How Was Your Commute Today?

[azfiddle]

Yay- first two-way commute since the fall (I had 2 days when my husband needed our car and he dropped me off in the morning - I rode home. I really dislike getting up early in the dark and cold, and have to leave my house at 6:30 am to be at work and cleaned up by 7:30. So I basically skip commuting from November until late Feb or March, and then we have a 2 week break. It's still just once a week, usually Fridays, but I enjoy it, especially right now when the weather is perfect here.

[carlotta]

Today is the one of those days where everything comes together.... beautiful morning (55, sunny, calm), headed for 70-ish on the way home, and just dropped the bike for tune-up so it should ride like new on the way home (well maybe not that nice, but between a new chain/cassette/hub service, it will be a world of difference-- the winter chain was getting pretty rough and it needed the cassette last fall but I didn't feel like subjecting a new cassette to winter grime...)

Now if the pedestrians/dogs/roller bladers/small children would just stay inside on this beautiful afternoon and off the MUP, it'd be awesome

[redrhodie]

Yesterday was wet in the morning, just puddles, no rain, but cold and raw. Then it was supposed to be warm with a south wind (tail wind) for my ride back. Well that didn't happen. It stayed from the headwind direction, making it a real slog back. Not the best commute, but I earned brownie points for doing it.

I saw the fast group from my lbs's ride, and there were just 3 of them, so really not a great day for riding.

[Giulianna23]

My first commute to work for 2013 today...and I feel Greatt!!!.. My Old school 10 speed steel Schwinn was desperate to hit the roads. It used to take me almost 50-60 minutes to get to work when I first started commuting last year an each time I got to work or returned home , I was almost dead and soo freaking exhausted. I better my time and endurance a few months later so before the cold weather arrived I went down to 35-40 minutes one way ...thats for roughly 8 miles each way if I take the same route, but sometimes going back home I take the long way to score a few more miles so ussually the round trip is about 18-19 miles. Well ...today I made it to work in 28 minutes and not even pushing it ,just at my comfort pace...yay!!...Its unbelievable!. I feel so happy!! . I just wish it stops raining here in Indy... I just can't afford to ride in the rain...I am just coming out from a bad cold. At least it is going to be sunny and dry for the next 3 days..hopefully!

[Melalvai]

I could see my shadow in front of me. I stared at it, puzzled. Something was different. Then I noticed the breeze in my hair and the lightness of my head. For the first time in probably 7 years, I had forgotten my helmet and it had taken me half the trip to work to notice! (That's about 3 minutes.) I finished my commute and asked my husband to drop off my helmet when he was downtown running errands.

I haven't done that since around 2006.

[Owlie]

So I actually rode to school this morning. It was probably a little warm for the windbreaker, but I like it because it's traffic cone orange. I forgot water. (Oops.) I also forgot that while school and my apartment are at roughly the same elevation, there's a dip in the middle, and I could either take the long, shallow climb out or the steep one. The steep one is more dangerous, road-wise, so I took the shallow one. My legs are killing me, and I had to walk part of it. On my roadie with nothing on it, I probably would have been fine. I'm definitely not used to riding hills or carrying extra weight. Riding yesterday and not eating much didn't help, I don't think. Ah well. There was free breakfast afterward.


And today was the best "reason" to get a tablet ever--my laptop weighs a ton, and I'd rather ride with less backpack. I should probably get a rack and bungee cords.

[ak2outside]

My commute today was non-existant. There is a rather large forest fire and the smoke was incredibly thick. Too thick to ride and breathe. Darn it! I have logged 220 miles so far this month and was really trying to break 300. Group ride cancelled as well.