May Bike Vs Car

I’ve decided to adjust the challenge a bit since I’m no longer working in Seattle. There just aren’t as many opportunities to gather commute miles when you live 1.5 miles from work (yes, I love it). I’ve decided to start keeping track of walking miles and riding miles both. They’ll then be combined into a new category called “leg powered”, and compared with my driving miles.

I should also point out that I’m only logging “leg powered” miles if they’re done in place of driving. For example, I went on a ride to Everett the other day just to get out in the sunny weather. I didn’t count that trip, because I wouldn’t have driven to Everett just for fun <insert joke about the city here>.

Hannah doesn’t agree with this tracking method, but I don’t want to start going on “carbon credit” rides/walks/runs just to catch up to my miles driven allotment.  I’d rather focus on reducing the number of solo trips I take in the car.

May Miles

I did a lot of driving by myself this month.  Part of it was because our new bundle of joy takes a good amount of preparing before a car trip, and it’s much easier to do several quick solo trips to the store instead of everyone going together on one longer trip.  Part of it was training and participating in Ski to Sea (hopefully,  I’ll have some video of my stage of the race up soon), and a big chunk came on an unexpected trip home from Anacortes to Edmonds.

Driving: 159.8 miles

Riding: 12 miles
Walking: 51 miles

Leg Powered: 63 miles

Overall

Driving: 693.3 miles

Leg Powered: 752.7 miles

Riding: 701.7 miles

Walking: 51 miles

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