It's so much better when I don't hit that first light on Church & Fulton. Not being stuck behind the buses and garbage trucks -- being able to fly right past all that is something I don't take for granted. Some of the stop-and-go stuff is the killer and it mostly happens in the evening as opposed to the morning because I'm in the street. Legs feel pretty good all things considered -- I ran moderately during lunch on top of existing soreness but the worst of it is over.
New schedule is good I am sure that it will be even better as the Fall approaches. Making an earlier train is always a plus.
As I ride I still glance left through the window of the GNC at 15th Street to see what kind of clearance stuff they have -- last week they had Titan protein bars (3 combined boxes for $5 total). But it's not like I need the stuff now it's a bad force of habit -- but I can think of worse habits to have.
Making the left onto 31st Street -- I've touched upon this before -- is the WORST. I am pretty sure that the sequence in "Terminator 3" where the crane was dragged by a truck through the city was not filmed in NY, but you'd think so with all the potholes and steel doors between 6th & 7th. Hey DOT Acting Commissioner Stanley Gee -- that one's directed at you!
As I finally got to the light at 7th Ave., just across the street from my destination, some bald meathead was walking with that meathead "I'll fuck you up"-look while holding on to his gallon of water. It didn't look like he was going to stop in to the relentless traffic. I thought he was going to go for it and walk through it but he wimped out. I laughed loudly right near the tough guy -- I didn't want him to fuck me up -- and made my way back in to dungeon so the dragon-snake could whisk me back home.
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