Didn't get a commute this morning, as yesterday was a 24 hour duty day, but today was awesome. I had my PRT (physical readyness test) for the Navy at noon today, and passed with flying colors (first time I've passed in 3 years!), running 1.5 miles in 10:36. Not bad for a guy of near 200lbs who runs only 3 miles a year.

The weather was incredible today for mid-October in Western Washington. 75 degrees & sunshine. Yesterday I was bored at work and I looked up a few different routes to work (all with bike lanes, yay!) and took a new route home that added about 4 miles to the trip, so 11.5 miles instead 7.2ish. I stopped at my LBS and picked up a new mobile pump (my other one I think has bad seals, it's been around for 25 years or so, used to be my dad's) and a set of Mr. Tuffy liners to carry with me tomorrow, just in case, or to put in on Saturday morning. Hopefully I won't have to do it until Saturday, because I really don't want a flat tomorrow morning. So far, so good on my patch job from yesterday. I got home and my front & rear were still @ 65psi. Not bad for my first time.

I got faster today, mainly because this route had only 2 traffic lights, and I caught both of them green. Averaged almost 15MPH (on a MTB with a lot of hills in my route). Not bad for only my third commute!