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  1. How long does it take ride from Acadia (CA) to Los Angles (CA)? Does anyone done that?

  2. In article <[email hidden]>,

    mckim said:

    How long does it take ride from Acadia (CA) to Los Angles (CA)? Does anyone
    done that?

    You just need to find someone who has ridden from Acadia to Florida, and
    another person who has done Florida to California. The root of the sum
    of the inverse of the squares of their times is the time it would have
    taken them to get from Acadia to LA, thanks to Pythagoras' theorem.

    Or you could punch some numbers into the gmaps pedometer. Seriously, the
    time will be entirely limited by how fast you are on long trips.
    Somewhere between 2 weeks and 2 months would be a good guess.

    --
    Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
    "I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
    to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

  3. Quoted message said:

    How long does it take ride from Acadia (CA) to Los Angles (CA)? Does
    anyone done that?

    Do you mean "Arcadia"? I am not familiar with Acadia. Depending on where you
    want to arrive in L.A., it's about 20 miles. So, that means an hour or two,
    depending on your route and speed.

    --
    Warm Regards,

    Claire Petersky
    http://www.bicyclemeditations.org/
    See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky

  4. mckim said:

    How long does it take ride from Acadia (CA) to Los Angles (CA)? Does anyone done that?

    Acadia? DYM Arcadia, perhaps? That run's done by various people on a
    fairly regular basis; how long it would take for *you* depends on
    which starting and finishing points are involved, what route you take,
    and most important, your own ability as a cyclist. I know people who
    could easily do it in under an hour from city center to city center,
    and others who would DNF for a variety of reasons. In between is the
    vast majority who would take varying amounts of time.
    --
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  5. Claire Petersky said:
    Quoted message said:

    How long does it take ride from Acadia (CA) to Los Angles (CA)? Does
    anyone done that?

    Do you mean "Arcadia"? I am not familiar with Acadia. Depending on where you
    want to arrive in L.A., it's about 20 miles. So, that means an hour or two,
    depending on your route and speed.

    If you can ride from Acadia [1] to Los Angeles in an hour or two, you
    are an EXTREMELY FAST cyclist!

    [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia>.

    --
    Tom Sherman - Here, not there.

  6. Isn't that where the Cajuns were from originally?

  7. Leo Lichtman said:

    Isn't that where the Cajuns were from originally?

    It is theorized that "Cajun" is a corruption of "Acadian".

    --
    Tom Sherman - Here, not there.

  8. In article <[email hidden]>,

    Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman said:
    Claire Petersky said:
    Quoted message said:

    How long does it take ride from Acadia (CA) to Los Angles (CA)? Does
    anyone done that?

    Do you mean "Arcadia"? I am not familiar with Acadia. Depending on where you
    want to arrive in L.A., it's about 20 miles. So, that means an hour or two,
    depending on your route and speed.

    If you can ride from Acadia [1] to Los Angeles in an hour or two, you
    are an EXTREMELY FAST cyclist!

    [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia>.

    Huh. The funny thing is that since Acadia is in Canada, I totally
    assumed the OP was making a play on the abbreviations, but sincerely
    asking about riding from Nova Scotia, Canada, to LA, California.

    In retrospect, I suppose they did mean Arcadia.

    To get from Acadia to LA in an hour or two, you would have to be an
    extremely fast jet aircraft.

    --
    Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
    "I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
    to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

  9. "mckim" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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    From Arcadia Park (Santa Anita Ave & Huntington Dr) to LA City Hall...

    17.89 miles

    Check... http://www.bikemetro.com/home/home.asp

    Similar to Mapquest but for bicycles; Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and
    San Bernardino Counties.

    With the correct settngs it will include Class 1, 2 and 3 bike routes if
    available.

    Another good So Cal website is:
    http://labikepaths.com/

    A good choice if this is a commute, take the Gold Line, $3.00;
    Ride your bike to the Sierra Madre station catch the Gold Line to Union
    Station, then either take one the other metro lines towards your final
    destination or jump back on your bike and ride from there.

    Rich

  10. Ryan Cousineau <[email hidden]> wrote in
    news:[email hidden]:

    Quoted message said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,

    Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman said:
    Claire Petersky said:

    > How long does it take ride from Acadia (CA) to Los Angles (CA)?
    > Does anyone done that?

