Prawny - officially SLOWER than a bus.

Busted!

Come on, Prawny. You can't go letting the side down like this.

That is officially shocking.

I cycled in on Monday, my shower at work took the same amount of time as a shower at home. I took 46 minutes from door to Bikeaway. With a brief stop in the lift on the Tay Road Bridge. Plus around 5 minutes into the office

Wind slowed me down a bit and my record is around 36 minutes

This morning I set off from the house at 0755hrs, I got on the bus that arrives at the top of the road a 10min walk away at 0805hrs, I sat on said bus until it dropped me at the door of my work at 0905hrs (10 mins late), then a 5 minute walk into the office.

Should I decide to drive, it will take around 20 minutes and then a 10 minute walk into the office due to the location of the staff car park, that is if I get a good run, 30 minutes or more if traffic is queued up on the bridge or the lights go against me

The catch for the cycling is I have 2 hill sections that put me in the Granny gear and crawling at <6kmh.

Travelling calculations ignoring walking
Bike 13.6km in 45 minutes = 18.33kmh
Bike 13.6km in 36 minutes = 22.67kmh
Bus 13.6km in 1hr = 13.6kmh
Bus 13.6km in 50mins = 16.32kmh
Car 13.6km in 20 mins = 40.8kmh
Car 13.6km in 30 mins = 27.2kmh
(All about the same length despite differing routes)

This means I only need to find another 5kmh over the 14km to be faster than driving, and the bus is pretty much a joke (Roadworks around the bridge landfall have for once given Dundee traffic jams.)

On the way home on Monday I was finding the 48kmh descent into a headwind down the hill interesting, but the push it gave me along to the bridge was immense, similar speed so 16kmh more than I would usually get along there

Not bad since I've gone back over 15 stone, damn Flu...

Oh yeah and Prawny, you suck