haha... no... LOTS of gators in those waters. Next time, I'll get some photos of some. There is a restaurant to the left of that dock shot. People feed the gators there. So, around dinner time, the come wanting food. No gators in the pool, though ;-)

Wet today. It was raining hard when I got up, but when time came to get on the bike it seemed like it had stopped, so I chanced it.

Eh. It started up again as soon as I was on the road, and kept at it most of my ride. By the time I got to the station it had stopped again, but the front of my pants and the tops of my shoes are pretty wet. And the train is cold. Ugh.

Tom, I used a parking garage when I had to go to a training class downtown last year. I recall paying $6 for the day. Was a decent alternative since I didn't know if the training company (or the building mgmt) would let me bring my bike in. It turned out that it was ok to bring it in. So did that for the remaining three days and saved some $.

- Philippe

Some rain overnight and early this morning. I only felt a little sprinkle or two on my ride in though. Wet roads of course. After several wet rides the past 2 weeks, my bike is a dirty mess and could use a tune-up too. I can do the cleaning but would rather a shop do the tuning.

Wife suffered from migraine this morning but was going to work anyway. Drove her in, then continued on to my work place. No bike commute today but I'll try to get a bike ride in this evening (unless the freezing rain does show up).

Pretty nice morning for a commute. Sunny, 41°F with an 8 mph headwind. Ran 4 miles and then rode to work.

Looks like I'll finish the month with 283 commuting miles. Not my highest March ever, but decent. My current client assignment means my commute is shorter than it is other years. I'm at 738 total miles for the year, which is still 70 miles ahead of where I was on this day last year. So that's cool.

heh that got me to looking, and I'll have 291 commuting miles for March. Most likely that is my highest ever, but mostly because I had at least 60 extra miles from my new e-bike that I wouldn't have commuted to work otherwise.

Ride this morning was okay. I decided since the e-bike is so much faster that I could leave later, so I left at 6:30 instead of 6. Slightly more traffic, but also more daylight which was nice. Had one guy not fully change lanes to pass (same state trooper I've had issues with before) and another person passing right in front of an oncoming car.

That's a great reminder. I wouldn't want to pay that regularly, but it's good to have it as a possibility. If I go to midtown hoping to find a willing garage, I'm willing to deal with failure and then locking. My chances of finding a garage are pretty good. Thanks!

51F and rain. The ride home yesterday was one my scariest on-bike moments. When I left it was clouding up but almost 70 and radar was mostly clear. Shortly after getting on the main MUP I started hearing thunder but still no big deal. As I got close to one of the most open spots of my commute I started hearing a loud droning roar. Looking to the west (my left) I saw what looked like rain but didn't think that was the source of the noise. It was, and it wasn't rain - it was sideways hail.

When it hit the wind immediately went from zero to 20+, the temp dropped at least 10 degrees, and the hail was wicked. I've been in hailstorms before but this sucked. I was screaming like a little girl (sorry for the sexist reference) and what made it worse was there was nowhere to get out of it. I have welts (still) on my left side shoulder and torso. I was able to keep my face out by pointing my helmet into the wind. It probably lasted no more than a couple minutes but was terrifying. I hope never to do that again!

my rides have been really good, i've had two incidents this year that i'd rather forget, but for the most part it's been great. beautiful desolate mornings. vibrant lively afternoons. perfect ride days.

i have gotten paddling gloves from MEC (canadian equivalent of REI) - and they work like a charm in the rain. good grip, neoprene keeps it all warm, and fingers for dexterity. highly recommend it.

using the cycliq to report unsafe people out there. to NYC's 311 and the like. probably nothing comes of it. but one day hope the footage will be more available/seen/used.

It was wetter than I expected this morning, with standing water on the streets. I'd taken the road bike - without fenders - so I didn't want to deal with the Greenway. It's not the water so much as the mud and other debris that gets thrown up with it, and there tends to be a lot of it on the Greenway after overnight rains so I took to the streets instead. The upside is that the clouds of yellow-green pine pollen have been temporarily washed from the air.

Uneventful, except that I need to do that route more often, to train some newer drivers on the commute on dealing with bikes. No big deal, but I habitually establish a position approaching an intersection and one SUV wanted to passive-aggressively contest it. Creeping up faster than necessary, drifting over, that sort of thing, so I shot past (it was well back from the intersection) and established in the lane in front through the intersection and then scooted over. After they see that it's pointless and doesn't slow them down any they tend to stop doing that.

[MENTION=322871]arsprod[/MENTION] Jesus wept!

