Since I posted about my first commute here, I've been commuting part way by either carpooling with someone else or parking at a park and ride then biking the last 5-7 miles or so. My goal was to eventually ride all the way from my house (about 17 miles). The distance isn't what concerned me - it's the hills!

However I've been doing more hills and they've been getting easier, and I've been getting more comfortable in traffic so the few iffy roads that didn't have bike lanes didn't scare me any more. And... proud to say I actually did it today! I guesstimated it would take about an hour and a half and it ended up taking me 1:34, counting the part where I stopped to catch my breath up the first big hill.

Elevation along the route looks like this (as you can see, since I live on a big hill I have three hills to climb on the way home... gulp.):