This morning the odometer on my bike computer clicked over to 2000 miles total (still a bit shy in terms of pure commuter miles) for the year when I was about half a mile from work. Happy about my milestone.

First ride w/ anything strapped onto my "new" (new for me, that is) lowrider front rack. I have a bunch of extra dressier clothes here at work that I had brought in to wear for some meetings at my organization's recent membership conference. So I used my Topeak rack trunk/pannier set on the rear rack like I usually do, but tossed my two Axiom Lasalle panniers on the front to fill up and take everything home. Experiment successful so far. I was able to appreciate how even the weight of the mostly empty panniers up front seemed to add to the stability of the bike.

Still loving my new rigid fork, too. Oh man, what a nice change from the stock POS suspension fork I had!

All that plus another day of cooler AM temps than we've been having made for a wonderful morning. Another one of those days that make me wish my commute were 15 miles (or more) and not 7.