I had my first two "real clothes" commutes the past couple of days. I haven't been commuting the whole distance to work at all in the past 8 weeks (doctor's orders--bad knee and ankle) but for the past two days I had to go to a conference in DC so could commute just to the train station, which is only four or five miles from home. That was fun! It was kind of cool, in a dorky way, to just hop on my bike wearing my work clothes and screaming yellow jacket on top then switch off the jacket for a sweater at the train station. The first day I wore my commuter sandals and carried work shoes, but I didn't like having to carry around the shoes all day so yesterday I biked wearing work shoes. Not ideal (a bit slippery on the pedals) but I got there o.k.

Bad train station though--no bike parking at all so I had to lock up to a fence in someone's yard near the station.

Sarah