im here with ya goooo weekend workers!! my ride home yesterday was well....read the thread i started, this morning it was chilly 47f wore a windbreaker and a headsock. now im at work bored and its windy as heck i really hope its a tail wind

i know this is late all you weekend workers but yea i worked this weekend too, i live in Johnson City Tennessee, and i found this forum actually today. I was looking at commuter pics for a while and i got so stoked about riding that when my girlfriend offered to give me a ride to work i said NO! i've been commuting for about a month now and its been an awesome experience tonight my ride home was the best that i have ever had i blasted up some hills and cruised down them and then when i got home i just felt refreshed, its cooling down here now and it was about 61 degrees F on the way and i cant afford the right clothes so i was wearing my shorts and a t shirt but i feel good! YEA COMMUTING!

Had a quick turn around between yesterday and today. Off at 11pm last night, back at 9am today. I'm not sure what it was, but I was booking it going in and coming home. Typically, I'll average around 15, but today I was pushing 20! No wind, no hills, no nothing. I'm not going to complain though. One more day until my Friday and I'm so looking forward to a nice fun ride on Tuesday.

58* this morning at 4:30 when I left for work. Short sleeve t-shirt made for some chilly down hills. But NOT A SINGLE CAR the entire 3 mile commute...pure bliss!

57* at 07:30 and left on new to me Trek 7.3FX. Rode 10.44 miles in 44 minutes and AVS was 14mph. Wore sweatshirt and shorts, and the ride was very nice. Almost no cars the entire way! This was first time commuting to my pt job, but I've commuted several times to my ft job.

had rough turn around got out of work last night at 1040 or so and then up this morning for a very chilly ride to work at about 51 degrees, good thing was that i only saw about 10 cars my whole 5 mile ride and i did it in about 15 minutes which is about ten minutes faster than i usually do. i felt good and then got wrecked at work (lots of customers) and the ride home wasnt so blissful. i love riding though it makes for a good day most of the time if im just enjoying the ride

I was in Johnson City not too long ago (May, I think) very nice little town, lots of hills. I had a beautiful ride in, again.

Fast & furious! :p 15-20MPH headwind blowing off Lake Champlain. Almost blew up chasing down a commuter on an older roadbike. He kept sprinting to catch cyclists in front of him, so that made it even harder. I caught him eventually (20+MPH into the headwind!), then we got mixed up in pedestrians and he put some ground between us because I couldn't pass the peds safely at speed. Got through the peds and matched his speed but then backed off about a half mile (and one hill) from work to cool down. He went another way shortly after that.

Pretty uneventful commute today... the sun was out, but still humid, and I felt like I was riding in a pressure cooker. But after 4 days of not riding, I needed it.

I'm so tired of sweating. Waiting for the brief autumn before we're plunged into yet another rainy period.

5C/41F, sunny, and no discernible wind this morning, making for a beautiful ride in. I got passed way too closely by a Toyota FJ Cruiser going just a little bit faster than me, so I reached out and gave it a nice little pat. I pushed myself maybe just a little too hard, especially considering I didn't ride at all on the long weekend. I had to spend a minute just catching my breath once I got to my destination.

0730, 13C/55F in Vancouver this morning. Roads still wet from rains the night before with a very very light drizzle. Did my cycle from west Richmond to downtown in 51 min. 50 seconds AVS 23.15 km/h or 14.3 mph - a good portion of which was uphill. Adjusted my seat a little more forward by about 1.5 cm and power application is MUCH better. Am surprised at how much a difference this makes. I also installed a set of trekking bars and this was my first commute with them.

Grats! It doesn't matter if others have a longer commute. You still rode further than all those people in their cars!

Yea BIKE Commuting! :)

Nice and quiet today, most of the ride featured a tailwind that matched my speed with temperatures that have dropped down into the low 70's. Nicest ride in a long time.

Nice tailwind meant I was able to easily cruise at 18-20 mph for much of my ride in to work this morning. Of course, I have a feeling the wind will be blowing the same way on the ride home, so I'll get a good workout. :-)

Did a little bike maintenance over the weekend and was able to mostly straighten out the big chainring on my bike (which had been bent a few weeks ago). I figured I was thinking of replacing the crankset anyway, so the worst I could do was permanently mess up the big chainring, which was already unusable anyway. Think I may have bought some more life for my drivetrain for the moment... i.e., more time to save up for either a better drive train and/or the Surly LHT I so lust after... :-)

Rained the whole way in. It hailed for part of the ride. That kind of hurt! It seemed to rain harder as I got closer to downtown. It cleared up and has been sunny skies since about 15 minutes after I got to work. I'm expecting it to start raining again about 10 minutes before I'm ready to leave ;)

Still better than driving!

well it was another early morning and i have been so tired latley, for some reason my thighs are always sore and going up hills seem to get harder and harder, i dont know what to do, i sleep 8 hours just to be sure i have enough energy but it doesnt seem to work. rough rough day for riding for me. if anyone has advice it would be greatly appreciated

Loving the weather. It was almost chilly enough that I almost went back in to grab a wind breaker.
Yesterday I rode to a 100K down the road from my house. I actually got to ride by bike right down the middle of US41 right past the Big Chicken If you are in GA you know what it is if not search "Big Chicken Marietta". They had 7 miles of US41 shut down for the 100k bike and 10k foot race. I also got to meet the poster child for helmets Rebecca Rae. Very sweet girl. Very nice person to be around.
Vid of the finish of the race in my blog in my sig.

