What a miserable slob I must be. This is the shortest ride I can take, and it’s all I can do sometime to get through it.
It’s just over 2 miles, so it only takes about 15 minutes, but none of it’s flat. There are grades going both ways on both the in and outbound legs. I am re-learning how to pedal standing up (even with 18 gears, it’s no fun trying to stay seated and crank up these grades).
If this was the Burke-Gilman trail, I could do all 12 miles in no time at all: I share the locomotive’s disdain for hill-climbing. If I had a bike-rack, I would do just that. The 70th street access point to Tracy Owens station in Kenmore is about 6 miles, less than an hour there and back.