I'll be running! HA!! (ROTFLMAO) :eek::D (more like waddling and stumbling)Quote:
Originally Posted by kmehrzad
P - Yes, glaciers in the sun are totally gone. Glaciers shaded by those great big hemlocks are not.
Printable View
I'll be running! HA!! (ROTFLMAO) :eek::D (more like waddling and stumbling)Quote:
Originally Posted by kmehrzad
P - Yes, glaciers in the sun are totally gone. Glaciers shaded by those great big hemlocks are not.
I know how you feel. The 4 years I've been commuting, I've biked all through winter. I actually do ok during the coldest part and then it starts to get a little warmer and I go all "I don't wanna". This winter is different, maybe because we have this beautiful little heat wave! Most of February was ABOVE FREEZING and now it's March!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tri Girl
Not much longer, Tri Girl. We're nearly there!
I know about weather woes. We're supposed to have a 50% chance of rain tonight, so I drove.:(
and I have to decide if want to ride tommorrow or go to my club meeting. It's getting to be more like a marketing presentation, so i'm leaning towards riding , but then i'll miss my buds, as we're supposed to get another storm this weekend
7 running? Forget about icebergs because hell has frozen over!!! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by pfunk12
I just signed up for a 5K on April 1st. I thought an April Fool's Day run was appropriate! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by MDHillSlug
Help me, mamma! :eek:
My commute today was gorgeous!
The sun was just rising, the air was balmy and smelled so good. All my flowers are blooming and the daffodils were glowing in the diffuse pink sunlight. Birds were going nuts, singing like crazy.
The ride to the bus station was smooth. Very little traffic. Wheeled my bike into her bike locker, chatted with a neighbor who drove there to catch his bus.
The ride home was fairly dark, but again little traffic and balmy cool spring air. My brakes squealed like mad. The pads are old, so I figure it's time for some salmon Kool-Stops. To heck with trying to get the glaze off, I want new pretties!
Yep, gotta love spring commutes! :D
Glad I'm not drinking my coffee right now because I can't stop laughing. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by MDHillSlug
Hey 7 - instead of trying to shovel that iceberg so you can commute, maybe you can chop down the hemlocks so the sun isn't obstructed? ;) Kidding...I like trees.
back in the saddle (seat) today!
Note to self: Kenda Kwests don't like wet pavement
Fun, quick ride today! The nice city/parks people even cleaned the sand and rocks off of the bike path I take after last night's rain. They don't always do that, and it gets messy quick.
it had just sprinkled before i got on my bike so the street was wet. It was 50 degrees and light out! wooo!
Spring is springing.
wound up on the late train (as usual), still nit bad
Finished up a bunch of stuff and didn't want to do the other stuff, and I had a couple hours to kill so I went for a bike ride. The trail was a mess, and is now caked on my bike. It was beautiful. I kept peeling off layers until I was down to my bike shorts and the jersey I usually wear as an undershirt.
I meant to end up on Columbia College campus by 3:30 because that was when I was supposed to take the final exam for my online C++ class. The final is proctored, everything else is online. I miscalculated and barely made it. By the time I locked up & re-dressed I was a few minutes late, but that was ok.
I tried to upload pictures but I'm running into problems. Here's one of ducks that's on my blog (it comes out huge if I try to link it directly to here): http://www.kemenel.org/melalvai/?p=537
I think I need to break my circadian rythms from waking up so early the past years. Either that or find a longer route in. But I do like the earlier train better. Plus it gives some time in case of breakdown (i'm usualy on the next to last train in the morning
Oddly, no commute today. I'm trying to work from home, with mediocre success (my work computer went to sleep, foiling my efforts to access it, and now I have to wait for my coworkers to arrive so somebody can wake it up for me). How do you not get all distracted when you're at home and trying to work? There's so much else I have to do here, like go for a nice bike ride in the sunny, non-March-like weather.
Think about the deadlines/things that need to get done so you can do the things you want to. Most of the time, I haven't had to deal teh urge to ride , urge to go back to bed, yes, but urge to ride, no:)
I've been working at home for several months, just going to the lab when the rats or students need me once or twice a week for a couple hours. Sometimes I have to:Quote:
Originally Posted by kfergos
shut down facebook
shut down my email
shut down my instant messenger
shut down the web browser...unless I have to open it to look for something. But nothing else is open in it.
Music is nice sometimes, but sometimes I get distracted looking for songs I like.
Sometimes I do the housework first so I can focus on my work. Sometimes I find the housework all too easy to ignore. Sometimes I use the housework as a break after an hour or two of concentration.
As far as a tempting bike ride, I generally find somewhere to go during the day even if I have to dig for an excuse, because otherwise I get to the end of the day and feel awful, having sat in front of the computer for so many hours. By "go somewhere" I mean by bike, because I don't have a car at home. The places I go are: campus to check on the students or the rats, my daughter's school to pick her up on Wednesdays when Daddy has class (we meet at the car), the grocery store to get more bananas, my husband's campus to eat lunch with him, or other errands like the library, hardware store, natural foods store, etc. I generally ride 10-20 miles total, depending on how many errands I have to run that day.
Today is "Professional Development Day" which means there's no hurry to get to school and no particular reason to stay all day. I rode in after a leisurely morning.
Commute #2 for the year. Not Earth-Shattering, but better than none!
Still kinda shakey and have a big dent in my thigh.
woke up a little late, didn't want to ride because the weather forecast is wetness...
Rode anyway because it wasn't raining yet. it was a damp 38 degrees, it's been raining on and off all day but it looks like it will be at least not precipitating on my ride home !
