After a very stupid 3 year hiatus of being trapped in WFH hell (I HATED WFH, it nearly cost me my sanity), I finally got back on the saddle this morning and rode my bike to my 100% in-office job downtown.

I've had the new job for several months now, so I'm not exactly sure what took me so long to get back in the bike commuting game, but part of it is that I have a stupidly easy/convenient one-seat train ride from my home up in Lincoln Square down to Chicago's loop. And even though getting out of the house everyday for the past 5 months has worked miracles on my mental health, something was still missing.

And that missing ingredient was the bike.

Within a minute of my first bike commute in over 3 years this morning, you couldn't have chiseled the smile off my face with a jackhammer!

Biking is life, life is biking.

Oh how I've dearly missed you old friend.


(And no, for me , just doing joy rides around my neighborhood on a lunch break or whatever is not the same thing at all. I NEED the destination. I NEED the structure of "you need to be at place X by time Y". For whatever reason, I find bike commuting a thousand times more satisfying than just riding my bike to ride it, or whatever)



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