Working too hard

Today was just a hard day. Granted, none of the things that I do was forced upon me, and this isn’t done in a war-torn region… okay, never mind. I was a wimp today. I biked in the morning to school, about 14 miles in a 23 degrees weather (Fahrenheit, people. That means you have to subtract 32 and then multiply the product by 5/9 in order to convert to Celsius,) got all sweaty, graded Math A regents all day, got hungry, biked back home in the dark (4 flashing lights and a vest, oh yeah, you don’t screw around with this stuff when you gotta weave in and out of traffic in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn,) and just as climbing up a very low gradient hill from the 5th avenue to Prospect Park West on the 3rd Street in Park Slope, I bonked. What the hell!

• Trip Odom 28.0 miles
• Max Speed 27.0 miles
• Moving Time 2 hrs 19 minutes
• Moving Average 12.1 miles per hour
• Stopped 24 minutes 22 seconds (got a flat in the back tire about 0.5 miles into riding in the freezing morning - it takes time with gloves on, and then I had to lubricate the right pedal on the way back to stop the annoying squeaking sound)
• Overall Average 10.3 miles per hour
• Total Time 2 hours 43 minutes
• Total Ascent 1130 feet
• Max Elevation 289 feet