ahh... -8 perfect.
It's going to stay cold for the next couple days during which we'll get some snow. Then it'll warm up and i'll have to relive the horrible melting all over again.

Can you give yourself a bit of extra time and go light? A light day can help recovery. Although i myself have never managed to do that, maybe for a trip, but never an entire day.

I definitely have days like those. Luckily, while my work days are loooong, my work weeks are only 2 or 3 days long. I'm also having fewer and fewer days like this. For about the first two months of steady full-length commuting, my legs hurt every time I moved, every time I sat still, and most of the time when I lay down. I learned to listen to my body saying, "GIVE ME A REST DAY, DANGIT!"

Love the avatar, BTW.

Around 40F/4 or 5C calm, wet, and foggy. Nice riding, really. And probably more or less what we'll have all week. I believe I can hang with this. :D

I benefit a lot from Sundays off of the bike. When I can't, I try to trim back riding and hauling to a bare minimum for a few days to try to get the same. Sometimes, though, you just gotta keep truckin'...

After riding two days in the rain over the weekend and getting totally soaked, I decided to drive today. It wasn't raining, but still cloudy with wet roads and more rain forecasted. I'm tired out drying out wet shoes and cleaning off my bikes. The rest of the week looks much more promising weatherwise.

Nice ride this morning using my Niterider Minewt headlight for the first time. Since daylight savings time I have been riding to work in the dark in the morning using a "be seen" battery headlight. The output on the Minewt was awsome! Nice being able to see where you are going. I was even a few minutes faster on my 8 mile commute. At $105, the light is a great value too.

It was low 60's but very humid in Tampa this morning. My shirt was soaked through.

My carpool is temporarily suspended for the next 8 weeks, so it's back to a bike-train commute for me! I spent a couple of hours getting the winter crud out of my folder last night - soaked the chain in degreaser, scrubbed the chainring and the hub gear, swapped out the knobbies for regular tires, and in general tightened the bike up.

It sure was nice to be back on the 70psi tires!

Very nice today. Low 20s F, no wind, blue sky, sun just peeking over the Green Mountains and visible through the still-bare trees. I saw lots of geese flying north over Lake Champlain.

I'm not doing too badly, plodding along at 13 or 14MPH on my under-inflated studded snow tires, but I'm thinking about throwing the road tires on to get some speed. Trouble is, there's still ice to deal with in the morning, and I know I'd be tempting a blizzard if I swapped tires. :p

A very nice ride, 32 F (0 C) with no wind. It felt a little like a spring morning. This make a commute of 5 days with degrees at 30 F (-1 C) or above, snd that is a good sign of warmer weather.

Too many layers under the rain gear this morning. Arrived covered in sweat.

My free ride using the fitness center locker room is apparently over. They've realized I never signed up (they charge $8/month just to use a locker in this building; in my old building it was free) and are coming after me. I need to find another place to change and keep my gear.

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That sucks. I'm so lucky to have all the accommodations I need.

32 today. After the below zero rides of last week it was awfully nice. Anybody that can't ride in temps like that is a wuss without a doubt.

cold and wet. rain rain rain. My avg speed way down for today. But I didn't really notice anything while riding.

Took 7 yr old to school yesterday so he could make roostertails in mud puddles w/ his 20" bike. Good stuff.

I didn't ride my bike to work at all last week. I took Friday off and didn't get to ride then, either. But yesterday (Sunday), I took a fun ride with a couple of friends. We went about 20 moderately hilly miles, and I rode my fixed-gear bike. Boy, that thing gives me a workout! Slowing the bike down uses muscles that I don't use for pedaling, so I'm sore in unusual places. And I take all of this as a good sign.

Wet. And cool (50s).

Also expecting the ride to a Trails and Greenways Commission (City of Jacksonville, NC) to be wet and cool.

The good news is I'm okay with wet and cool. The bad news is that I'll be on more heavily traveled (by cars) roads and drivers here aren't known for their competency.

