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Tthis week I discovered a free commuter parking lot in west Arlington. Bonus! Free parking, no grumpy notes left on my windshield from neighborhood residents, a couple extra miles biking each day.

Then I discovered, on Thursday evening, after leaving work late and stopping by Flat Top Johnny's for a beer with the co-workers, that the sign which says "parking 7:30am-6:30pm" really means "parking until 6:30pm, at which time the lot is locked behind a chain-link gate and big heavy chains." So I called my parents and got them to pick me up in Lexington -- an extra four miles or so of riding. Then the next day I rode from our house all the way to Arlington to pick up the car.

Mileage this week:

Tuesday	6.0	6.0
Wednesday	8.5	8.5
Thursday	8.5	12.0
Friday	20.8	5.5
Total	43.8	32.0	75.8

I seem to have found the limit of how much biking I can comfortably do in a week -- I'm still nursing my sore muscles. The funny thing is that I'm not accustomed to thinking of any of these days as a really long day of riding, and I've ridden 65 miles in a day before. Apparently when you're doing it every day it really does build up.