Dark. But I like DST so no complaints. 30F with mild winds - accumulating snow forecast for today and tomorrow but I'm reluctant to call what we get snow after seeing [MENTION=175954]Tundra_Man[/MENTION]'s pictures!

Painfully cold this morning! But with a bright full moon overhead, it was nice, in its wintery way, with the moonlight reflecting off the patches of snow and ice.

At least you had daylight! I guess your work doesn't start until 9 AM or so?

Sun was just starting to come up when I left the house at 7:30. Work officially started at 8, but I wound up arriving about 20 minutes late. Still beat most everyone else to the office as traffic was moving slow. These pictures were taken about 8:10.

Was pretty cold at 21F this morning. Was a nice ride with little to no traffic and no other crazy cyclists on the road. :) Tomorrow will be brutal with the snow storm. So I guess I'll need to take tomorrow and probably also Wed off the bike (knowing how good the plowing and train service can be around here). Maybe can break out the mag trainer in the basement to get some exercise in. But I'm sure that I'll be outside shoveling the snow at least three times tomorrow... :(

Well that must be nice. I have to leave at 6 AM on most days to make it to work in time to shower and change by 8 AM. So as of now I'll be in the dark for most of the morning commute until about late May or so.

It all depends where I'm working on a particular day. Today's client is just 4 miles from the house and doesn't have a shower available, so I shower at home before I leave. Normally leaving by 7:30 gives me plenty of time to get there by 8:00, but the snow this morning significantly slowed my pace.

Other clients of varying distances and facilities cause me to adjust my departure time accordingly.

If I'm working from our company's office which is 8 miles from home, then I'll leave around 6:45 and shower after I arrive. On those days I'm riding in the dark for much of the morning commute in the early spring and fall.

I should get two commutes in this week, maybe three.

My commute was a snowy ride along a series of bike trails. Oh, and it was scenic :thumb:

Cold. Wet. Dark.
Really just sprinkling, but it rained most of the night so the roads were plenty wet too. I made it in just fine I suppose.

Easy ride this morning. 13°F, tail wind, MUP had been plowed and the additional snow they said was possible overnight didn't materialize. Rode the winter bike because there's lots of ice on the ground.

Have to ride across town at 11 AM. Should still have a tailwind so that won't be too bad.

Have to ride home from the office fighting the wind. Not looking forward to that.

One for me if I'm lucky... yet again. I drove today, partly because I didn't want to ride in the cold. And partly because my e-bike parts arrive today, and the box is 35 pounds according to UPS tracking. :eek: :thumb:

Weather Underground was fibbing to me for once - not only was it raining, but it never let up. I stopped under the first bridge to put my shoe covers on, and my work shirt into the plastic bag. I still feel dumb for arriving soaked clothes in my bag, three years ago, when I had a bag in my pack and didn't use it, so I wasn't going to let that happen again.

Since I'm going slow and easy in this weather I got a little bored and counted deer. 16 total in five different groups, the biggest was half a dozen. I think they just like to run when it's cold drizzling rain.

Another faster, further, clockwise ride. Weather here is opposite of Northeast. Pretty nearly perfect.

Around 25F this morning, but the winds were much better than yesterday... and what wind there was provided a nice tailwind.

56F and the deluge abated to drizzle. Short sleeves under raincoat was great. Full-finger gloves overkill though.

Part of one feeder trail to the MUP is underwater.

Watching for migrating salamanders but no luck yet.

Here in the northeast, I don't think many people are riding their bikes today. We're in a major snow storm, and there are travel bans. Many workplaces and all schools are closed.

I got a flat tire on the way home today. Checking the outside of the tire, I found a construction staple. The staple came out cleanly and it was raining, so I decided to skip the usual formality of looking for pokey bits on the inside of the tire to get the job wrapped up quicker. As I got closer to home, the tire was starting to feel a bit soft again.

So when I got home I put the bike in the stand and found...two more staples!

I guess when I inflated the tube it must have pushed the staples to the side just right to avoid an immediate puncture. I rode about four miles with those things embedded in the tire and still had around 20 psi when I was done. Of course when I pulled them out it deflated like a balloon.

Cold and windy. I got spoiled by February's warmer mornings. My face was cold and the wind was not very friendly no matter which direction I was heading.

Was heading out the door when I noticed my son's science homework was still sitting on the counter. He'd left early for school for jazz band practice and forgot it. I decided to be a good dad and modify my normal route to work to swing by his school and drop it off in the office.

10°F with a light breeze. Streets were clear enough from the ice that I rode my hybrid without the studded tires.

