I've been back at it for several weeks now. Last week was the first time that I combined picking up my son and kiddie-seating him home from daycare (7.5 miles) to meet my other son coming home from kindergarten. Fun ride. It sure is hard to ride with a passenger with a deadline!

Today was gorgeous. Did the full 10mi R/T commute today and followed it with a 14+ mile R/T ride to church for a deacon's meeting tonight. I flew home, and raced a car and nearly caught them It was some teenagers giving me some friendly **** for blowing a completely empty late night red light, and I dropped it into first and cut through the headwind and raced to catch them all along the beach (Ocean Ave in West Haven). Had they caught this one light, I'd have had them. Fastest I've ever gone through there by far.

Seems like a relatively lazy summer off of my hight school teaching job and commute didn't take too long to work off once my commute started again. I feel great.

One thing that has made my bike/train/bike commute nicer is a switch from a 16" folder to a 26". Go figure.