It was a wonderful commute today. I'm back on the trail after being forced on the roads for weeks because of the snow. It's still dark when I start out but it's getting lighter so much earlier. Noticeable difference every day. About 60 degrees on the ride home. Nice but because of a headwind the entire way home, it was a little chilly but I won't complain.
:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by malkin
I'm back! :D
Rode in this a.m. - finally. First time since mid-January.
The big snowpiles are still there, shaded by the hemlocks, at the start of my ride. But I was able to ride around them (in the afternoon,when that grassy stretch is warm, it'll be a mud-fest, tho'. :o) for the most part. Did walk around a few sketchy sections. Saw other bike tire tracks in the sand...so others are riding, too (and I know I'm not the only one who relies on that stupid sidewalk to get out of the neighborhood).
In town, by some tennis courts, a big stand of bamboo had come down on top of the trail. I imagine it's the adjacent homeowners responsibility to clean it up?? It's their bamboo. I'm sure the county will take that stand, but given how overgrown and crazy this particular stand has always been, I don't foresee it getting cleared up for a while. Fortunately, now that I know, there are several work-arounds for me from which to choose.
Awesome! Glad to hear that you are back out there!! Now...how was your run yesterday? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
More like a trot. Still able to walk upright afterward, and I didn't kill myself. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by pfunk12
That's all good news! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
Instead of my usual 2 mile commute, today I had to go to Harvard for a meeting, which is 13 miles down the Minuteman Bikeway. Got to Alewife station and expected to ride down Mass Ave to Harvard, but saw a sign pointing to a bike route to Harvard and followed that. The route went along a path along Fresh Pond Parkway and then turned onto Vassal St and Brattle to Harvard Sq. Took me about an hour and 15 minutes.
how much time/distance are you doing? Walk + run or all run?Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
Treadmill: 30 minutes at 2.0 % incline with 1.5 minute run; 3.5 minute walk gave me 2.0 miles. I've been "upping" the run and shortening the walk every other workout. If I run half of it on the 1st, I'll be happy.Quote:
Originally Posted by MDHillSlug
For my bike commute home today, DH came to join me. Another adventure of chasing him through the mean streets on his high-zoot road bike, and me on my clunker commuter. :rolleyes:
Heading up my cursed sidewalk coming home (which DH had declared "nutty" when I met him) - he opted to sprint up the hill on the road. I said there's no way I'm doing that....and picked my way slowly up the hill and around snow banks. I walked it around that bog section by the hemlocks. By the time I got home, my front tire was flat. :mad: I picked up something on that sidewalk. Grrrr.....
Did my first post-crash ride today: 8.35 miles to the transit center on the Xtracycle. Cool and breezy, and I felt incredibly weak and slow, but I made it. Back on the horse!
:):):)Quote:
Originally Posted by kfergos
Good for you! Congrats.Quote:
Originally Posted by kfergos
I get off the train 3 stops early and walk the rest of the way. This gets me a mile to a mile and a half walk before work. Yesterday I saw this along the way. What is Rock Racing doing in downtown Oakland? :rolleyes: :cool:
Attagirl! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by kfergos
I've been playing around with my cell phone:
Coming in:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vuerRrNlUQI/S5...1_377735_n.jpg
You notice it says Colleges? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Colleges
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vuerRrNlUQI/S5..._6586321_n.jpg
Rolling down College ave:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vuerRrNlUQI/S5..._1299397_n.jpg\
Claremont Graduate University:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vuerRrNlUQI/S5..._4658289_n.jpg
The Sign say "let only the Thoughtful, eager, and reverent enter here" <ayeb I should take a detour?
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vuerRrNlUQI/S5..._5095012_n.jpg
Just in time!:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vuerRrNlUQI/S5...18_24272_n.jpg
Hey! No fair! You got spring! Green! No snow!
oh ok, you live in California. I guess that is fair ;)
Nice pics!
The last of the snow in my yard is gone as of today but there's still plenty around.Quote:
Originally Posted by lph
I've commuted in the last 3 days on my Xtracycle, since the normal bike is out of commission for an indefinite period of time. Riding that Xtracycle makes me feel like I'm just getting on a bike for the first time in years, it's so much heavier and harder to move. It is so much work, especially up all those famous Seattle hills, even if I'm crawling along at like 6 mph (which I am!). My legs are toast after only 61 miles ridden this week.
And I still have 20 miles home tonight, plus 22 mi each way to Bike Expo Saturday and Sunday! Riding the Xtracycle will sure get me buff...or kill me in the process. :p
I finally got to ride today. I was at a meeting in Philadelphia all week. I hoped to rent a bike while I was there, but I was not able to find the bike shop. Or perhaps I did and he had misinformed me about their hours. The hotel was 1.5 miles from the meeting and I walked when I could, but I overslept once and it was raining heavily the next morning. I won't melt but I didn't want to sit in the conference in wet clothes all day.
Anyway, today is windy, so it was slow going, and coming back was right when schools were letting out, and I passed both the high school and the junior high AND went through the university trying to get home, so THAT was also slow going. I need to be smarter about my route choice at 3:00. That's usually the best route except right then. I might have been better of on the main street, despite it being narrow and full of high school drivers.
I couldn't figure how to stuff 2lbs of Danish butter cookies in my panniers. so I opted to pass today. Plus I wanted to see how dark it is now in the morning
Okay, Fredwina...why are you stuffing 2 lbs of Danish butter cookies in your panniers? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Fredwina
Ok, commuters, I have a question about rain pants. I wore a pair for the first time today, and I didn't like them at all. They kept me dry, and I wasn't hot, but they pulled at my knees so much that my legs started to hurt.
The ones I have are the cheapest that REI sells, so maybe that's the problem. I just feel like they need to have a bit of give in the knees.
Does anyone have rain pants that are comfortable? Guess I'll go window shopping at TE.