A less than stellar ride today. Woke up to find that my wife took my contact lenses by mistake. Now I get to ride in the sun with my old scratched up glasses... As I'm prepping my son to get out the door, I can't find his helmet. My wife forgot to bring it home yesterday. Well, now I'm the dad who lets his son ride without a helmet while I wear one.... As we're about to pull away from a stoplight, some redneck comes running down the street yelling "Get out of my way you f****ts!" This just really pisses me off. It's one thing to insult me, but now this guy has insulted my 5yo! I'm really regretting those straps holding my frame pump tight on my bike... We get going again and we come up to a stop sign with a crosswalk next to it. No less than 7 cars stopped to let me use the crosswalk. All of you please surrender your licence, walk home and review the motor vehicle act before I will return them. Riding in the crosswalk is expressly prohibited by the motor vehicle and carries a $109 fine. After the fourth or fifth car, I was getting tired of pointing to my stop sign and trying to convince them to stop waiting for me...

My commute did get better when I dropped my son off and he started insisting on going further saying our ride was too short. I told him to bring his helmet home and we'll go for a ride tonight. I then headed off with the empty trail-a-bike and started the climb to work. At the top of the mountain, I got passed by a roadie and was reminded just how heavy that TAB is... I could easily hang on on the flats and short downhills, but anytime the road turned up, I kept losing ground. I pulled in to work thinking it was a less than stellar commute, but still better than any of the days I drove in by car.