    Do you mean "Arcadia"? I am not familiar with Acadia. Depending on
    where you want to arrive in L.A., it's about 20 miles. So, that
    means an hour or two, depending on your route and speed.

    If you can ride from Acadia [1] to Los Angeles in an hour or two, you
    are an EXTREMELY FAST cyclist!

    [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia>.

    Huh. The funny thing is that since Acadia is in Canada, I totally
    assumed the OP was making a play on the abbreviations, but sincerely
    asking about riding from Nova Scotia, Canada, to LA, California.

    In retrospect, I suppose they did mean Arcadia.

    To get from Acadia to LA in an hour or two, you would have to be an
    extremely fast jet aircraft.

    I presume that the city the OP is refering to is Arcadia, California.
    Arcadia is the city just to the east of Pasadena at the base of the San
    Gabriel Mountains.

    An excellent School district with an excellent music program.
    See the marching band in action.


    (I can't help it, I'm a band dad...)

    Rich

  11. Ryan Cousineau <[email hidden]> wrote in news:rcousine-
    [email hidden]:

    Quoted message said:

    To get from Acadia to LA in an hour or two, you would have to be an
    extremely fast jet aircraft.

    Actually, the only thing that's fast enough (as far as the public knows) is
    the Space Shuttle.

    The fastest "known" aircraft (the SR-71) set a speed record of 59 minutes
    from NY to LA. A shorter distance than from Nova Scotia to LA. Of course,
    that was as fast as they let the SR-71 fly while the public was watching.
    Its actual top speed is classified, as is the speed of anything that might
    be faster.

    Cheers,
    David

  12. On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:14:24 GMT, Ryan Cousineau <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,

    mckim said:

    How long does it take ride from Acadia (CA) to Los Angles (CA)? Does anyone
    done that?

    You just need to find someone who has ridden from Acadia to Florida, and
    another person who has done Florida to California. The root of the sum
    of the inverse of the squares of their times is the time it would have
    taken them to get from Acadia to LA, thanks to Pythagoras' theorem.

    ITYM "root of the sum of the squares"; the "inverse of the" is
    spurious.

    Quoted message said:

    Or you could punch some numbers into the gmaps pedometer. Seriously, the
    time will be entirely limited by how fast you are on long trips.
    Somewhere between 2 weeks and 2 months would be a good guess.

    Two weeks would be RAAM with generous sleep breaks, and meals while
    stopped. Two months is a decent pace for the distance (3700+ miles,
    depending on the route chosen) if a loaded tourer is employed.
    --
    Typoes are a feature, not a bug.
    Some gardening required to reply via email.
    Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.

  13. "Werehatrack" wrote: ITYM "root of the sum of the squares"; the "inverse
    of the" is spurious.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    Spurious, redundant or misapplied. There is a proper application of
    "inverse squares." It has to do with the rate of fall-off of a variable on
    a spherical wave front.

  14. Leo Lichtman said:

    "Werehatrack" wrote: ITYM "root of the sum of the squares"; the "inverse
    of the" is spurious.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    Spurious, redundant or misapplied. There is a proper application of
    "inverse squares." It has to do with the rate of fall-off of a variable on
    a spherical wave front.

    You took the words right outa my mouth, Leo. =]

  15. In article <[email hidden]>,

    Werehatrack said:

    On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:14:24 GMT, Ryan Cousineau <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,

    mckim said:

    How long does it take ride from Acadia (CA) to Los Angles (CA)? Does
    anyone
    done that?

    You just need to find someone who has ridden from Acadia to Florida, and
    another person who has done Florida to California. The root of the sum
    of the inverse of the squares of their times is the time it would have
    taken them to get from Acadia to LA, thanks to Pythagoras' theorem.

    ITYM "root of the sum of the squares"; the "inverse of the" is
    spurious.

    Ooops. I'm probably the only person here with a story from my life that
    provides credible evidence that I know the Pythagorean theorem in my
    sleep, but when it came to giving the measure in time instead of
    distance, I had some sort of bad brain fade.

    I know roughly what I was trying to do by inverting the terms, but it
    was wrong, and too stupid to explain.

    Math jokes are only funny if they're good math,

    --
    Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
    "I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
    to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

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