Peanuts and Bananas to get some potassium in you to take care of the lactic acid. Take a day off every once in a while till you get your strength up and let your body recoup. A lot of the acid build it is due to cardio limitations. If you get to panting you are not able to provide enough O2 to the muscles and it causes a large amount of lactic acid to be produced. I find as I approach a hill I stat taking extra deep breaths almost hyper ventilating trying to get my O2 up some before I hit the hill. Seems to help in that on my regular routs I seem to be less out of breath when I crest the hills then when I don't do this.
More info: http://judoinfo.com/soreness.htm

Nice to be back to my usual commute these days. Lovely ride.

Back after an extended weekend break. Just a quick getaway down the C&O canal to Georgetown. It's a great town for cycling, it's all also a great place to get a feel for what it is like riding and stopping with other cyclists, and interacting with cars at the same time. It was a whirlwind getaway trying to do as much as possible in a few days, and time for rest of course. On two of those days we went down to D.C. cupcakes and the lines on both days were around the block, so no cupcakes on this trip. Ever since they got a spot on TV, you can't get near the place.

Lovely ride in, with a slight headwind.

We are having beautiful weather lately after a miserably hot and humid summer. It is still much hotter than usual but the humidity is lower and temps not as extreme. Saw a ninja mtn bike commuter on my way to work this morning. At 6:30 am, when it is nearly dark, he was wearing a dark jersey, black shorts and had no lights in front or rear, and no reflectors. The only reason I saw him was that he passed under a street light in my neighborhood, but I didn't see him again after that. Some people must have a death wish.

66F with a 20-25MPH headwind blowing off Lake Champlain. Somehow I slogged through it pretty quickly. Only saw one regular cyclist going the other way. She's pretty but always just stares straight ahead as we pass. :( I did catch one guy on an mountain bike right before I left the MUP.

Stopped to let a cute girl cross in a mid-block crosswalk, too. :o Just doing the right thing.
:innocent:

Warmer this morning around 65* at 07:15 which was nice. Saw three other cyclist on the road and light traffic conditions. Still fine tuning my gearing and cadence to get most out of pedal. Wish my cubicle at work was bigger to bring in my bike but I'm locking up on the loading dock.

Could have been better. This happened to my ACS single speed freewheel...

http://imgur.com/YFoMPl.jpg

http://imgur.com/kyDEYl.jpg

I had only actually used it for maybe a total of 5 days of commuting out of the year. Thankfully I could just flip the wheel around and continue on the fixed cog. Not terribly happy with this freewheel, seems pretty cheapo. All of the sudden, I had no drive and bearings were falling out all over the road.

Former glory...

http://imgur.com/wxc55l.jpg

7C/45F and cloudy, spitting a bit, but not enough to get wet.

The summer lull in traffic is definitely over. I switched to a new route during the summer which has been nice and quiet up until now. Starting this week, there's a constant stream of traffic that passes me while on the main roads.

Still hot. Why is it still so hot? On the way home this evening, it was 34C/93.2F without heat index, 41C/105.8F with. I could tell it was going to be a scorcher when I stepped outside this morning. Took it easy on the ride in, but took a pedaled hard and took a detour on the way home to work out some frustration.

College has started back up, so now I'm back to commuting after not doing it for about 3 months. I plan to do it everyday that I have class, which will be M, W, and F. Last semester I was just commuting by bike once a week or so, sometimes twice. Sometime soon I do need to find a different route to school that avoids Bay St.

For the ride in: First time commuting with the recumbent. 70F with wet roads and winds from the S @ 10mph. Light rain when I left the house, but it cleared up and the sun ended up coming out. Made decent time despite some pretty long traffic backups at two different lights because of road construction.

55F and rainy. Happy 1st day of school. Soooo great to have both kids in the same place, finally.

The commute back this evening was interesting. 74F and sunny with winds from the NNW @ 18mph. My bike refused to shift to the big chain ring on the crank, so I just had the small and middle chain rings to work with. I guess it's been a while since I've commuted because on one of the roads, I accidently tuned left at the wrong intersection. I knew my mistake right away and made a U-turn at the next light. Traffic was also a lot heavier then normal due to it being evening rush hour. At one of the lights, it took at least 10 min to get through because there was so much traffic, and the lights are very poorly timed. I'm kinda glad I'll only be riding late on Wednesdays. On Mon and Fri I'll be riding home a lot earlier. All in all, it was still a pretty good commute home.