Follow up and fall out

An appropriate follow up to my post of the article from Slate on the need for more bicycle parking can be found here. In DC, they are building a bike storage and service facility outside Union Station. An interesting design that sort of mimics the canopies being placed over the Metro stop entrances.

In other areas of interest, I went for my first bike "ride" in a long time yesterday. I was supposed to get a lift downtown for a meeting but received a call saying it wasn't going to work out. It has been incredibly beautiful and I was pinched for time so I jumped on my road bike. Man, did my body react - knees started hurting, back started spasming. Oh, what a few weeks off and a change in physical exercise routine will do. I am looking forward to a weekend of canoeing and then some mileage next week with my brother to ease back into things. There's talk of circumnavigating Seneca Lake, somewhere in the ball park of 75 miles round trip I believe.