mid-day at the market

Wednesday, April 07, 2004, at 12:31PM

By Eric Richardson

With my renewed bike kick still swinging (it is only day three, after all), yesterday I got it in my mind that I wanted to ride from USC to the Farmers' Market. Today I did that. It's only 6.75 miles, and there's no appreciable elevation change end-to-end, so it's not that bad of a ride. The bikemetro route put me up Vermont to Olympic, west on Olympic to Hauser, up Hauser to Burnside, and then west on 3rd for a block or two. Aside from the fact that Burnside's an apartment complex and not a street these days, that route worked out well. I didn't pay attention to what time I left on the way there, but I clocked the way back at 34 minutes. In any traffic I'd expect it to take 20 in a car.

Wireless internet at the farmers market was down -- the lady at SitckerPlanet said it was out for upgrades -- so I didn't get a ton accomplished. I finished up a paper and did sit and just write for a bit, which was fun. I've put what I wrote up in thoughts as Mid-Day at the Farmers' Market.