I've been going out for morning rides before work about 3 mornings per week. I've been doing about 10 miles each time, but this past Friday was the first ride out on my new Romulus (woo-woo) and I did a 15 mile ride to celebrate. A morning ride is the only time I can get any time in on the bike during the week - I work too late into the evening (and the trainer is sooo boring). Lucky for me, I can generally start work a bit later than most, around 10 am - the boss likes to quip "yeah, we have flexible hours, you can work your 80 hours/wk whenever you want". ( Joke's on him, I only work about a 60 hr week )

I didn't think I would like riding in the morning before work, but I'm really enjoying it. The paved bike path near where I live gets me off the road for the most part, away from the crazed 'late to drop junior off at school and get to work in time' crowd, and it has mile markers so I can get a rough idea of my average speed. I can do 12 mph without too much effort and I right now I'm trying to take it up to 15 mph for 3-4 mile streches. The area I'm riding right now is fairly flat, but as I gain some speed and stamina I'll add some hilly-er sections into the mix. It'll be nice when the sun starts coming up earlier, so I can get out earlier and lengthen my time out some - I'm really not up to riding before dawn.

I'm thinking of buying a cyclocomputer to keep track of my avg. speed and miles travelled - anyone have any suggestions? I'm perusing old posts here and checking out product reviews, but if you have one that your happy with, please share!

Happy holidays, - Jo.