It was raining pretty good this morning, so I rode the bus (with the bike) to work. Hope the weather cooperates for the commute home.

Not bad. We had a steady stretch of nice weather which allowed me to string several commuting days together. It looks like I should have 300 miles this week, which makes up for the lack of riding earlier this month.

Wild ride home yesterday. I left early for a chiropractor appointment. It was just starting to rain when I got there and within an hour it was pouring, thunderstorms, tornado warnings. I ended up spending almost 2 hours at the doc's office waiting for it to calm down. When I did leave there was spotty flooding. There was one spot on the MUP (and it's a rail-trail so raised up) where the water was so deep it reached over my bottom bracket. This morning it's beautiful, sunny, and muggy.

[MENTION=322871]arsprod[/MENTION] - the Kokomo tornado was on the national news this morning. Scary stuff.

Good ride in this morning. Enjoying the sub-70 temps and low dew points.

Leveled a Starbucks - that's a national disaster!

Original plans were to go out for an extra-long bicycle ride by taking the long way to work this morning.

My son has a golf tournament this morning and needed to be dropped off at a course on the opposite end of the city a little after 7. My wife was going to handle taking him and picking him up afterwards. Right before I went to bed last night she was lamenting about having to get up early. She's a night owl and if she had her preference nothing in the world would start before noon. Anyway, in order to make her a little happier I volunteered to cancel my long ride and take my son to the course, seeing as I was planning to be up anyway. Then she could stay in bed and pick him up later when his tournament is over.

However I didn't want to wreck my streak of riding my bike to work, so I drove all the way across town, dropped my son off, drove all the way home and then hopped on the bike and rode to work. Surprisingly I made it to the office right on time.

Cooler riding in today. The river bottoms were downright cold. Glad I decided to wear long sleeves for the ride in. This afternoon should be breezy but nice temps. Dragging butt this morning after being up late playing hockey last night. Skipping work tomorrow to do a 4 hour kayak trip followed by trying out some trails on my mountain bike.

Muggy riding in this morning, glasses fogged up at every stop. With school back in the extra cars have made several intersections unpleasant. Hot and humid for the ride home. I need to find an alternate route that does not add too many miles.

Same here with the school thing. so much extra traffic right now. Minivans with huge thigh sized left arms showing through the driver's window. So many of them! Most have a cell phone attached to that side of pork.

Just a few sprinkles this morning and since it was raining very little wind. I've wanted a down pour for the last 3 days! I guess that's the key.

Way to score those brownie points. What a nice hubby!

It was a nice break, but we're back to the regularly scheduled humid mornings. I reckon it was still a good ride though.

Crazy!

Approaching a green light I notice a young lady on the cross street. She is zooming along, hanging on to a baby carriage in front, standing on a skateboard. She wasn't looking either right or left. I thought she was going to blow the light.

So I grabbed my brakes. No time to shift down. I manage to almost stop when she sees me and stops herself in the crosswalk. She yells at me to, "Go on!"

So I do. Grumbling because I had to stand on the pedals to get going. :(

I waited until after the rain stopped this morning, but the streets were still really wet. Even with fenders, there was quite a bit of splash from the tires... but it was a nice cool, albeit humid, morning.

There has been some road work along a short section of my route for the last month, although I can usually still get through on a bike. However, I decided to try a slightly different route today and cruised through the west bottoms. Found a new coffee shop... which is always a bonus!

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Sore this morning after the 5K Mayor's Run yesterday, still bothered by a sprained ankle. It only hurts when pedaling, which had me second-guessing my selection of the fixed gear this morning. :twitchy:

But it felt pretty good after I got going, and I think was therapeutic to some degree.

Nice. Took a 23 mile extendo-route (vs the 6-7 mile straightest possible route). Riding way out through the county w/ few/no intersections makes it a lot more like a nice bike ride (even though the cars are actually going faster) than an extreme sport. I guess while the cars are going faster they aren't jockeying for position to be first to the next stop light.

Another warm and wonderful day. :)

It was really nice to not have to drive with all of this today.

Air is grim though, fire on nearby army base artillery range and they can't put it out due to unexploded ordnance.

Had a real good week, commuting five straight, six if you count last Friday. Weather was solid until yesterday, when it decided to get muggy again. But the first few days were absolutely perfect: dry, 60 in the AM, mid-70's on the rides home at night. What's not to like?

Beautiful day, weather was great after a couple of days of Thunderstorms. Trails weren't dusty. Saw a Doe and yearling, ducks, hawks and a snake crossed my path. 32 mi RT.

Quite unpleasant.
While I was peacefully riding home, after a long workday, a donkey on a worthless 80.000€ SUV (worthless because he may have bought it, but he can't drive it if he's unable to pass a bicycle on a multiple lanes road) decided that the lane and the whole road were too small to contain his ridicolously enlarged ego, and started to annoyingly blow his horn, probably in an attempt to force me to disappear from his view.
Unfortunately for him, I graciously waved at him and took the lane.
He continued to blown his horn all the way long, until he discovered the existence of another lane and proceeded to pass me, insulting me, my parents and probably my ancestors, too. At the next traffic light, I noticed his rolled down windows and I called him by name, giving him an honest advice: "Donkey, learn the Road Code and get a compact car, since you can't drive properly the outrageously expensive SUV you bought". I then invited him to pull over after the intersection, in order to discuss the matter in a more personal, frank manner. But he unexpectedly declined and speeded away.

Sorry for the rant, but I'm kinda allergic to idiocy.

no worries, you're not alone, been there, done that. good to get it out of your system. have a cocktail on me. glad it ended peacefully

My commuting last week here in Bratislava, Slovakia:

ooh tight squeeze at about 10:22

Well I did not commute much last week due to having my grandson over the house from Wednesday to Friday.

So today was a very nice ride. It is dark at 5:30 when I left the house this am, though warm, the temp was 70f degrees. I took the direct route to work due to leaving a few minutes later than I would have liked.

Still wet from weekend rains but cooler and lower humidity. Anyone else noticing it's getting light later?