Tag: cycling

  • 400,82

    while endlessly proud of himself, siggimus is quite possibly & probably dead

    on the last day of cycle to work, he somehow managed to go 77,55 km, bringing the grand total for those 13 days to 400,82 km

    but how did siggimus do it? what’s the secret?

    superhuman strength was involved, of course, but mostly it was fed by an overgrown stubbornness, that inability to surrender to the facts and admit defeat, even in the face of death or serious mutilation

    in short, during cycle to work 2010, siggimus managed to:

    ps: now with updates!

    • cycle all 13 days
    • get a bit ‘lost’ a few times
    • do 400,82 km total
    • which took 21:13:28 in the saddle
    • … an average of 30,83 km per day
    • … and 170,38 km more than last year
    • … which took an average of 01:37:57 per day
    • eat 7 flies
    • … an average of 0,53846 flies per day
    • go about 50% over his goal of 20 km per day
    • do 216,32 km over the ‘necessary’ 182 km (14 per day)
    • have a shortest day of 17,35 km (only one way)
    • longest day was 77,55 km
    • longest day took 04:40:09
    • have only one flat tire
    • discover that cycling 14 km with a bottle of pepsi will shake it violently
    • discover that violently shaking a bottle of pepsi will make it squirt violently upon opening
    • discover that half a bottle of pepsi is not a lot when you’re very thirsty

    yay!

    you’ll find all the juicy bits (read: uninteresting anal details) here

    (feel free — nay, feel obliged! — to lavish all kinds of praise on siggimus for this feat in comments down under)

  • Extremely proud, but quite possibly dead. Cycled 77 km today, bringing the total for 13 days of cycle to work just over 400 km. pu ha!

    Thinking of taking the car tomorrow…

  • salagrill



    salagrill, originally uploaded by siggimus.

    erm … kópavogur?!?

  • shaken



    shaken, originally uploaded by siggimus.

    & spilt 🙁

    turns out it’s not such an excellent idea to store your pepsi in your bike-bag as you whoosh around metropolises on your trusty steed

  • ship



    ship, originally uploaded by siggimus.

    on dry land

  • 300

    300, originally uploaded by siggimus.

    on the occasion of passing 300 km total in ctw, siggimus thought it only fitting to reach max speed 300,0 km/h

  • hannes detour

    so, en route to work this morning, a wee detour was made, going to álftanes for breakfast-hannes, some 16 km either way

    not a big deal, you may say, but take into account the wind & rain & the fact that maybe 500-1.000 metres from hannes location, siggimus got a puncture, a flat, a deflated rear tire

    luckily, colleague (& superhero) geir had patches & helped with swift repair before heading to work

    route (click for larger):

    cycling hannes
    cycling hannes

    (shorter line is driving route – longer, squiggly bit is route siggimus cycled)

    so, while siggimus isn’t quite sure how he managed, he somehow managed to cycle 37,3 kms this morning, taking 1:47:21 doing it, averaging 20,8 km/h

  • puncture



    puncture, originally uploaded by siggimus.

    just the thing when you’re 16 km from work

  • not a photo

    not a photo, originally uploaded by siggimus.

    of siggimus cycling, but a photo of a drawing of siggimus cycling. self-portrait, if you will

    what gives it away? siggimus isn’t wearing a helmet

    (pretty obvious actually, that it’s not a photo. the only thing siggimus can draw photo-realistically is sheep)

  • 36 bikes, 3 cars

    36 bikes, 3 cars, originally uploaded by siggimus.

    a bitter, bitter, bitter disappointment…

    3 cars??!

  • living on the edge


    living on the edge, originally uploaded by siggimus.

    painfully aware that great danger & peril await him at every turn of the pedal, siggimus still bravely cycles on, against the wind