behold there is the trail that goes where I want to go!
Well, the Y is the beginning of where the burke gilman and the sammamish river trail parallel each other for about a kilometer - by taking the left instead of a right I shift trails without having to use city streets to cross from one to the other. You'd think there'd be a sign or something which explained it at the intersection, or a sign at the end of the burk gilman saying "sammammish river trail <-- that way" but no biggie now.

The worst part of the ride is the ~10km leading up to marymoore park. It is straight, boring, and every single time the boringness of it leads me to start focusing on how good I'm not feeling at that point. Add a little bit of irony - Redmond touts that it is the biking capitol of the state - while at the same time the trail is in the worst shape there. The long stretch reminds me of when I was doing the honolulu marathon and as far as I could see down a perfectly straight boulevard there are marathoners stretched miles before me. It is disheartening simply by giving the illusion that there is no end in sight... Well technically that is exactly correct. If I had given up on the marathon, this would have been where.

Total travel time was 3 minutes 31 seconds faster. I figure 90 seconds faster due to the shorter route, and 2 minutes faster by biking more of the hill at the end then I did last time.

My average speed was slower up to marymoore, but I finished stronger on the hill at the end.

Marymoore waypoint:
1:30:52 hours
30.84 k
20.3 average kph

Finish
1:50:51 hours
34.25 k
18.5 average kph

Lunch:
It is an hour after lunch. Overall I feel good and alert.
A bunch of us went to Cafe Ori. I usually don't like chinese fare, but I like Cafe Ori. It usually leaves me feeling over fed, but I find it unique in that it does not put me to sleep. I have gas now - too bad I don't know what gave me the gas cause other than that the food agreed with me very well.