TUESDAY:
good ride in in the morning. left fairly early and the temps were in the 70's. slowed up a little bit by a headwind, and a driver behind me was not wanting to pass even though I kept waving him around. other than that, great ride in.

after getting out of class I rode over to My Organic Market to get some food then went on my first long ride in a while. went through the tunnel at Lackawanna Street to the Greenbelt Metro station, which is the biggest fiasco of one-way streets, bus-only lanes, and pay-to-park exits I've ever tried to navigate on a bicycle. I seriously spent like 20 minutes just trying to get out of there. rode down to the US Government Agricultural Center for the first time, and rode around there for a little bit... it's a great place to ride... I'll definitely be back there on my next long ride. rode to Berwyn Heights via Cherrywood Lane and around Lake Artemesia back to Old Town through New Leanordtown (rode by my old apartment on the way), then back to campus and back home from there. great ride, slightly marred by the fact that I forgot the sunscreen and got a pretty crucial sunburn as a result.

WEDNESDAY:
another good, if slighly slower, morning ride in. it is hot as hell in Maryland these days, it was in the high 70's at 9 in the morning when I left. definitely remembered to wear sunscreen on this ride so my sunburn wasn't made any worse. was slowed up again by a slight headwind from the south, and was passed by car after car. other than that, good ride in.

got out and rode to the LBS to get some new brown and amber lenses for my glasses... they have to be ordered so it will be a few days. rode to my parents' house from there. WSSC is doing construction on Queens Chapel Road in University Park, and had part of the road blocked off. had to take an alternate route to go around it. other than that minor annoyance it was a very good ride back.

THURSDAY (today):
it's still hot here. 70s in the morning and a high of 93 in the afternoon. the ride in was from my parents house and I took the long way. the ride itself was somewhat sluggish (maybe the extra weight from some extra clothes I packed? maybe I was tired?). had to yell to get the attention of a Shuttle bus driver who was cutting me off in a traffic circle on campus, he stopped and I went on. other than that it was a pretty good commute in.

I was going to volunteer an hour at the co-op but after a slight drizzle while I was in class and predictions of thundershowers later (that never materialized) I decided to just head out. the commute back was also to my parents house and was much faster than the morning commute. had another driver cut me off in a different traffic circle... what is with Maryland drivers and traffic circles? he stopped and froze after I yelled but eventually kept going after it was clear that I wasn't going to go ahead of him. other than that, the commute back was fast and fun.