I didn't have the guts to try bike commuting my first day at my new internship, which was monday. Monday and Tuesday, I took the commuter train. In total it takes about an hour to get to the train station, wait for the train, take the train, get from the train to work.

Today I rode in, and was thrilled to find out that it took me about the same amount of time. The commute is some 12.3 miles, with plenty of traffic lights and some big hills going up and down, but, I think, more down than up, on the way to work. I also think that the prevailing winds will have me riding tailwinds to work and headwinds home. It might take me as much as 90 minutes to get home. We'll see.

But I could buy a very nice new bike for the price of a few months of train passes and biking is so much more fun, so I'm really happy that, in terms of time budgeting, biking turns out to be a very reasonable option.