Summer Biking: Week 3

Look a happy little turtle!

I have a new resolve to bike as much as I can without driving myself crazy. I am still hoping to see 1500 miles, but I am taking the pressure off myself. I will do what I can do as long as I am enjoying it. I might even start taking a day off here and there!

This week I took pictures of gas stations. I was surprised when I realized how many Holiday stations are nearby. There is at least one more I could have ridden to on a week with more time to ride. So below you see three different Holiday stations, two Marathons, a Super America, a BP and a Go For It Gas. 

Here is something else that I found interesting:

Remember this from April 26th?

And how on May 5th that area looked like this? 

Well now it looks like this.

Miles This Week:  37.87

Total Miles June:  98.41

Total Miles 2013: 566.01

Total Miles/Points for National Bike Challenge:  404.92/1342

Miles Needed for 1500 Mile Goal:  933.99

Days in a row of biking: 77

Days in a row of yoga: 77

Summer Biking: Week 2

Oh what a pitiful riding week I have had. I expected my rides to be shorter since I was working, but the cool wet weather has not helped at all either. I only succeeded in 31.1 miles this week. Oh well, there is always next week. I did break 500 miles this week though! Yay me!!

Since I did not ride very far on Monday, I was a bit limited on subjects to take pictures of this week. All I came across that seemed interesting was a For Sale sign. I though I might see something else on Tuesday, but I did not. So I decided to go with For Sale signs. In the end I sort of like how the collage turned out. Sadly, some of the pictures are very blurry and I was not able to pull all of the data off them. Thus I was not able to link to their websites.  I will be a bit more careful taking pictures next week

CU Companies Realty

Bridge Realty - This is the realator for the Hmong Church I had a picture of last week. 

Exit Realty Nexus

Weichert Realtors

Vandeveer Realty – I find it odd that this guy has a Wikipedia entry.

Counselor Realty

 – Larry & Mary Lauer

– Duane & Larysa Matzek

ReMax

Real Estate Properties – MnHomeSpot.com

ReMaxx Results – Jerry Clifford

Grace Realty – This one needs a much better web presence.  Though, I would use them before the creepy guy with a Wikipedia entry.

Edina Realty

– Wm (Bill) Haroldson

Prudential Sundial Realty

Side note:  mapping is not working the way I had intended. If I can get it to work I will update this post with a map.

Miles This Week:  31.1

Total Miles June:  60.54

Total Miles 2013: 528.14

Total Miles/Points for National Bike Challenge: 367.05/1164

Miles Needed for 1500 Mile Goal:  971.86

Days in a row of biking: 70

Days in a row of yoga: 70

Summer Biking: Week 1 - And the biking continues.

National Bike Month may be over, but I am still riding my bike. The National Bike Challenge is still going strong and I still need to meet my goal of 1500 miles by October 31. Instead of logging miles on the blog everyday, however, I am only going to post an update of my rides on Sundays. I will only update a single day’s ride if something extremely interesting happens.

I will continue to take photos of interesting sights, but I am also going to have a theme each week. This Sunday, since it only covers two days, I chose religious buildings as a theme. I knew that even in just two days I could manage to pass several. I say “religious buildings” instead of “churches” because I have two Buddhist buildings and a Chapel to include and they do not technically fall under the “church” category.

From left to right starting at the upper left we have: 

Presbyterian Church of the Master

Chapel at Morningside Memorial Gardens

Chùa Thièn Àn – This appears to be a Vietnamese Buddhist Youth Organization

King of Glory Lutheran Church

Cross of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church

Minnesota Meditation Center – They do not have a website for this location. Here is a link to the main body.

Peace Lutheran Church

Blaine United Methodist

Blaine Baptist Church

Hmong Alliance Church – They do not seem to have a website for this location. Here is a link for the main church body.  This might be because their building at this location is for sale. I was quite sad to see this, because this church is quite close to us and has always been a very good neighbor.

I haven't decided what I will take pictures of next week. I suspect there will be several more weeks of churches to come, though probably not for next week. It might be slides, tennis courts, funky mail boxes or gas stations. We will just have to see.

6-1 is in red and 6-2 is in black. 29.22 miles. 

Miles This Week:  29.44

Total Miles June:  29.44

Total Miles 2013: 497.04

Total Miles/Points for National Bike Challenge: 335.95/993

Miles Needed for 1500 Mile Goal:  1002.96

Days in a row of biking: 63

Days in a row of yoga: 63