This is so cool!

Carrie achieved her all-time best on "Farmers Bluff", 6.9 miles in 0:29:01 on an Expresso Bike.

Alright, I gotta admit, this has me hooked from the get-go. This would make an awesome addition to the exercise room in my new house. Only trouble is, it's $5,000. So for now I'll just use it at the gym. You ride this stationary bike with a big screen in front of it that makes it like you're actually riding outside (because it's cold and raining outside in real life) and you race your pacer or your ghost (you on past rides) and can push past other riders. You can race other people's ghosts too.

Today I did a short 7 miler along the bluffs overlooking the ocean. I passed by cows and sheep and had a mix of rolling countryside and winding sea-cliff roads. I passed my pacer on the first hill and stayed ahead of him the whole time. I'm not entirely sure how you change the pace of the pacer. I was much stronger than the other riders (not really people, just riders the computer throws in for fun) on the uphill but lacked majorly in the downhill. Mostly because you have to actually pedal downhill. It's not like in real life where you can tuck into an aerodynamic position and scream down the hill with next to no effort.

I am so excited about this machine. The problem is there's only one (there might be two, I didn't pay much attention, whatever it was, it was out of order) and it's in the teen room. So at certain times of the day, only teens can use it. I just happened to get in at a time they were in school. Maybe I'll have to add it to my morning routine.