Congratulations horatio! If you feel your route is too short, do what I do and add some extra mileage to the trip home. I ride about 12 miles to work, and about twice a week I extend my ride home out to about 20-25 miles.

Yesterday afternoon was a fantastic trip home. I had a slight headwind, but was feeling great so pushed it and ended up with an average over 18mph for 20 miles! On the hybrid!

This morning gave me great temps (about 60F/15C), with a 15-20mph headwind - just enough to make it a little bit slower and harder. Not that I mind, as it's all good for building fitness. I had a great experience with a very courteous road-worker through one of the office parks. He was cleaning the road with some sort of road-sweeper, but when he saw me coming up the hill he shut it down until I passed so that I didn't get a lungfull of dust. Whoever you are, thank you very much for making my morning more pleasant!