Author Archives: Jeremy Cole

Officially Crazy, and an Alternate Route

Well, I’m officially one of the crazies now, as I biked directly to work today! I took the route I had planned, although I missed the turn at Evelyn, so I took Reed all the way to Fair Oaks. That added a bit of extra time and mileage. My stats for today were:

  • Distance: 13.8 miles
  • Avg. Speed: 10.1 mph
  • Max. Speed: 30.0 mph
  • Time Taken: 1h 22m

Ryan suggested an alternate route along the San Tomas Aquino/Saratoga Creek Trail, which I’ll investigate and possibly try out (if I can get on it somewhere South of Highway 101, perfect).

I made it!

I tested out my planned route today with my bike, and picked up my Jeep, which I left at Yahoo on Thursday when I had to fly out to Portland.

Here are the stats for the ride from home to Yahoo:

  • Distance: 13.3 miles
  • Avg. Speed: 10.2 mph
  • Max. Speed: 27.1 mph
  • Time Taken: 1h 18m

In addition, I rode a few laps around Yahoo after I got there, to bring my total ride up to 15.5 miles, since my goal for today was 15+ miles.

Setting Brakes to “On”

The SFO Airtrain which connects you to BART has these poorly thought-out announcements:

The train is about to depart. Please hold on. Please set your luggage cart brake to “on”.

That seems fine when you read it, but imagine it as an announcement. The quotes just don’t come through. What’s wrong with like, “Please set your luggage cart brake”, or “Please engage your luggage cart brake”, or even “Please lock your luggage cart brake”.

Don’t you realize your announcement sounds stupid?

Thirteen Miles

So I used GMaps Pedometer today to map a possible route to bike all the way to work (which is my goal). Come to find out, it’s only 13.2 miles! I expected it would be more like 17 miles. I am so on it!

Check out the bike-safe route map I created:

Start at 942 Willowleaf Dr., San Jose, CA
Left on Leigh Ave.
Left on Fruitdale Ave.
Right on Bascom Ave.
Left on Moorpark Ave.
Right on San Tomas Expressway
Left on Monroe St.
Continue onto Reed Ave (cross Lawrence Expressway)
Right on E. Evelyn Ave.
Right on N. Fair Oaks Ave.
Right on Ahwanee Ave.
Take Pedestrian Overpass (over Highway 101)
Right on N. Fair Oaks Ave.
Continue onto E. Java Dr. (cross Highway 237)
Continue onto W. Java Dr. (cross N. Borregas Ave.)
Right into Yahoo Offices

Pretty easy!