Did 20 home yesterday. It was a really nice day, and lots of cyclists out, I was very nice to them all, dispite their lack of awareness on the trails. One lady was overtaking a runner and I broke hard to give her room cuz she didn't know I was coming. Then at the last second (after she had already pulled out and would have cut me off if I hadn't seen it coming said "oh i'm so sorry" I smiled and said "it's alright, your fine, I'm just glad to see more people on bikes" It made me feel really good.

Then I was almost to my house and I cross over a pedestrian bridge. Long before I reached it I saw two ladies walking dogs who were going to reach the bottom first. In classic pedistrain iodicy they took up the entire width of the bridge, and dispite my yelling, loud whistling and calling out to them, didn't notice me untill I was about 5 feet from them. Then did the typical ped panic and actually got their dog leashes wrapped around themselves, caused me to unclip part way up the ramp, and in to high a gear to start up from a dead stop, then gave me a nasty look and made comments as I walked by pushing my bike and shaking my head. It was all I could do not to chew their asses. But I'm trying to be a nice cyclist :-)

Ride in this morning was short, my wife and I went shopping for new shoes for our Vegas trip this weekend, that and a trip to the mall for a new phone charger got us home kinda late and I just set my alarm in time to take the shorter route. The company I work for had a tent set up close to work with fruit, granola bars, gatorade and juice, "guess the gas price next year" game, free raffle for cheezy bike prizes, and friendly faces. Funny, i've never SEEN so many people biking to work in the 2 years i've been riding! They must have smelled free stuff! Also funny that just yesterday I was trying to look up what the company was doing for bike to work week this year, and couldn't find anything...must have missed the memo.

Lastly, the shower room I use (have yet to see more than about 1 guy a week using it besides me this year) was FULL when i got there, and had 2 people waiting to use the 3 showers when I left! I dubbed today "trendy people ride their bikes to work day".

I'm gonna miss the ride of silence here, but I'll be there in spirit.