Left at 8:00 sharp on the bike yesterday. Got to work at 8:40, through the metal detectors.

Left at 9:30 today in the car, showed up at work at 10:10, through the metal detectors.

40 minutes either way.

I need to go faster ... it's only 7 miles. If I leave 20 minutes earlier and get to work 10 minutes faster I can leave 20 minutes earlier and get home 10 minutes faster, and have a whole 40 minutes more free in the afternoon...

Plus I can pass myself off as a "foodie" for a while (I have just barely enough background knowledge on everything in the universe to pass myself off as anything; I've even discussed nuclear reactor design and quantum physics at length, at which point a coworker gave up), and eat bigger lunches while people wonder how I don't get fat.

I'm at parity with the car. I must go faster.