You might have had a tailwind. How was the ride home?Quote:
Originally Posted by GLC1968
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You might have had a tailwind. How was the ride home?Quote:
Originally Posted by GLC1968
The ride home was awesome, too! I actually timed it this time and biking takes me only 10 minutes longer than driving.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melalvai
I had plans to commute today as well but my back was too sore when I woke up. I think I might have over done it in Pilates last night. Oops.
Man, it was cold yesterday. I had on the wrong gloves and my fingers were freezing. It was pretty windy, too. I really had to force myself to ride, but as always, I'm glad I did it.
On the way home I outran a chasing dog. Nothing makes me faster than the sound of nails on pavement. It was a loose dog, but a man on the path was able to grab him until I got past, but then the dog broke free. If that guy hadn't been there to slow him down, it would have been an issue, so I was really lucky.
The rest of the ride was with a sweet tail wind, so everything ended well.
Yesterday, I think I lost 40 calories alone, just from minor stress of cycling in the dark to work with a headwind and wondering if I would hit an black ice patch somewhere.
Then later I heard there was freezing drizzle in morning...which melted off by the time I finished work. :)
Today was nicer but still at freezing. At least dry.
Yay- first two-way commute since the fall (I had 2 days when my husband needed our car and he dropped me off in the morning - I rode home. I really dislike getting up early in the dark and cold, and have to leave my house at 6:30 am to be at work and cleaned up by 7:30. So I basically skip commuting from November until late Feb or March, and then we have a 2 week break. It's still just once a week, usually Fridays, but I enjoy it, especially right now when the weather is perfect here.
Today is the one of those days where everything comes together.... beautiful morning (55, sunny, calm), headed for 70-ish on the way home, and just dropped the bike for tune-up so it should ride like new on the way home (well maybe not that nice, but between a new chain/cassette/hub service, it will be a world of difference-- the winter chain was getting pretty rough and it needed the cassette last fall but I didn't feel like subjecting a new cassette to winter grime...)
Now if the pedestrians/dogs/roller bladers/small children would just stay inside on this beautiful afternoon and off the MUP, it'd be awesome :)
Yesterday was wet in the morning, just puddles, no rain, but cold and raw. Then it was supposed to be warm with a south wind (tail wind) for my ride back. Well that didn't happen. It stayed from the headwind direction, making it a real slog back. Not the best commute, but I earned brownie points for doing it.
I saw the fast group from my lbs's ride, and there were just 3 of them, so really not a great day for riding.
My first commute to work for 2013 today...and I feel Greatt!!!.. My Old school 10 speed steel Schwinn was desperate to hit the roads. It used to take me almost 50-60 minutes to get to work when I first started commuting last year an each time I got to work or returned home , I was almost dead and soo freaking exhausted. I better my time and endurance a few months later so before the cold weather arrived I went down to 35-40 minutes one way ...thats for roughly 8 miles each way if I take the same route, but sometimes going back home I take the long way to score a few more miles so ussually the round trip is about 18-19 miles. Well ...today I made it to work in 28 minutes and not even pushing it ,just at my comfort pace...yay!!...Its unbelievable!. I feel so happy!! :). I just wish it stops raining here in Indy... I just can't afford to ride in the rain...I am just coming out from a bad cold. At least it is going to be sunny and dry for the next 3 days..hopefully!
I could see my shadow in front of me. I stared at it, puzzled. Something was different. Then I noticed the breeze in my hair and the lightness of my head. For the first time in probably 7 years, I had forgotten my helmet and it had taken me half the trip to work to notice! (That's about 3 minutes.) I finished my commute and asked my husband to drop off my helmet when he was downtown running errands.
I haven't done that since around 2006.
So I actually rode to school this morning. It was probably a little warm for the windbreaker, but I like it because it's traffic cone orange. I forgot water. (Oops.) I also forgot that while school and my apartment are at roughly the same elevation, there's a dip in the middle, and I could either take the long, shallow climb out or the steep one. The steep one is more dangerous, road-wise, so I took the shallow one. My legs are killing me, and I had to walk part of it. On my roadie with nothing on it, I probably would have been fine. I'm definitely not used to riding hills or carrying extra weight. Riding yesterday and not eating much didn't help, I don't think. Ah well. There was free breakfast afterward.
And today was the best "reason" to get a tablet ever--my laptop weighs a ton, and I'd rather ride with less backpack. I should probably get a rack and bungee cords.
My commute today was non-existant. There is a rather large forest fire and the smoke was incredibly thick. Too thick to ride and breathe. Darn it! I have logged 220 miles so far this month and was really trying to break 300. Group ride cancelled as well.:mad:
Happy to reinstate my "commute" Rolled the bikes out the front door, rode 13 miles and rolled them in the back door :) It could also be called an office meeting as the DH and I discussed business most of the ride. Very grateful to have the opportunity to ride to work and plan to do so a few times a week. Going to be over 100 degrees for the next five days so the morning commute is looking like the perfect option
I caught almost all the light green today. Took me less than a half hour for a nine mile commute. Awesome!
The digital temp on the high school sign read 104 as I rode home tonight. Admittedly it runs a little high, catching heat off the building I think. But I'm catching heat off the road so we're even.
The morning ride is great, though. Temps are in the mid 60s lately and I can almost imagine a hint of fall
It was a nice break. I'm currently working from home because the electrical system is badly damaged at our work site building due to the major flood.
Cycled over to a meeting. Simple, peaceful. Met a bunch of employees stationed temporarily at a undamaged work site. They wondered how I got there by bike. It's only a 25 min. ride.