How Was Your Commute Today?

**jessmarimba** · 06-13-2011, 04:18 PM

Found out today that the ideal north-south road on my bike commute will be closed from next Monday until sometime in August. I have a week to find another good way to get to work.

And leave it to the DOT, they put the big flashing sign up completely blocking the bike lane. Parked in it, you could say.

**jessmarimba** · 06-15-2011, 07:02 AM

Woohoo! The best thing about being stuck behind a garbage truck is if the guy working the back is really cute and extremely friendly

Gonna have to remember to leave late on Wednesdays from now on.

**redrhodie** · 06-15-2011, 03:49 PM

Perfect commutes today. No complaints.

**RadicalEdward** · 06-15-2011, 04:16 PM

Goggles! That's what I'm missing!! :P
Chilly ride in this morning - we had an eclipse this morning (Blood moon!!) That I had hoped to get a good view of, left the house in a rush so that I'd have a good vantage point AND.. Cloudy.
No moon for Ed

But leaving in a rush also meant that I've left my keys at home - which has my locker key on it.
Thank goodness I had left clothes out throughout the week - I'm wearing a pair of week old jeans (pulled out yesterday to come home for a wash.. whoops), the "emergency stashed" undergarments, and the base layer I rode in - it was fresh this morning... and I don't THINK I smell too bad.......
BUT I have no make-up, jewellery, the only pair of shoes I have that don't live in my locker are the daggy ones, and I don't have a coat or a cardigan (unless you count my long sleeved jersey!)
Lesson learnt - leave a key at work.. they give you two for a reason

The ride was wonderful.. I'm finding my zen sooner and sooner as the weeks go past
Love it

**Kerry1976** · 06-16-2011, 10:55 AM

Finally got in a commute to work today. Loved it! Now hoping the storms (I don't care about rain, but do about lightning) hold off so I can get home safely when I leave this afternoon.

**redrhodie** · 06-16-2011, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by Kerry1976

Finally got in a commute to work today. Loved it! Now hoping the storms (I don't care about rain, but do about lightning) hold off so I can get home safely when I leave this afternoon.

I'm trying to decide whether to commute tomorrow, also due to forecast t-storms. Get home safe! Take a ride if you need to.

**blackhillsbiker** · 06-16-2011, 08:03 PM

Beautiful this morning. Wet coming home. I'm so glad to have my Kona back! The fenders sure are nice when it rains. I'm going to try to take the roadie tomorrow, weather permitting, so she can get fitted for new handlebars with a smaller reach.

Happy Friday, everyone,

Deb

**pfunk12** · 06-21-2011, 03:40 PM

I was on my way home tonight on the bike path and I was moving pretty good. I passed a guy and he yelled, "Hey! Your bike is faster than mine!" Definitely one of the funniest comments I have heard while commuting.

**jessmarimba** · 06-22-2011, 05:16 AM

I would like to stop in here and confess -

I am not riding my bike on Colorado's bike-to-work day.

Because I'm leaving it for my little brother to ride, should he choose to go anywhere today. (He's been at school in Seoul for a year and hasn't driven - and doesn't want to try until he's back home with his car.)

**RadicalEdward** · 06-22-2011, 04:14 PM

Wet and windy today - sinister headwind the entire way up "The Hill"
and with my luck it'll turn and I'll have a headwind home as well

**redrhodie** · 06-23-2011, 06:04 AM

Dry in the morning, rain in the afternoon. I tried wearing my rain jacket, but it's so soupy out, it was like a portable sauna. I ended up ditching it and riding in my ss wool jersey. So much better.

Can't remember the last time I drove to work.

**RadicalEdward** · 06-23-2011, 03:23 PM

-3.5 deg (Celcius) this morning when I left (25.7F)
Foggy - no issues with the cold once I got going, but the softshell just doesn't cut it for the additional moisture in the air!
Nearly froze solid when I arrived - should be sunny when I leave though, it'll be a wonderfully clear ride home

**7rider** · 06-23-2011, 04:26 PM

DH left work early today, so he was able to come and meet me at work and ride home with me. That was good for a couple of reasons. First, he wants to get a few rides in (at least 1!) before we do Saturday's time trial. Second, I couldn't get to the grocery store at lunch because I had to attend a meeting, so I didn't get to do the shopping I wanted to do. With DH around, we could stop at the store we pass on the way home, he could watch my bike (I don't carry a lock with me), and I could get the groceries after work.
And since I was all decked out in bike clothes, I wanted to take the tri bike out when I got home so I could see how the chain shifts on the wheels I just put on with a new cassette. So, we got to the house, DH brings the groceries upstairs, I swap my commuter shoes for my road shoes, grab the tri bike, and head back outside for a cruise around the neighborhood to work the chain through the gears. Halfway out, I see a familiar kit (my agency team kit - which I also happen to be wearing) standing on the side of the road, with a familiar bike - a recumbent - parked off the road on on the grass. It's my friend and co-worker, Mark. Thinking he was on the phone to his wife, reporting some mechanical problem, I pull over and say hello. He was grazing his way through a neighbor's mulberry tree.
"Getting my daily dose of antioxidants!" he said. The tree was thick with fruit in various stages of ripeness.
"This time of year," he explained, "I look like I just came from a voting station in Iraq." He turned his hands over to show his fingertips and nails stained deep purple.
So we chatted for a while - him handing me a handful of mulberries every so often, and then we departed...both in our matching team kits - him on a recumbent, me on a tri bike, both with fingers stained purple. We must have made quite a pair!

**blackhillsbiker** · 06-24-2011, 04:37 PM

Between yoga and some more tweaking the fit, the roadie and I are becoming much better friends. She seems so light and fast! I rode her yesterday and today. No back, neck or shoulder pain. I'm still smiling.

Deb

**Geonz** · 06-27-2011, 08:04 AM

We had some major storms blow in at 4:00 a.m. -- they abated just in time. Silly me still wore all the rain gear, so I got sweaty anyway. I think I would have steamed up just as much with Gore-Tex but I'll try that next timeand see; I wore my more traditional rain jacket instead because it has a hood...
I don't *really* like these 7:30 mornings but I love the Fridays off that are the payback, and I do like that I can run five minutes later, relatively speaking, 'cause there's just nobody on the road in a college town in the summer at 6:45 a.m.

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