How Was Your Commute Today?

[tangentgirl]

Got up, jumped out of bed with determination to ride to work today! Put on my bike clothes, got me some coffee & breakfast, went to my bike and - flat tire! No problem! Fixed the flat, opened the garage, started to ride out and found some strange substance seemingly coming from the sky? Wha? Is that rain? Surely just a little mist, I said, headed down the block, got around the corner and realized, nope, my glasses are covered with raindrops and I can't see without a windshield wiper. Came home, got dressed, jumped in the car, drove in. Boo. Rain through Wednesday.

[kiwi girl]

I came off my bike on the way home tonight.

Got my wheel caught in the tram tracks and just tipped over. I have a hole in my riding tights and a bit of a bruise but no real harm done. Except I came off directly across the road from my 'local'. If anybody saw me my pride will be the thing most hurt when I next go in for a drink on Friday night.

I generally avoid the square on the bike because of the tram tracks and because of the number of buses - particularly in the evening commute - but my regular route home is still cordoned off because of the severe damage to this building in the earthquake - just my luck to be affected by one of the very few road closures still in place

[e.e.cummings]

I have not posted in a while, I have just been doing my commute quietly every day. Then I received a birthday email from Team Estrogen and felt all warm and fuzzy! Thanks, TE!

My commute last week was the soggiest week so far - it rained EVERY day, sometimes it came down in sheets. It felt like the tail end of a hurricane. All the rain gear was out, the full nine yards - a person from work joked that even riding home, I was probably going to be drier than they would be walking to the metro with their umbrella. I don't mind rain that much when it is warmer. I even wore my sandals, it was mild enough for that. The nice thing is that the bike path is virtually abandoned when the weather is like that. The bad thing is that the rain and wind brings down more sticks and leaves on the path, it can get slippery.

The skies opened up this week, but I could feel the seasons click - have put away the sandals and shorts and am wearing shoes and longer pants. Must enjoy what is good about this season - cooler weather for riding and beautiful fall colours.

[Duck on Wheels]

Am camping in my sister(Trek420)'s spare room while on sabbatical in CA. Just a few more days of this visit, then back to Norway for 2 weeks. Today we biked to BART. I borrowed SIL's lovely rescued Giant (aka Cedar), now safely parked at BART's free valet parking. About to head home early today. Trek gets off early and will show me the reverse route home from BART (didn't have time this morning to stop and memorize how things would look on the way back). Next visit I'll have my own old Trek (aka Big Red) down from Sonoma, so should be doing lots of bike commuting this coming year.

[7rider]

So, I decided NOT to attend my Tuesday evening circuit class at the gym. I was just feeling ... blah. Not feeling the love.
While leaving the locker room, heading for my bike, I ran into a friend of mine - my old commuting partner who doesn't ride anymore since his near-fatal accident two and a half years ago. We chatted. He asked me if I was on my new bike. I was. He wanted to see it, so we walked down to the lower parking level to the lockers, where my bike is parked. (Terry doesn't ride anymore, but he'll talk non-stop about getting this bike or that bike.)
While down there, 4 biking friends showed up to get their bikes. It was a regular biker party at the lockers! They were all groovin' on my bike's fish stickers and the team sticker.
Twenty minutes of test rides, catching up, different ways to utterly geek out the bike and the body. It was pretty funny. I left feeling much better for blowing off my circuit class!

[Melalvai]

I've got early morning rats every day this week, so I get to ride with the downlow glow. It's like a warm orange glow of pride. There was a streak of pink across the sky, and the crescent moon was really bright, I could see the entire moon in fact. It's rough to get up so early again, but it's awfully pretty.

[Tri Girl]

FINALLY dragged my butt outta bed this morning to commute. Don't know why, but I've really been needing that extra hour of sleep the last couple weeks. Today was International Bike and Walk to School Day in the USA so we had a big thing at our school with the kids. Over 200 walked or rode their bikes to school (FAR more than the 20 or so that do it daily). Was exciting and gave away some gift cards, reflective backpacks and blinky lights in a raffle.