How Was Your Commute Today?

[colorisnt]

Exciting! A great opportunity to use that quick-stop they teach us, where you stand up slightly and push your butt back over your seat, to put more weight on your back wheel. That's funny that your paper & stats book helped.


What road is that?

On my commute home tonight, I learned something interesting. I started a new job this summer at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and I heard that osteopathic treatment can help TMJ. (I saw a lot of research posters on it too and it was pretty convincing.) I got manipulated this afternoon. My jaw feels so much looser. But the funny thing was, when I was biking home, I looked down for a moment and something was different. After a moment I figured out--it didn't hurt my neck to look down. I could even touch my chin to my chest and it didn't hurt. What was even funnier is I had never realized that that hurt, until it didn't.

I'm sold!

Its green meadows where it meets providence. Tmj is something my gp here is suggesting I look into.

[Melalvai]

Its green meadows where it meets providence. Tmj is something my gp here is suggesting I look into.

I was always surprised that intersection didn't have concrete barriers since all the other Providence intersections do. Kind of ruins that side road (Old Rt K is what it's called I think) which is otherwise a perfect alternative to Providence. I wonder if we could get them to cut a pathway through the concrete. It would keep cars from going straight there but allow bikes & wheelchairs access.

[lph]

Its green meadows where it meets providence.

This sounds like the lyrics to a Johnny Cash song

[Biciclista]

expected it to be much colder, so i was dressed too warm. Then tonight I will carry my heavy stuff back up the hill.

I'm back!

[malkin]

Welcome back!

[7rider]

Yes, welcome back, Mimi. I hope you had a good trip.

DH finished work early, and came into town to meet me to ride home with me this afternoon. Was nice to have company, and a fast wheel to ride going home!
Coming into our neighborhood, you go in one block to a stop sign, take a left, and we're a few streets in on the right. Everyone pretty much ignores the stop sign - motorists and cyclists alike - because the street off to the right is a dead end and rarely has cars coming out of it. Traffic from the left nearly always turns right at the street you're on, so folks just roll it. I usually roll it on my bike. I was telling DH that yesterday, I actually had to stop, because there was a car coming from my right, taking a left onto the street I was on. So, I stopped and put a foot down and waited. Meanwhile, a woman in a minivan came up behind me and tooted. It was strange, I told DH. It was the first time I ever got tooted at for NOT running a stop sign!

[redrhodie]

expected it to be much colder, so i was dressed too warm. Then tonight I will carry my heavy stuff back up the hill.

I'm back!

We're opposite twins. I was cold. Luckily, my new Ibex ribbed hoodie (on clearance) and Bo Peep hat arrived at my lbs, so I put them on for the last bit of my ride. Then I was too warm, but it was okay because the hoodie might be my favorite Ibex piece. Something about it is so perfect for me. The longer sleeve length and slack cut make it really comfy for work at the bench. The hat is totally cute, too, and fits nicely under a helmet.

Stopped at the lbs again on my way home to pick up some cod a fisherman friend left there for me. I feel like I've gone through some kind of New England cyclist's rite of passage, riding with cod. I suspect it was not the first fish from these waters to ride a bicycle. And they say fish don't need bikes.

[mudmucker]

Stopped at the lbs again on my way home to pick up some cod a fisherman friend left there for me. I feel like I've gone through some kind of New England cyclist's rite of passage, riding with cod. I suspect it was not the first fish from these waters to ride a bicycle. And they say fish don't need bikes.

Chuckle. Very cute.

[blackhillsbiker]

First frost this morning. Note to self: locate wool beanie for under helmet. Not enough frost (unfortunately) to cut down on the late afternoon gnat population.

Deb

[colorisnt]

I was always surprised that intersection didn't have concrete barriers since all the other Providence intersections do. Kind of ruins that side road (Old Rt K is what it's called I think) which is otherwise a perfect alternative to Providence. I wonder if we could get them to cut a pathway through the concrete. It would keep cars from going straight there but allow bikes & wheelchairs access.

Yeah, I take a side street near my house up to route K and then over. They haven't cut anything. It doesn't surprise me to see a barrier (it actually helps traffic). However, I just go up through the Regions lot and cross into the gas station. It gives me a good vantage point and is safe at 8 AM when there will never be a car in that parking lot haha. The other alternative is the cross walk at the TOP of the intersection which they are putting in. However, that would require me to take the trail up. between Route K and the road. I don't know if they will continue it past the intersection, if they do, I will take it up and down those hills.

That hill is my KILLER when I come home. It's a VERY long incline that starts at the intersection there and goes up and up and the last part of it HURTS if you don't use your core. I'm getting better, but I still need to stop for my lungs to recover somewhere along there.



Mimi,
Welcome back!

And lol LPH - it kinda does.

[Melalvai]

That hill is my KILLER when I come home. It's a VERY long incline that starts at the intersection there and goes up and up and the last part of it HURTS if you don't use your core. I'm getting better, but I still need to stop for my lungs to recover somewhere along there.

I know which hill you are talking about! There's no shame in a low gear. The hill on Old 63 (south of Stadium) is actually steeper, but not as long. My old commute involved Old 63 more often, so the Old Rt K hill was sort of a test for me, I could tell that I was getting stronger as that hill became less challenging, whereas my usual Old 63 hill was a daily thing so the change was too gradual to notice.

Today the sun is shining, it was slightly chilly in the morning and very beautiful when I went home for lunch, and for the first time this week I haven't had a crisis today. Yet. Well, I did forget my keys when I went home for lunch but that is merely an inconvenience, not a crisis.

[colorisnt]

The hill on old 63 is the devil and I ride it for "fun". I have been avoiding it lately because they are doing something to the road there right now. It is awful.

[Melalvai]

The hill on old 63 is the devil and I ride it for "fun". I have been avoiding it lately because they are doing something to the road there right now. It is awful.

I bet they're putting in the pedway they promised. It's part of the GetAbout project. They did bike lanes for that road north of Stadium, it's just the section south of Stadium before you get to the apartments that is narrow and curvy and hilly. During the public planning meetings about 3 years ago, I told them if they put a pedway there I wouldn't use it, because a pedway is just a glorified sidewalk. Maybe they figured since I moved away they could build it anyway.

[colorisnt]

I bet they're putting in the pedway they promised. It's part of the GetAbout project. They did bike lanes for that road north of Stadium, it's just the section south of Stadium before you get to the apartments that is narrow and curvy and hilly. During the public planning meetings about 3 years ago, I told them if they put a pedway there I wouldn't use it, because a pedway is just a glorified sidewalk. Maybe they figured since I moved away they could build it anyway.

Yeah, there is a sidewalk there part way now, but it is too narrow to ride on (not that I would anyhow), but a bike lane would be better.

[Tri Girl]

got ready to head to work this morning, but discovered a flat front tire. Once I *finally* had it changed, I was on my way (took a ridiculous amount of time because that blasted tire would not come off the rim).