commuting

My Bike Route Home (Sort Of)

My Bike Route Home (Sort Of)

Tracked with my DG-100 GPS logger, mapped on Google Earth. Missing the bit at the end, and there's about 0.8 KM that didn't get tracked? See my calculation based on Google Maps, also the map of photos taken on this particular trip.

Google Earth of My Bus Trip to Work

Google Earth of My Bus Trip to Work

The 135 rides straight down Hastings. Tracked with Sports Tracker and a Nokia N95.

My Bike Commute is 10.8 KM One Way, 8.5 the Other Way

September 17th, 2007

You know how people exaggerate the olden days by saying they had to walk to school uphill both ways? Well my biking commute is almost like that: on the way to work it's downhill most of the way save for an uphill climb at Lakewood Drive, where on the way back it's uphill approaching Commercial, then downhill after Renfrew and then back uphill, then, saving the worst for last, a steep uphill climb at Boundary and Union in Burnaby. Like Roland, I drew my bike route on Google Maps, but I drew both my to and from work routes. (To work is in red, from work is in blue.) According to Google Calculator, my commute to work is 10.8 KM, and 8.5 KM back home. (I typed in "6.71 miles in kilometers" and "5.31 miles in kilometers" and rounded off the answers.) Because there are more hills on the shorter route, both directions take about the same time, from 45 minutes to an hour each. Two Google maps after the break.

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