As I pulled up to the door of the school, the resource Police officer came out the door. He's a friendly guy and opens the door and greets everyone. He looked at me in my bike gear and said, "Wow! You're a lot tougher than me. Back in the army you'd be the guy we all followed out of the plane during jump training!"

Errr... no. I'm afraid of heights. Winter cycling really isn't that tough.

Coldest morning I've had for a while. Around 20F with a windchill in the low teens, but overall not a bad commute.

It's still pretty mild in this non-winter we're having, although I got a chuckle about my son worried about the weather in Edmonton during his visit this week. Looking at the weather page, they're having the same temperatures that we are today, except that we'll be colder here overnight. :roflmao2:

Very brisk commute today. Starting temps were 32F, finishing temps were a mere 33F. Very windy. Usually when it is super cold out, it warms up a good 10+ degrees, but not today! I recently bought a pair of full length bibs for very cheap (LBS was going out of business, AND they are Cannondale brand, whose parent company has bought out Sugoi so the shop really wanted to get rid of them) and they worked out much better than the pair of cycling pants I had been using. The blocked the wind in all the right places. Only area I came up short was my toes.

I just haven't been feeling the commuting vibe lately. I'm sure I'll get it back, but I have other activities getting my attention - MTB, running, and once again road riding with a club. Today's ride did help get some of the soreness out of my legs from last nights running speed workout.

Now if I could just shake this cough I've had for the past month...

Much the same ride as yesterday. I've figured out I need to leave the house sooner to get to work on time - whether cycling or taking the boy to daycare, I need to be out the door by 7:15 to get here by 8. But it's hard to get all the morning chores done and disentangle myself from feeding the twin babies.

I have gotten a few pictures from my mom and there is a lot of snow in upstate/central NY.

Life has been good here other than a bout of hand, foot, and mouth disease for the littlest kid.

I have been keeping busy with my new teaching load. I have been switched around and given my own 8th grade class. Which means I have to teach them all of their core subjects; math, science, socials, and english. The math and science are easy, but I am not well versed in my verses of poetry! So lesson prep has kept me busy with those classes, at least we are in a rotation I am only teaching two of the four subjects at a time.

The morning rides have been nice, but I need to do a lot of maintenance on a few bikes.

Stay warm and dry.

Janitor in the locker room at closing time! :notamused:

[MENTION=190611]joeyduck[/MENTION] do you get to make your own selections for literature and poetry or do you have to pick from a curriculum?

I left the house a few minutes early this morning, figuring that the half mile section of gravel path, by the Delaware and Raritan Canal, would be impassible under Tuesday's icy snow. But the roads are clear enough, and I made good time, avoiding the foot wide patch of black ice along the edge. Got to the station, where I found the whole station, some 30 acres of car parking, sidewalks, train platform, etc, had been neatly plowed and shoveled. All except...

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the bike lockers. Why would anyone shovel out the bike lockers?

There was a guy warming up one of the large yellow earth moving machines they use for pushing around the mountains of snow on the parking lot; and I asked him if he had a snow shovel. No, he said, they lock all that stuff up at night. So I got out the biggest tool in the repair kit on my bike, and started chopping. Pain in the neck. One of the other commuters, waiting on the platform, came over to help, which I appreciated; but there really wasn't room enough for two people to work.

I didn't miss my train, but it was close.

My cheap rear light was dead this morning (and in the past 1/2 hr since I've been at work, it doesn't seem to be charging so it might be really dead) so I rode on the sidewalks but I only encountered two people; one person who was standing in a bus shelter and one walker who heard my studded tires and moved aside (we exchanged "Good morning") so I wasn't interfering with anyone.

The actual temperature was -13C/9F, the weathernetwork.com says that it "felt like" -20C/-4F, I thought it felt like -40, there must have been more humidity in the air than the past couple of mornings because it really felt cold on exposed skin of the face.

I have to start biking more and more now, spring will be coming (at these temperatures, it would still seem to be far off) and I have a big charity ride in September that I need to ensure that I am ready for. I know that it is a way off but I'm fretting about it already.

Have a great day everyone!

The winds that dominated Tuesday's and Wednesday's rides seem to have calmed down. This morning was probably as cold as any we've had this winter: 20F. Yesterday never warmed up over about 34F, but I think it should get up to 50 today.

I rode past one house that must have left their sprinklers on last night. Their sidewalk and driveway were solid ice. It came out in the road just a little too. I couldn't really see it, but I'm guessing their grass is covered in ice too.