Windy here today. This morning it's a gentle tail wind... this afternoon it will grow to a brutish headwind. At least the sun is shining!

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34F, bright!

Got completely soaked this morning getting to work. Heavy rain. 40+ km/h headwind. WTF!:mad:

Got less wet on the way home, but still wet. Wind was supposed to be at my back, but didn't feel like helped nearly as much as it hurt this morning. WTF??:mad::mad:

Our Friday lunch bunch met close enough that I could ride to the taqueria, too. Basically slogged through the wind there and coasted back.

I think that is the preferred order to ride to get tacos, headwind-tacos-tailwind.

The idea of pushing after tacos is terrifying.

The wind backed off for the ride home. I didn't mention this morning there was someone on the pedestrian overpass of US 50 making a chalk mural. This afternoon, the finished product. I think it's fish? More vibrant in person.

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Overtime at work, yuck, don't want to be here. At least I'm alone in the office (for now) so I can pump the tunes.

My phone said it was -4C/25F, but TheWeatherNetwork says it was 0C/32F, no wonder I was sweating, I was overdressed (plus the sun was beating on my face most of the way). No tights or jacket on the way home though.

The ride in was okay due to having icy roads in more places than I expected. Though after tomorrow the snow should be all gone and then hopefully no more icy roads due to snow melt.

Dry road, calm, 4*C. Rather ideal for a first week of April commute. I'm full of anticipation for the good weather ahead of us.

Nice cool morning, -1C/30F, but overcast.

Forecast for a heavy rain this evening and night and into tomorrow so it will be a cold, wet ride in tomorrow morning, 3C/37F but because I've committed to #30DaysOfBiking, I'll have to just grin and bear it. Every fall and spring, I look at bike clothing sites with the idea of purchasing some rain pants for this type of cold rain but I have yet to make the purchase.

Have a great day everyone!

Terrible ride home Friday. I decided to take my old route home just to change it up. Big mistake. Much more traffic to deal with than my regular route, and more hilly which means my e-bike battery was pretty dead about a mile or so from home. There's also bike lanes near the office (none on my regular route), and because I used the bike lane instead of the travel lane, this happened. Never again.

Very foggy this morning. Went for a run before work. Had a near catastrophe when I tripped on an uneven piece of sidewalk I missed in the fog and dark, even though I run with a light. Closest I've been to going face first into the concrete in a long, long time. Somehow I managed to stay on my feet, although the awkward flailing of my arms and legs tweaked the muscles and joint of my right knee a bit. Thankfully I pushed through it and the pain settled down after about 1/4 mile.

Still foggy for the ride to work. Took the road bike even though there's a 20% chance of rain. Temp was in the mid-40s and the wind was light. Actually was a fairly pleasant ride.

Late start today, couldn't find my headphones and gave up looking. Roads very wet from overnight rain and thunderstorms forecast for this afternoon. Mid 50's makes it tolerable! I remember last year complaining about being wet every day - deja vu all over again

What the heck was the driving thinking? Not thinking I guess. This is when I find a mirror helpful, where I can see the vehicle coming up behind me, and if I see a right signal I anticipate a possible right hook.

Glad you were prepared for it. I might have turned into the parking lot to give the driver a piece of my mind...but then again I live in Canada.:D

He turned onto another road, actually. And I do have a mirror, which is how I knew what was about to happen, and was able to slow slightly so as to not hit the car. I just didn't have enough time to react when I saw his turn signal in the mirror. A second or two earlier and I would have moved left to the travel lane, and that never would have happened.

[MENTION=322871]arsprod[/MENTION] - Harrowing! I can only remember getting caught in hail once. I got under a parked semi-truck trailer and waited it out.

Cloudy and feels like rain coming. Forecast says it will be here by 1pm and stay for the rest of the day. Wet ride home unless it is stormy and the wife rescues me.

I dropped my bike at the local shop for a tune up on Friday evening. I thought for sure I'd be able to get it back on Saturday or Sunday. But no, mechanic said there's a couple ahead of me and he is off on Sunday and Monday. So I pulled down the old bike, aired up the tires, lubed the chain, adjusted the seat, and rode it in this morning. Riding it reminded me why I bought a new one. Oh well, at least it was there and rideable.

30F, dry (no standing water!), bright

[MENTION=301784]PatrickGSR94[/MENTION], good reflexes, good response. And good that you took responsibility for your part, even though it was the motorist's fault. Lessons learned.

Early bird registration opened for May Is Bike Month in Sacramento. National bike to work day is 5/19... which is my Friday off :-p