Originally Posted by agarose2000

I'm tired of all the commute-racing business. I ride slowly and sedately to work because I don't want to build up a sweat, yet I sometimes see folks going all-out just to pull ahead of me.

All this commute-racing business to me just illustrates guys (mostly) with inflated but fragile egos who are unwilling to really see what they're capable of. Commuting is not a race, and to get self-validation from "winning" a commute is ridiculous. You're just picking the lowest-hanging fruit and telling yourself that you're a better man for it. And this is coming from me - I'm self-admittedly uber-competitive, sometimes to a fault.