How Was Your Commute Today?

[shootingstar]

That's great obscura in cycling with the kids to school. Setting a good pace for life...for kids.

[BethG]

That's great obscura in cycling with the kids to school. Setting a good pace for life...for kids.

x2! Good for you for getting the kids biking to school!

[carlotta]

Crazy start to the ride home (and a reminder why I really shouldn't leave before 4 until the weather gets crappy and chases all the mid-day trail traffic away), but it was a really nice evening so took the long way home:

[HillSlugger]

My commuting has dwindled in the last few years as I've let my triathlon training take over my cycling. However, I was excited to commute to my new office since we would have access to nice showers in the fitness center (with towel service!) and I had scored one of the bike lockers. Here we are at the end of September and I've only commuted 5 times. Beyond that, I'm just not enjoying this commute (not sure why). I've decided I'm not worthy to have the bike locker and gave the key back today. Hopefully, a more regular bike commuter will make better use of the locker.

[Melalvai]

HillSlugger, glad you're having fun with the triathlon training. Someday commuting might become part of your life again, when it's the right time.
I'm working from home now, so not so much with the commuting. But I did bike to the library with my daughter last weekend when she was home visiting from college. (It's so weird to say that...it's just weird to have a college-age daughter!)

Unfortunately I've been driving a lot the past 2 weeks. We had just moved, and then I ran the car into a deer. Picking up the rental, test driving a bazillion cars, getting one car or another to the mechanic to be checked over, finally settling on one and getting it inspected, and returning the rental car. I have done so much driving just so we could keep driving! I have been interested in being a car-free family, but with our daughter just starting college and my husband starting a new job, this is not the right time for it.

Hopefully there will be more bicycle-errands in my near future and fewer car-errands, now that we have the car thing settled.

[GLC1968]

I've been good about getting in 1 or 2 commutes a week. It's about all that my schedule will allow right now but I hope to increase that as winter sets in and some of my other commitments lessen.

Yesterday I biked in and had a very nice ride. It was chilly and dry and I felt totally refreshed and alert by the time I got to work. The ride home...not so much. We've been having some horrible storms lately - torrential downpours (unusual for us), high winds, power outages, lightening (also unusual for us). I saw that thunderstorms were predicted at 50% at 7, so I figured I was fine leaving at 5:30. Ha.

It was raining lightly as I set up my bike but I figured it wasn't that bad and I wanted to get home. So I headed out and within a couple of minutes, it started to rain harder. And harder. And harder. At one point, I was stopped at a light (I hit just about every single one in my 6 mile commute!) and it was coming down so hard I could barely see even though I was standing still. When the light changed, I had to ride with just one hand so that I could shield the left side of my face from the sideways rain as I rode! I was wet. It was cold (though I didnt' care much about the cold). I didn't bring my garmin that day, so I don't know how long it took me but I'm sure I was out there MUCH longer than normal. The worst was where the storm drains couldn't keep up with the water flow and I had to bike through little lakes!

I was SO wet when I pulled up to our garage. I stripped off all my clothes in the garage and went upstairs naked to go take a shower. What an adventure! It certainly made me appreciate how lovely my commute is when its dry or only lightly raining!

[girlsubobscura]

@ GLC, It wasn't raining nearly that hard on my commute home yesterday, but I was also soaked enough to wish I could have done what you did when you got home. Alas, we have a detached garage