How Was Your Commute Today?

[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.

[Sky King]

Happy to reinstate my "commute" Rolled the bikes out the front door, rode 13 miles and rolled them in the back door It could also be called an office meeting as the DH and I discussed business most of the ride. Very grateful to have the opportunity to ride to work and plan to do so a few times a week. Going to be over 100 degrees for the next five days so the morning commute is looking like the perfect option

[ak2outside]

I caught almost all the light green today. Took me less than a half hour for a nine mile commute. Awesome!

[ZenBiker]

The digital temp on the high school sign read 104 as I rode home tonight. Admittedly it runs a little high, catching heat off the building I think. But I'm catching heat off the road so we're even.

The morning ride is great, though. Temps are in the mid 60s lately and I can almost imagine a hint of fall

[shootingstar]

It was a nice break. I'm currently working from home because the electrical system is badly damaged at our work site building due to the major flood.

Cycled over to a meeting. Simple, peaceful. Met a bunch of employees stationed temporarily at a undamaged work site. They wondered how I got there by bike. It's only a 25 min. ride.