National Bike Month- Week 1

Well, it was a wet first week for National Bike Month, but still the bike commuting stalwarts slogged through! Here's a recap of the week, with a special highlight of WWBPA member Whit Anderson.

Total miles biked (from those who reported in): 532 miles

Featured bike commuter: Whit Anderson (WWBPA member). Whit logged, or slogged, 50 miles for the week, biking every day on his 10 mile round trip. This week, Whit felt more like a drowned rat than a bike commuter. Whit, an Oceanographer (and luckily used to water) bikes every day to work, all year long to his job at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton Forrestal . To see Whit's commuting route from his home in Princeton Junction please visit this site www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/My-commute147827. Bikely is a cool interactive site that lets you map and follow a bike commute route.

Ken Carlson (WWBPA Trustee): 65 miles for the week. Bike commuted Wed-Friday, from his home near Rabbit Hill Road to Dey Road in Cranbury, usually a 9 mile route, but threw in some extra training miles. Didn't get rained on once (somehow)!!

Jessica and Deniz Dagci (WWBPA Friends): 64 miles (32 miles each). The Dagci's live on Washington Road in WW and commute by bike four days a week to Princeton (6 miles roundtrip), plus once a week an 8 mile trip to the grocery store. They live car-free. Way to go Dagci's!!

Bruce Ellsworth (WWBPA Member): 42 miles to work on two commutes

Bill Garrett: (WWBPA Friend): 74 miles (including 17 miles from Friday May 1). "My roundtrip distance is 16 miles. I ride through Mercer County Park for a ways. It’s nice to have to look out for deer and rabbits rather than cars and trucks. Last week, on my way home from work, I rode to my polling place to vote."

Kirill Karperson (WWBPA Friend): 14 miles. Bike commuted Friday from his home near McCaffery's to and from Carnegie Center. His route can be found here: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=62+Saratoga+Dr+N,+Princeton+Junction,+NJ+08550&daddr=Lanwin+Blvd+to:Woodmere+Way+to:40.308527,-74.624248+to:210+Carnegie+Center,+Princeton,+NJ+08540&geocode=%3BFRauZgIdnp-N-w%3BFWnLZgIdMm6N-w%3B%3B&view=map&hl=en&gl=us&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=3&sz=16&via=1,2,3&sll=40.307709,-74.622145&sspn=0.012763,0.020556&ie=UTF8&ll=40.317297,-74.635105&spn=0.012761,0.020556&z=16

Matt Martin (WWBPA Member): 12 miles (three days of commuting). "My daily bike commute is shorter these days due to the fact that we moved to a house closer to the Princeton Junction train station (where I then take the train to Jersey City). I now have a daily bike commute of just 4 miles round trip. Also, I was glad to recently get one of those great bike lockers at the train station, which makes the biking experience even more enjoyable"

Dan Rappaport (WWBPA member): 9.5 miles on Friday

Paul Shapiro (WWBPA member): 64 miles. Two days of bike commuting. Paul lives in West Windsor and works in Philadelphia and several days a week parks at Cornwalis Heights off of Rt 95 and bikes 16 miles to work.

Ben Tufford (WWBPA Friend): 132 miles for the week (three days of commuting)

Henry Van Cotter: (WWBPA member): 65 miles. A wet week! Highpoint: Followed a great blue heron on tow of the mornings. Lowpoint: Car ran a stop sign and forced Van to maneuver into the opposing lane (luckily no cars were coming)

Jeanne Weinmann (WWBPA Friend): 30 miles for the week. Biked Monday-Wednesday, and Friday, to and from Community Middle School on a 6 mile round trip route.

Hopefully next week will be drier and we will get more reports from these bike commuters and others. Please spread the word! Let's see if we can beat last year's 1400 mile mark for May!