Quote Originally Posted by Biciclista View Post
hey, am i the only commuter left?
rode to work today knowing full well it will be pouring for my return trip home.
Gosh, I totally fell off the TE wagon for a while there. Hi, everybody! I've missed ya'll.

Commuting these days is awesome yet humbling. Three days a week - Monday, Wednesday, Friday - I ride the 20-mile commute both ways. Two days a week - Tuesday, Thursday (obviously...) - I ride 8 miles to the transit station and take a bus the rest of the way. That's the ideal case. My AmeriCorps internship has so many exceptions and unusual things happening that no week has actually panned out like that yet. On Mondays I'm attacking hills and zooming along at 15 mph average; by Friday, no matter what my commute actually ends up looking like, my legs feel like Jell-o and I'm creeping along at like 13 mph. My average weekly mileage tends to be 150 to 165 miles.

I've been dropped off at work and picked up from work by car once since I started on January 20, which isn't an astounding record but still pretty decent. I am LOVING the balmy Seattle weather, and this winter particularly has been so nice I rode home in SHORTS a couple days in the last few weeks. I just got my first flat in over a year on the Burke-Gilman Trail in Kenmore by NE 153rd AVE (to be precise). I really didn't expect that on the bike path, and my stupid CO2 cartridge exploded instead of filling up my tire. Now I have a Road Morph pump that I trust will do the trick in the future.

That is all for now. Happy riding!