So, just to be contrary to what I've already said, yesterday I biked in on my regular commuter bike and shaved 10 minutes off my ride. It has always taken an hour on either road bike or mtb or whatever bike I'm on. I did it in 50 minutes, door to door. How did I do that? Well, I made an amazing number of traffic lights. In Brooklyn I stopped at 3 over a 5+ mile span. There must be about 30 lights between my house and the bridge and I only stopped at 3. Usually I stop at at least half, if not more. In fact, there are 5 lights between my house and Prospect Park, and usually I stop at ALL of them. Yesterday they were all green. Same thing at the other side of the park, where I only stopped at the three of them. I took it easy over the Manhattan Bridge with its uphill climb, and in Manhattan I also seemed to make all the lights up until I was on 1st Ave. 1st Ave has the lights staggered to keep traffic flowing at 25mph, so eventually you always have to stop. But even then I seemed to stop at fewer than usual.

Just good karma. Tomorrow it'll be bad again.