Faster on the way home?

Luigi de Guzman <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Anyone else find that they're faster on the way home from work than on the
way to work?

I'm usually faster in the afternoon. In the morning, my muscles are cold and
my fuel supply is low.

Luigi de Guzman said:

So someone explain this to me.

Anyway, I was very slow, maybe 11 mph average over 4 miles. Traffic was
light.

On the way home, I was 3.5 mph *faster* over the same distance, in heavier

Anyone else find that they're faster on the way home from work than on the
way to work?

Absolutely. I ride 25 miles to work at 20-21mph ... then fly home in 5
minutes (seems like) at 24. Then I bounce off the walls for the rest
of the night and can't get to sleep until 3am.

dl

dkl said:

Quoted message said:

Anyone else find that they're faster on the way home from work than on the
way to work?

Absolutely. I ride 25 miles to work at 20-21mph ... then fly home in 5
minutes (seems like) at 24. Then I bounce off the walls for the rest
of the night and can't get to sleep until 3am.

dl

It would appear I have (literally) a long way to go yet.

-Luigi

Was the wind with you on your ride home and against you on your ride to
work? Where I live the wind usually is from the west and my ride to work is
going east so I go a few more miles per hour faster to work.

"Luigi de Guzman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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So someone explain this to me.

Woke up this morning and got on my bike on the way to work. I meant to
ride all the way in, but some serious chainsuck convinced me that maybe I
should abandon early and take the metro--my boss would probably not be OK
with the "but I had a mechanical and had to walk!" excuse.

Anyway, I was very slow, maybe 11 mph average over 4 miles. Traffic was
light.

On the way home, I was 3.5 mph *faster* over the same distance, in heavier
traffic, and uphill all the way. Fast enough that when I passed another
guy on a bike, he said "Aw, now yer just showin' off!." (quite a
compliment to this fat [censored], after I huffed it up the steepest hill on
my route).

Anyone else find that they're faster on the way home from work than on the
way to work?

-Luigi

"Luigi de Guzman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Anyone else find that they're faster on the way home from work than on the
way to work?

Never. Not only am I bagged after a 12 but homeward is up hill.

"Luigi de Guzman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

So someone explain this to me.

Woke up this morning and got on my bike on the way to work. I meant to
ride all the way in, but some serious chainsuck convinced me that maybe I
should abandon early and take the metro--my boss would probably not be OK
with the "but I had a mechanical and had to walk!" excuse.

Anyway, I was very slow, maybe 11 mph average over 4 miles. Traffic was
light.

On the way home, I was 3.5 mph *faster* over the same distance, in heavier
traffic, and uphill all the way. Fast enough that when I passed another
guy on a bike, he said "Aw, now yer just showin' off!." (quite a
compliment to this fat [censored], after I huffed it up the steepest hill on
my route).

Simple. You're obviously keener to get home than you are to go to work.

It's the magnets in the beer.

Luigi de Guzman said:

So someone explain this to me.

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Anyone else find that they're faster on the way home from work than on the
way to work?

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Luigi de Guzman said:

Anyone else find that they're faster on the way home from work than on the
way to work?

I'm usually faster on the a.m., but that's because (1) I'm running
late; (2) it's downhill to work; and (3) I usually meander and explore
in the p.m.

RFM
http://www.cyclelicio.us/

I purposely ride slowly to work so I am not hot and sweaty when I get
there. I don't care as much at the end of the day when I am at home.

Ted

Ted said:

I purposely ride slowly to work so I am not hot and sweaty when I get
there. I don't care as much at the end of the day when I am at home.

Funny -- I always seem to be hotter and sweatier (in warm weather) on
my slow ride in to work in the morning than I am in the evening coming
home. And it's somewhat downhill to work, uphill home (maybe 10-20m -
not much.)

I think it's my breathing. I've had bronchitis since February or so,
and it's the limiting factor in the morning. With a few Italian Roast
or Blue Mountain coffees in me in the PM, I don't have any O2 or "cold
chest" issues.

Luigi de Guzman wrote:
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Anyone else find that they're faster on the way home from work than on the
way to work?

-Luigi

I do not commute (at all; I don't have a 9-to-5) but I always cycle around town
instead of going by car (which I haven't even started since last November), and
I am always faster - feel stronger - on the way home. i.e. when I've been on
the bike for a while. The only exception to the faster rule is when there is
wind. Most errands take me due east, 3-5 miles down a bike path, and the
homeward leg is almost always *against* the wind.

--
Michael

Luigi de Guzman asked:

Quoted message said:

Anyone else find that they're faster on the way home from work
than on the way to work?

Yes, I do, and I'm sure that both the 300-foot drop in elevation and the
prevailing afternoon tailwind are jointly responsible for it.

--
"Bicycling is a healthy and manly pursuit with much
to recommend it, and, unlike other foolish crazes,
it has not died out." -- The Daily Telegraph (1877)

Luigi de Guzman said:

So someone explain this to me.

Woke up this morning and got on my bike on the way to work. I meant to
ride all the way in, but some serious chainsuck convinced me that maybe I
should abandon early and take the metro--my boss would probably not be OK
with the "but I had a mechanical and had to walk!" excuse.

Last week I had a major blowout where the tire bead separated from the
tire for a space of about three inches. Totally unfixable, even with
duct tape. Plus the tube was totally shredded. It was about three
miles from work. I stopped and got change for the bus from a shop about
a mile down the ride. I was about an hour late. :-p

Luckily one of the my coworkers wanted to go to Performance for some
things so I picked up a new tire on my lunch break.

Quoted message said:

Anyway, I was very slow, maybe 11 mph average over 4 miles. Traffic was
light.

On the way home, I was 3.5 mph *faster* over the same distance, in heavier
traffic, and uphill all the way. Fast enough that when I passed another
guy on a bike, he said "Aw, now yer just showin' off!." (quite a
compliment to this fat [censored], after I huffed it up the steepest hill on
my route).

Anyone else find that they're faster on the way home from work than on the
way to work?

Absolutely. Part of it is the 200 feet elevation difference, but a
bigger part is blood sugar. My blood sugar in the morning is always
low, so it takes me a while to get up to speed. Yeah hypoglycemia.

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I am slower on the way to work, too. My route to work is longer and uphill.
I go slower as not to really tax myself before a long day at work. My route
home is downhill, and I am usually anxious to get home, and I'm burning off
a day's worth of stress.