How Was Your Commute Today?

**HillSlugger** · 03-09-2010, 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by 7rider

More like a trot. Still able to walk upright afterward, and I didn't kill myself.

how much time/distance are you doing? Walk + run or all run?

**7rider** · 03-09-2010, 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by MDHillSlug

how much time/distance are you doing? Walk + run or all run?

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.

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.

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.

I picked up something on that sidewalk. Grrrr.....

**kfergos** · 03-10-2010, 08:25 AM

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!

**Fredwina** · 03-10-2010, 09:19 AM

Originally Posted by kfergos

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!

**7rider** · 03-10-2010, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by kfergos

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!

Good for you! Congrats.

**Trek420** · 03-10-2010, 12:13 PM

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?

**lph** · 03-10-2010, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by kfergos

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!

Attagirl!

**Fredwina** · 03-11-2010, 08:40 PM

I've been playing around with my cell phone:
Coming in:

You notice it says Colleges? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Colleges

Rolling down College ave:

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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?

Just in time!:

**lph** · 03-12-2010, 01:03 AM

Hey! No fair! You got spring! Green! No snow!

oh ok, you live in California. I guess that is fair

Nice pics!

**HillSlugger** · 03-12-2010, 07:58 AM

Originally Posted by lph

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.

**kfergos** · 03-12-2010, 08:17 AM

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.

**Melalvai** · 03-15-2010, 03:47 PM

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.

**Fredwina** · 03-15-2010, 04:03 PM

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

**pfunk12** · 03-15-2010, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by Fredwina

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?

**divingbiker** · 03-15-2010, 04:38 PM

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.

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