After almost a year of procrastination I finally did the ride to work that I had been planning. I live in Brooklyn and rode through the streets of Brooklyn on mostly bike routes, then over the Manhattan Bridge on the same path that I look out onto wistfully every day from the subway, and then straight up the streets of Manhattan to the Grand Central area.

I had done a test ride last year and it took slightly less than an hour. Today it took more like an hour and a half. The difference is that I did the test on a 17lb carbon road bike, but I rode today on my MTB with a 10lb Kryptonite NY chain attached and my laptop on my back. That plus my lack of conditioning. I'll have to look at a lighter bike, plus leave the chain at work since I don't otherwise use it. No way am I leaving my carbon on the street.

And the thing is, I didn't plan to ride today. I was awoken with a call from work at 5am, and while I was surfing the web to kill time before I needed to go in it just dawned on me that I should ride in. Besides, it's Good Friday and the office was going to be empty and nobody would notice that I'm in cruddy clothes.

Maybe I'll make this a regular Friday event.