No commuting for a while. I went on a ski vacation last week and managed to sprain my knee. Hopefully I'll be back on the bike by the end of the week. Rest, Ice, Compression, and Extension for now.

well yesterday i test rode my commute to work. I was pleasantly surprised that even though it is longer than it was last year(i moved) it was alot easier for me than it was the last time i commuted. I've gotten alot stronger, and I thank my fixed gear for that. Tomorrow I will do the actual commute, can't wait.

First commute since last Friday. The weather last week just sucked!! Today's weather is great. Sunny and 50's and minimal wind. Tomorrow even better.

I'm took a totally new route (to avoid massive potholes on normal route) which added a mile and a half to the distance but took a minute off of my time. Not sure how to explain that one but its happened both times that I have done it. We shall see what happens tomorrow.

Cool, comfortable, I pushed it and left so late that I arrived on the platform with just enough time to fold my bike on the way in... I think I'll set the alarm clock earlier. This is supposed to _relieve_ stress!

I flew today. Until today I've commuted on either my Marin Larkspur or my Jamis Commuter 3.0. Today I rode to work and back home and back to work and back home again on my brand spanking new Novara Carema. Wow can that bike fly! I like it very, very much.:love:

It's so nice when you like your ride- congrats!

My commute was most pleasant. Wind in my face on the way in but it feels so good that it was about 40〫F
- felt downright tropical.

Wind at my back on the way home- that was real nice.

Gorgeous! About 65 degrees, hardly any wind, I took my time and enjoyed the Denver weather. I'm on nights, so the ride home in the morning will be cooler. Basically two sets of clothes.

Right around 40-ishF/4C all around the region this AM. Overnight rain had moved on east by 5:00 when I headed out, so everything was wet but not raining.

For some reason I came across all kinds of 'fraidy-cat drivers this trip. People literally stopping in the middle of the road for me to go when I'm already stopped and patiently waiting for them to clear by. I'm sure it's just a coincidence--more often than not, I (and I suppose any other cyclist) am just an impediment to be honked or yelled at, or otherwise treated like non-petroleum-burning scum (a category I am very happy to be in, BTW :D ).

My commute today? Canceled. Thick fog warning.

38*F, wore my spring clothes and had my best time this year so far. It was a little chilly but I was so stoked to see the speed and time I was making I didn't care.

Ride home suppose to be in the 50's, this is more like it!

Yet Another Sweet Commute. :) Upper 20s F. No wind. Blue sky. More V-formations of geese heading north.

I removed my Nokian W106 (studded) tires and put on my Continental Traffic tires last night. More of an all-terrain tread. Much smoother and nice & quiet. They're fat too, so they handle the packed granular snow patches better than the thinner Nokians.

Ran into a regular on a road bike heading the other way. He tried to deal with that granular snow, but eventually dismounted and walked. He commented about me having the right bike for it. I agreed. :D

Great weather for my ride this morning. About 46 degrees and I got the layering just right. The roads were still a little wet from the 4 consecutive days of rain we just had (which meant I got a wet butt) but not wet enough to be a problem. I felt like I made excellent time too.

Had a suicidal woman walk out in front of me when I was ~5' from her and closing. Hit the brakes and swerved behind her. She never broke stride and probably wasn't aware of me. I'm guessing she started celebrating St. Patrick's day early.

Second of the year and most probably the beginning of regular commuting from here to Oct/Nov.

Sweet ride, 22km, -4C, wind on port quarter. Got a good start at 0550 and was impressed how significantly fewer cars there were than last year's average departure time of @0610.

A lot of people use only their ears, not their eyes, to check for traffic. That works if the only moving vehicles are motor vehicles. For bikes, not so much. And she may have been wearing earphones. When I wear headphones, I look carefully and repeatedly. But no one asks me what I do.

Beautiful clear day, warming up, perfect. What stinks is that I had to drive :(.