Great rides all week and today was no exception. Good company, good weather, good speed. Tomorrow will close two weeks of "no excuses" 5-day biking.

I had an amazing run on the way in this morning, almost 9 miles without hitting a red light! Never had that happen before, it was just some freaky combination of traffic density keeping the gates open plus a boosted rate of travel 'cause a fellow biker was hoovered onto my rear wheel.

I made two technical errors though that kept today from being a perfect 10. On the way in said cyclist went on through a yellow that I should have taken too. Instead I left a stripe, nearly locked 'em up to stop and it suprised me as much as it did her. Just the wrong split-second choice.

Then on the way home I had my first near-topple since I started riding clipless last week. Was going uphill through a slow-you-down gate on the multi-use-path, with two riders behind me and one coming towards. I got sloppy and too slow and had to YANK both feet out of the cleats to avoid falling. None too suave!

But damn, who else looks forward to going to work as much as the bike commuter?? Not many.